Book 1 of the Extinction Point series! First comes the red rain: a strange, scarlet downpour from a cloudless sky that spreads across cities, nations, and the entire globe. In a matter of panicked hours, every living thing on earth succumbs to swift, bloody death. Yet Emily Baxter, a young newspaper reporter, is mysteriously sparedand now shes all alone.
But watching the happy life she built for herself in New York City slip away in the wake of a monstrous, inexplicable plague is just the beginning of Emilys waking nightmare. The world isnt ending; its only changing. And the race that once ruled the earth has now become raw material for use by a new form of life never before seen&on this planet.
With only wits, weapons, and a bicycle, Emily must undertake a grueling journey across a country thats turning increasingly alien. For though she fears shes been left to inherit the earth, the truth is far more terrifying than a lifetime of solitude.