"He makes me feel like the luckiest soul in the universe. Of all the planets I have lived on, all the hosts I have occupied, I have never wanted another person so badly... I finally found something I would die for." Set after The Host, Wanda starts to worry about her first night with Ian once they are able to move into their own rooms after the rain stops.

Wanda, Ian, Jared, Mel, Sunny and Kyle go out on a raid for medical and food supplies when a suspicious alarm goes off in the medical building. Wanda is forced to do something that tears her and Ian apart, leaving them both broken and bleeding.