![]() ![]() ![]() She studies each death that results from the RM virus, which attacks the newborns and kills them within the first 56-or-so hours of their lives – without fail, every time. Dismayed and devastated by this, Kira feels an urgency to find a cure for the RM virus now that her best friend has become pregnant and will deliver soon. A “plague baby.” We meet 16-year-old Kira as she witnesses the loss of her ninth baby as a medic intern in the hospital maternity ward. ![]() ![]() As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that the survival of both humans and partials rests in her attempts to answer questions of the war’s origin that she never knew to ask. Then one rash decision forces Kira to flee her community with the unlikeliest of allies. When sixteen-year-old Kira learns of her best friend’s pregnancy, she’s determined to find a solution. The threat of the partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to the disease in over a decade. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials–engineered organic beings identical to humans–has decimated the world’s population. ![]()
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