Then came the fever.
And the wall."
Before
A series of six progressively worse hurricanes struck New Orleans over five years. The causalities quickly mounted while the number of survivors soon fell to an estimated 10,000. A devastated society began to crumble when the quarantine was declared by FEMA and the CDEC to stop the spread of Delta Fever. Just five years later, the United States government withdraws from the affected regions of the Gulf States to protect the rights of the majority of its citizenry.
After – 31 years later
Now a
primitive society isolated from the United States by a wall, Orleans is divided
by blood, type that is. Sixteen-year-old Fen de la Guerre is living with an O
positive tribe led by its chieftain, Lydia Moray. Lydia is eight months
pregnant and the tribe is hosting a powwow with the O negatives at their camp
in an attempt at unity. After the feast, Fen decides to check the camp’s
defenses. Soon she runs into trouble and the camp is under attack by a group of
Abs. fen finds Lydia but she is unable to help. She has gone into labor and Fen
struggles to get them to safety. Away from the attackers, Lydia soon gives
birth to a baby girl but quickly bleeds out. Fen is left alone without a tribe
to care for Lydia’s newborn.
Daniel’s
younger brother Charlie was a victim of the Delta Fever. He made it his mission
to find a cure. After college, Daniel went to work for the military because it
allowed him access to the best laboratories and samples of the virus. Hoping to
find a way to make the virus attack itself, Daniel only succeeded in making it
deadlier. Unwilling to destroy years of work, Daniel decides to break the
quarantine and go into Orleans. He hopes to find the missing link to make his
version of the virus into a cure. Daniel wants to save the world and ventures
beyond the wall.
The city
formerly known as New Orleans is not anything like Daniel imagined. Quickly
becoming terrified, he decides to leave and return back over the wall. Despite
his disguise as a leper, he is soon captured by a group by men and chained. Fen
is hiding in a foxhole with Baby Girl after narrowly escaping from Mama
Gentille and her blood camp. They both fall asleep and night has fallen when
Fen is awoken by a hungry baby. Trying to quickly fix a bottle, she hears the
rustle of blood hounds and knows there is no escape. She is chained and tries
to stay away from the leper that they have also captured.
Back at the
blood farm, Fen and Baby Girl are allowed to stay together for the time being. They
place the two of them along with the leper in a cell. Remembering the advice
her father gave her on escaping, Fen assesses their situation and realizes the
leper is really in disguise. She asks him if he is a smuggler and she is
disappointed to learn he isn’t. Daniel is looking for a guide to take him to
the Institute of Post-Separation Studies. Fen is unwilling until Daniel says he
will take the baby back over the wall with him. Fen begins to formulate a new
plan. As morning dawns, they are able to escape by pretending to be lepers and
aren’t followed.
Will Fen and
Daniel make it to the Institute and what will they find there? What secrets is
Fen keeping? Can Daniel locate the information he needs to create the cure for
Delta Fever? Will he be able to get back over the wall undetected with Baby
Girl? And what will happen to Fen?
No comments:
Post a Comment