


Human survivors that live on a derelict ship anchored off shore.Įlse continues her search – reaching the ship and discovering that a rag-tag tribe of human survivors live below decks, building their own mythology under the iron rule of the evol Captain and crew. Together they discover that the child has been taken by the Sea People. She joins forces with an Aboriginal hunter called Jirra to track the boat down the river to the sea – hoping that her baby is still alive.

The child is lost when Else’s small boat is swept away on flood waters. She must battle zombies, crocodiles and the elements to get her newborn son to safety. The child is born during a terrible storm, and feral zombies attack Else’s house in the Queensland bush. Nine months after the Courier sacrificed himself to destroy the Adam and reduced the intelligent evols to shambling, mindless zombies, Else is preparing to give birth to the son of the man she loved.
