No amount of training could prepare Ellie for the Earth-shattering discovery of a group of survivors that have been living outside the city walls for generations. Their secret to success is just as the ability to control the raging virus within them and use it to their advantage to avoid the man-eaters that plague the land. Ellie is skeptical of their claims, even when seeing the proof firsthand. She can’t shake the feeling that there are even more secrets to be uncovered in the origins of this mysterious group. Ellie’s moral compass is put to the test once again as a monumental choice is given to the last people on collaborate with this new group and evolve into the next stage of human development, or be left behind biologically and fade into extinction. Will Ellie make the right decision when she is given the reigns of fate for humanity? Her last and only options are to be the infamous curse that destroys the world or become the cure people desperately need.