Alex is tough. She has survived the EMP blast, she has lived among the flesh-eating Changed, and she has been separated from Tom for months. And she hasn't given up.

But on the brink of starvation and in the grip of a winter that just won't end, Alex discovers a new and terrible truth:

The Changed are still evolving.

And... they've had help.

This is book 3 in The Ashes Trilogy .

There are 608 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Hachette Children's Group .

Ilsa J. Bick is a child psychiatrist, a film scholar, a former Air Force major, and an award-winning, bestselling author of short stories, e-books and novels. Ilsa lives with her family in rural Wisconsin.