Thirteen-year-old Corman Grant wakes up on a New York City sidewalk with no idea of how or why he got there. All of a sudden, the buildings begin to burn-causing mass hysteria all across the country. Luckily for Corman, a boy who claims to be his friend takes him to a secret underground society for victims of natural or man-made catastrophes. Here he will learn how to fight, survive, and keep civilization going in the world that comes after his own. Everything is going great-(or at least as great as the end of the world could be)-until people are being attacked. Will Corman be able to put an end to these violent attacks on not only them, but on civilization itself?