This book is out of print. Alt Cover ISBN 13: 9780991957101 Overpopulation throttles the world’s food supply. In 2050, the government of the Americas introduces the Food Crisis Act—new measures that create a system for growing and rationing food. Calla Ryan is pretty much your average teen, except for enduring hunger every day of her life. One morning, new sensors at her high school determine that she exceeds the weight limit of the State, and they send her north to a “fat camp” or re-education centre. Calla begins to realize the centre holds many secrets. Her counsellor dies mysteriously, and new shipments of recruits are the picture of health. Finally, Calla becomes a guinea pig for a dangerous lab experiment. On the outside, a virus that began overseas has now made its way to the Americas with deadly consequences. Calla must run from her captors, escaping to the far north with help from the facility’s chef and fellow inmates Billy and Madge. And to complicate things, the infected are very hungry.

Calla Ryan, has survived the raids of infected and the scientific experiments. The infected have all but died out, but the virus has now spread to birds and wildlife, threatening food-stores and the safety of the village. When mad scientist Dieter Baxman locates Calla, living with the Mohawk people in their northern village, she must run for her life. Calla discovers that her ancestry is complicated, beginning with a mysterious Mohawk maiden and through several generations up until the 22nd century. Calla harnesses a mysterious power, and she begins to realise, she is not the only one.