Emily Baxter feared she was the sole survivor of a deadly alien plague that swept through New York City, the nation, and the world in a downpour of bloodred rain. And when the dead began transforming into a terrifying new form of life, she feared her survival might be brutally short-lived. Then a human voice crackled from a satellite phone, urging her to flee north, where more refugees of the global annihilation hunkered down in a desolate Alaskan outpost.

Now, with only the supplies she can carry and her faithful dog, Emily races across the country, desperate to outrun the horrors...