The year is 2520 AD. A devastating conflict with a race of sentient, undead humans called the Shroud 30 years before has left earth an underpopulated wasteland converted into a prison planet by humanity's governing power, the Alliance. Dr. Jack Mason is a disgruntled medic for the Transgenic Control Commission who carries out milk runs transporting sick prisoners after a series of demotions for insubordination. Tasked with transporting a cryogenically frozen infected woman from a earth's largest prison, the Anvil. Jack finds himself protecting Karina as they fight for their lives when his ship is shot down and he is hunted by murderous nomads called Scavengers. During the struggle, Jack is infected with Karina's disease and must reluctantly trust her if he is too successfully overcome the shadowy conspiracy against them...
—redcommander27