The Beginning of the End

354 years after the most devstating chemical war destroyed most of the earth and living matter on it, the world has almost finished healing, but that doesn't mean the danger is gone. Vile creatures have emerged from the darkness, once human now disfigured and hungry. The question is after 354 years asleep why are they waking up.
Nova is a teenage girl living in the ruins of Brisbane with a small group of humans called the Livelings, everything is going well for her until her camp is ambushed by strange people who take all the children in her group. She evades them with her friends, but what happens when they catch up to her?
Who are they? What do they want with her? And what about the creatures who threaten to wipe out the rest of humanity? What secret will someone risk death to keep, and how will it destroy the only person that they care about?
This is defiantly the beginning of the end.