Jessica must find her missing mother in the post-nanotech apocalypse city of Wren with only the help of a trash-eating alcoholic street anemone and a boy raised by a colony of giant acid-spitting amphibious rats.

A string of gruesome, supernatural murders plague the peaceful towns of old-time rural France, whispers about the gypsy lore of the Carnivuara begin to circulate as the body count rises...

For the last two months, Rebecca has been plagued by dreams of a mysterious figure who bears a warning to her: "nothing here is right". Soon after, she and her younger sister are thrust into a world of lies, war, and secrets.

Two friends will go into a dangerous forest to search for their estranged parents and stop a sinister plot that will bring about the end of their world.