Seventeen-year-old Rose is a monster. She doesn't know what she is but she knows well enough that she doesn't belong anywhere outside of her cell. It's only when a boy by the name of William Blackwell leads his friends to hunt down the monster that she is, that Rose finds herself overtaken by images of them together in a different life. A different world. William, on the other hand, is just getting over the loss of his deceased love, Juliette. But when he finds Rose, he discovers Juliette, alive, breathing, only no longer who she used to be. Now, fighting a battle against his own instincts to hunt down the "Afflicted", as Rose later discovers herself to be, William must learn to either trust Rose to understand her connection with Juliette, and possibly save his lost love, or do as he's always done and kill her. But Rose won't go down without a fight. And she's slowly learning what it truly means to be free.