num_pages: 374
description: Six years ago a highly contagious virus wiped out more than ninety-nine percent of the countrys population. The only person to contract the virus and survive Cricket fled her identity and the safety of New Caelum an airtight city. Now eighteen she watches the city where the wealthy cocooned from the devastating outbreak. When the citys rumbling incinerator wakes her one night while she and her friends are camping just beyond the city walls she alone knows what the fiery machine the lethal virus is back. Only eighteen Westlin Layne is already being groomed to succeed his mother as New Caelums next president. Suddenly Wests sister develops symptoms of the deadly virus thought to be eradicated years ago. Placed under quarantine the president confesses to West a long-held Christina Black Wests childhood friend and first love survived the virus and her body alone holds the precious antibodies to save his sister. Now West must leave the city to find Christina. But Cricket has no intention of being found.
language: English
title: Emerge
publisher: Heather Sunseri