Death, blindness, and chaos-this is the reality that the 22-year-old military subcontracted courier, Gavin Marksdon, awakens to discover. It's been nearly six months since a meteor storm pummeled one of the largest cities in America, causing a mysterious plague to spread throughout the world. The unknown bacterium is saturating every living organism with a contamination level that is bringing all civilization to a halt-technology and organic life are both struggling to survive. Gavin regains consciousness in total darkness. He is recovering from a grievous wound received by a meteor fragment, and learns there is a tangled web of his own government's knowledge-deceit as well as a war-that has raged for countless eons from beyond Earth. While battling powerful changes to his physical form, Gavin and his handful of allies, find themselves on an expedition that holds the balance of their world-a world wavering between a dark evil, and a new light. Journeying their way through a devastated, post-apocalyptic America to find and save Gavin's 13-year-old sister, Lenora, they stumble on a deeper conspiracy of a global alien presence, and their own government's betrayal.