Plague: Jacob Trimble has never experienced it. Fear: He has never really known it. Death: He has never had to deal with it - until now. The human race is decimated by a lethal virus. The few people that are left, the lions and lambs of humanity, are gathering in the Cumberland Mountains of eastern Tennessee.
Jacob has also never considered himself to be a leader, but now he must lead a small group of survivors, all teenagers and young kids, in the right direction or he will face something else for the first time - the extinction of his race.