In the darkest corners of lower Manhattan, a battle like no other rages. The city is home to a hidden group of survivors of the nanite plague, and a brother and sister born to defend their race. With a touch that can destroy nanites, Lanni, sister of Alex, is their last chance. Can she save her brother? Can she protect mankind's only hope? Or will she be responsible for the destruction of the last humans on earth? It's going to be another long day....... Killing Tiffany Hudson was just the beginning, but there is so much more to the story surrounding Diane and Crane's meeting in post-apocalyptic Manhattan. Children of the Plague tells the story of the survivors in the city, including Diane and some new characters you'll want to meet.

When Cassidy travels back to Boston to write a story on the infamously known Saints, she is reunited with close friends from her past, Connor and Murphy McManus. Cassidy has known Connor and Murphy since birth, and seeing them again makes her feel right at home. But the problem is, the answers to all Cassidy's questions, are right under her nose. All she has to do is open her eyes a little wider and take in the big picture.

Humankind cannot again anything without first giving something in return; to obtain, something of equal value has be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. Back then, Dad drilled it into our brains. The one thing he drilled in deeper was that human transmutation was forbidden no matter how desperate you are. I had no idea why, but for Junior and me, he never doubted what our father said. That was until I decided to become a State Alchemist.