The world has one chance to survive. Too bad it's pinning all its hopes on a green-veined junkie with no plans to help.

Thirty years ago, an asteroid stuck the Earth. Now killer plants hunt the last surviving humans.

Nobody can escape Wish City. Nobody can save it. Nobody but Ori, according to Ori's mother. She'd made him a laughingstock with her preaching. Now she's dead, and though Ori can hide in his drugs, he can't hide the change in his veins. They are turning green, and his mother's prophecy is dragging him into a dark struggle between invisible forces. Set up on bogus drug charges, Ori is taken to a secret facility where he becomes a test subject in experiments to discover an antidote to the alien plant's sting.

Jack is a cop with a vendetta. He lives to fry every one of the plants that killed his best friend, but until then, he takes care of his old friend's lover, Rive. Together they form an unbreakable bond—or so he thought. Jack can do without Rive's friend, Ori, but he doesn't understand Rive's strange indifference to Ori's conviction. Suspicions growing, Jack can't help digging into a mystery that draws him closer to Ori than ever before—and closer to somebody who has secrets to hide.

Alone and scared, Ori is grateful for Jack's friendship, and his longtime crush soon blossoms into love. But Ori has no plans to accept his fate. He wants to escape, and he doesn't care if he takes the cure with him. He's nobody's savior.

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