THE WORLD IS WINDING DOWN. Centuries after humanity's last stand against the Dark Filament, their servants--the bloodthirty creatures known as Incarnates--hunt down anyone under the age of eighteen. Civilization is broken, and the remaining population is elderly, isolated and hopeless. Sixteen-year-old Korden Bright has lived his entire life behind the Barrier, a mystical shield which hides him from the Incarnates...