"You better come home - People are dying"
When Anna went to class that morning, she had no way of knowing the world was about to end.
Now, with almost everyone in Eugene dead from some kind of mysterious infection, and all communications cut off, all she wants is to get back home. But how? A thousand miles of post-apocalyptic wasteland lies between her and the world she left behind, between her and everyone she's ever loved. Are they even still alive?
Determined to get back home, even if it means walking a thousand miles, Anna sets out, undaunted by what lies ahead. She has no way of knowing what the future has in store, but she knows it can't be as bad as the recent past - or can it?
"Anna provides readers with a sympathetic, resilient hero (one of several, it turns out) weighing options of how to continue in a world that is much changed and, potentially, has no future in it for humankind. By the cliffhanger ending, the stakes on everything have been raised."-Kirkus reviews