Web reporter Lisa Lange chrysalized in late 2036. Four months later, she’s hatched and the world is about to learn how different Gen2s like her are from the New People of the first chrysalization wave. Their telempathic powers are terrifying: far stronger than the New People’s, mysterious, and seemingly uncontrollable. They can do great harm. Or—sometimes—great good. And the Gen2 might never know what they did.

The Eternity Plague viruses have disappeared, too, their DNA incorporated into the human genome. Now it’s even harder for Janet Hogan and her team of geneticists to find a cure.
Janet’s running out of time. The viral DNA is mutating faster and faster. The human forces arrayed against her are growing stronger.

Her one chance to save humanity may mean breaking the rules she’s always believed in.
Can she do it? Will she? And will even that be enough?