something was different she stepped hesitantly out of the subway car her boots sounding even louder now what was it the graffiti had that been there beforeemblazoned across the far wall in huge silver lettersthe end has comein new york kali wakes to an empty subway car and an even emptier city venus and gus survive an earthquake in los angeles and realize they have to deal with more than just the aftershocks in chile tigre finds himself in an unfamiliar jungle and strangely not alone and amon in egypt can see his path but is blind to the full picturethey are suddenly trapped in a deserted world five teenagers with no hope of escape why have they survived what force or intelligence connects them drawn inexorably toward one another they only know their future involves an experience outside anything they could have imagined fantasy newcomer tui t sutherland creates a future in which teens have the power to complete the destruction of earth or to save it