Wind whipped my hair back as I jumped over the little creek and stumbled into the cornfield. The broken ends of the cornstalks cut my dress, my skin as I ran. I smelled the stench of blood and rotting flesh. The stench of death. I could hear their groaning, their moaning and panting. I could hear my heart that was galloping in my chest. I could hear the screams. The desperate screams of dying people. What starts out as a normal school day, becomes a horror spree, as a group of teenagers and a teacher escape the high school. Chased by panic and the nightmarish creatures that hunt them, they travel through the bloody streets of the New York that they once knew, as they try to find a cure for the epidemic disease that is waking the dead from their sleep. But even though the world is ending, they can't ignore the feelings that start developing between them.

Nell Watson just can't seem to get it right. Her parents treat her coldly no matter what she does and the one member of her family she could count on, her younger sister Paige, has turned her back on Nell. Now, everything's changing and Nell is starting to think that maybe perfect isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when she starts slipping up...and liking it. Gray West is not a guy you want to mess with but Nell can't seem to stop herself from losing her famous cool around him. Maybe a little imperfection is all she needs.