***OLD AND NEW VERSION ENCLOSED*** Marked a Misfit and destined for tragedy. Adie must fight to keep her life. Water will not kill her but, it may be the death of her.

Decades after a virus known only as the "Sickness" is released by a secret militant group known as The Silence, Creepers still roam the earth as the dominant, semi-sentient species. Unlike traditional "zombies," Creepers are still partially alive, and thus, they are difficult to kill. Humanity has taken refuge all over the world, some communities in the trees, some underground. But at ground-level? You're in no-man's land. This is Adam Night-Hawk's world, where he lives in a community high in the trees. Life is good, if precarious. Until the ones who messed up the world the first time take a second, unexpected chance.

Just as Halloween rounds the corner, high school senior Kamryn Branche decides to attend the school Halloween dance. At the dance that night, something happens that she feels is normal at first, and then changes her life for the worse. Unnatural things start to happen to her and they start to weaken her slowly. However, someone tries to help Kamryn, a boy named Chase, and this boy turns out to know more about things than Kamryn herself.