Nathan Lee Swift, the young anthropology graduate student turned high-priced grave robber, now gets a chance at redemption. He embarks on an Odysseus-like journey in an effort to save humankind. Meanwhile, young science genius Miranda Abbot is summoned to Los Alamos, where the world's most brilliant minds have gathered to stop the plague. Her strategy: to clone people from the year zero -- the last time people were immune to the plague. But when one of the clones claims to be the Messiah, Miranda and Nathan become entrenched in a powerful, compelling search for something much larger than a cure.

Critically acclaimed author Jeff Long follows his riveting novel, The Descent, with a haunting, apocalyptic thriller that stretches readers' imagination to the limits of annihilation, then draws them back to consider the resilience of the human soul.