An army of Sweepers terrorizes the camp, carting off innocent people and infecting them with the plague. Reluctantly, she finds him after her home is destroyed however, new dangers await her. Then, suddenly, she is swept to safety by a mysterious boy named Aidan, who helps her escape the hounds and urgers her to join a band of survivors.
But when an unrelenting pack of vicious hounds begins to hunt her, Lucy is not sure she can continue on her own. As the weather rages out of control, she survives alone in the wilds of Central Park, hunting and foraging for food and making do with the little she has, while avoiding roving scavengers and thieves. Even the landscape of her beloved New York City is ever-shifting and full of hidden dangers.
What comes next? Smallpox epidemics, floods, droughts-for sixteen-year old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, stealing with it everyone she ever loved.
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