Alex Cavanaugh lives alone, more of out necessity than anything. It's just safer that way. Hunted, he knows better than to let people into his life. Anyone that gets close to him ends up dead.When Alex meets the beautiful and vivacious Julia Monroe the last thing he expects is to develop any feelings for her. He faces a decision of potentially life threatening proportions. Allow her to get close and possibly put her life in danger, or let her go and return to his dark and miserable life.Letting Julia in brings a light and joy to his life that he hasn't experienced in a very long time, but that happiness comes at a price. Alex harbors some very dark secrets that during a moment of crisis, he is forced to reveal. Alex's world gets turned upside down when the lives of everyone he holds dear are threatened by a virus that reanimates the dead.. It's multiplying, spreading the infection at an alarming rate. Now faced with a plague of biblical proportions he must fight for the lives of his family, and for the woman he loves, or risk losing everything.