Kairye Winfree is invisible. At school, she's the tired, quiet girl teachers love to call out. At home, she's the easy target for her mother's relentless anger. there's a growing sickness spreading through out the town that's turning people a grotesque shade of yellow, just another sickness to ignore. But when a desperate escape from her mother lands her in the middle of a public massacre, Kairye comes face to face with
a horrifying man with sunken eyes, yellow skin and a blood-soaked smile, who already knows her name, Kairye is on the run, seeking refuge in a dusty bakery with the owner and the owners daughter who hints at a larger conspiracy. The world is falling apart, but the real horror is far more personal: a terrifying secret buried in Kairye's own life may have been the very thing that opened the door for this plague. As the lines between a personal nightmare and a global catastrophe, Kairye must face the terrifying realization that her own private hell was just the first sign of the end.