Surviving the murder of her family and months on the streets of a plague-devastated world, Kira Jordan, a low-level psi user, wakes up one morning chained to the notorious Rogan Ellis in a room where their every move is controlled and televised to a vicious audience.

"This is the revised text of a work first published as Countdown under the pseudonym Michelle Maddox by Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc., in 2008"--Title page verso.