In the highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Returned comes a high-concept dystopian novel that imagines a global at war and two siblings who are forced away from home, challenged to accomplish whatever needs doing to protect themselves and each other.Stay and die or operate and survive.Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have already been independently given that they were orphaned at age five, surviving a merciless foster care system by counting on each other. Twelve years later, the world starts to about The Crossing: A Novel collapse around them like a lethal contagion progressively wipes out entire populations and a devastating world battle rages on for the get rid of. When Tommy is usually drafted for the war, the twins are confronted with an option: stay and accept their destiny of almost particular death or run. Virginia and Tommy flee in to the dark night time.Armed with only a pistol and their fierce will to endure, the twins established searching for a new beginning. Encountering a colorful cast of people along the way, Tommy and Virginia must navigate the dangers and wonders of the changed world as they try to outrun the demons of their past.With deft imagination and breathless prose, The Crossing is a riveting tale of loyalty, sacrifice, and the burdens we carry with us into the darkness of the unknown.