In the rotting world of 2027, 14 year old Phoenix Landry is one of the few people left alive. When the plague ravaged the earth, when the people were no longer people, she made a new life. Now, though, she is beginning to see changes in the way the...things act. They are getting stranger every day, smarter, more agile. When she sees smoke, she decides to find its origin, warn those who may be there of the changes. But will she get there in time, or will the world become even more dangerous than it already is?