It began in New Year’s Eve.

The sickness came on suddenly and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on begun to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; regulation and authorities collapsed-and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.

Where there have been order, there is now chaos. And as the energy of research and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Some of it is great, just like the witchcraft worked well by Lana Bingham, exercising in about Yr One the loft apartment she stocks with her lover, Max. A few of it is unimaginably bad, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels under the river-or in the types you know and love the most.

As phrase spreads that neither the immune system nor the gifted are safe from the regulators who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing still left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked NEW YORK. At exactly the same time, various other travelers are proceeding west, too, right into a fresh frontier. Chuck, a tech genius seeking to hack his method through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pencil and paper to record the reality. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that appears out of place within this bleak panorama. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fight despair with their perseverance to keep a young mom and three newborns in their care and attention alive.

In an environment of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of these knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But an objective awaits them that may shape their lives and the lives of most those who stay.

The finish has come. The start comes next.