Nine years since Rom Sebastian learned that all of humanity is in fact dead--and nine years after he was given a vial of miracle blood that, when drunk, would bring him back to life, with the complete gamut of human emotions restored to him--Rom and his thirty-six truly living human allies are in disarray, as The Order, that has kept humanity dead in order to control them, gears up to wipe them out completely. Only Rom's faith in the power of love will save him.