Rebecca is unaware that she is the first of her kind. Others are and they want her blood.

She may inspire a new era of peace and prosperity. She may become the salvation of our species, leading her people from a dystopian existence brought on by fifty years of unprecedented drought.

Or she may not.

In a world not far enough from our own, in which all fresh water sources are contaminated and depleted, the dwindling population of the Earth is crying out for water, and they die fighting for it.

Rebecca’s appearance has been foretold in myth and legend, in the hopes and dreams of those few that survived the Bloodshed and who are now striving to survive in the subsequent Thirst.

She may fall in love. She may save the world, but Rebecca must begin by running the gauntlet that is The Alley.