This is a stunning stand-alone novel from the master of suspense. A compelling story of survival and betrayal set in a world after the epidemic isolated from the rest of the world, Denise has been driving a beat-up truck filled with essential information through a desolate land. She is among the few in Africa and the world as far as she knows, to have survived a devastating epidemic which has swept through the world. But as her car crash, and she meets Julian Bastoné, her life will change to the worse. Much worse.