A University of Texas at Austin art student comes home to find police on her doorstep. They tell her that her microbiologist mother and engineer father as well as all of her parents' coworkers are dead. Isa wants to understand what happened. She enlists the assistance of an investigative journalist to find out. The pair have no idea where this search will take them.

This book is first in a trilogy called After Normal. It takes place in a period from the year 2003 to 2045. When I started writing these books they were near future science fiction, but the world quickly caught up. The books describe a world crumbling to ruin.