When Ruby woke on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that saw her sent to Thurmond, a government rehabilitation camp. Ruby might have survived the mysterious disease killed most of America’s children, but she and the others had emerged with something far worse, frightening abilities they could not control.
Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.
When her secret is revealed, Ruby risks her life to escape Thurmond and find East River, the only safe haven left for kids like her. But things at East River are not as they first seem. And Ruby soon discovers other forces are at work - people who will stop at nothing to use her and the others in their fight against the government.
Soon Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice - how ruthless is she willing to be to save everyone she loves?