Prologue - The Hour of Lead

They call it 'the plague of blood.' When it is over, eighty percent of the world's population is dead. Governments have fallen, communication is limited, and those who are left must battle starvation, violence and complete chaos. At St. Augustine's, a boarding school in rural England, the remaining students and nearby villagers deal with the aftermath of the virus and struggle to learn to survive in the world that is left.