TEN YEARS AGO every human eighteen years and older died. It was from a virus, caused by the meteor sent down to earth by alien forces. And now, almost all of the solely child survivors are inflicted with the same virus. Some children, however, are not affected by the virus. At fifteen, Scarlet is one of the "special" ones. After the last of her family perished five years ago, she joined a group of kids that moves from place to place, raiding towns for any food and other necessities they can find, barely surviving. But when the Unaffected children, Scarlet included, get abducted by aliens who are rapidly eliminating the human race, she finds herself trapped on a distant planet, no way of getting back. But when the opportunity comes, she and several of the others, escape and set off to look for the antidote to the virus. They must find it before it's too late… and the human race disappears.