The Plague of Atlantis—a pandemic the likes of which humanity has never known—has swept the entire globe. Nearly a billion people are dead, and those whom the Plague did not kill, it changed at the genetic level. Governments offer a miracle drug that they distribute throughout the world. But it only treats the symptoms of the Plague, but does not cure the disease. The people who call themselves the Immari are satisfied with this outcome, they imagine a new world inhabited by a genetically superior human race, ready to fulfill their destiny. And only geneticist Kate Warner has the key to solving the mystery , surrounding the Plague of Atlantis. She soon discovers that the story of human evolution is not what it seems, and saving the planet's population may require a sacrifice she never imagined.