Will their love save the world, or end it?As the sole survivor of a doomsday cult, Willow Hawkins isn't easily rattled. It makes her well-suited for a security gig at a monster research facility. But Subject X-16 isn't a monster. Not yet, at least. Beneath his sprouting feathers and numerous red eyes, he's a sweet and lonely young man terrified by what he's turning into. When Willow discovers she's the only one immune to his strange and dangerous "episodes, " it feels like fate. She's always believed that she survived for a reason, and perhaps he is that reason. As she races against time for a way to control X-16's eruptions of uncanny power and stop his gruesome transformation, she can't help but care for him. Yet the closer they become, the more she sees signs of the apocalypse her childhood cult foretold. If Sixteen completes his transformation, it might mean the end of the world. So did fate bring Willow here to save the man she's falling for, or to kill him and prevent the apocalypse?