Cally spent her entire life on the run, moving from city to city every four months in order to remain undetected. Her entire family is a paranoid mother who believes in the existence of a race of supernatural beings who are tirelessly searching for Callie. Creatures capable of destroying the Earth if they manage to reach it. Callie had never seen a single piece of evidence that her mother was right, and as an eighteen-year-old, she had come to terms with the reality that she would never have a normal life. That was until they arrived in New Orleans. As soon as Callie found herself in the French Quarter, hearing jazz and feeling the spirit of the city, the ice wall that she had built around herself for protection began to melt. Then they came for her. Her mother's stories turned out to be very real, and no matter what happened, an empty world Callie will never be the same again.