When a terrorist organization engineers a new virus that turns people into monsters, Duke, Who leads a comfortably mundane life working for the county Social Services, loses his entire family to the monsters. Now Duke lives an emotionally empty existence in a remote cabin where he lives only for vengeance. Duke eventually finds himself in a situation where he not only must re-examine his misanthropic lifestyle but finds a woman who brings up feelings he so carefully buried. Once again a deadly threat appears that jeopardizes not only this woman but also the emerging civilized, modern society that once was.Duke now has a chance at redemption. Can he protect the woman that has kindled long lost passion and protect this group of people, this new 'family' all while retaining his humanity? Or will this new conflict make him into a worse monster than the ones he hunts?