Five hundred years ago, the cure for the common cold went horribly wrong. The infected became freaks forced underground, they return at night, driven by rage and hate to attack the surface dwellers. Scientists created genetically enhanced soldiers, Wardens, trained from birth to protect the weaker humans. The Captain of the Ward, Jackson Kyle, is infected while saving a comrade’s life, but he is not like any other freak. His faculties intact, he escapes and encounters a mysterious young woman. The second he touches her, he is compelled to protect her at all costs. For she will decide the fate of humankind.