Rain and Ty blame themselves for the horrific act of violence that took their unborn child. Months later, Rain is a recluse lost in guilt and grief. Until one day, as she mourns over the child’s backyard grave, a sudden shower soaks her with silver-tinted rain. The brief downpour induces an astonishing rush of joy, but the unexpected emotion evaporates like the raindrops on the grass. Soon she grows ill. Ty rushes her to a hospital crowded with others, all women, caught out in the bizarre rain. There they discover that similar incidents have happened all over the world.

The women become critically ill and many die overnight, while the survivors share dreams of being strange floating creatures in a surreal alternate world; a world all the women believe to be real. And to make matters worse, news of a catastrophic environmental release of a nanotechnology pathogen is raising alarms worldwide. Government officials, panicked by the suspicious coincidence, enact a quarantine of the women in American hospitals. However, even when the women prove not to be contagious, they are not released.

Ty and Rain flee. They find themselves fugitives in a world degenerating into chaos in the face of the nanotechnology contagion and silver-rain mystery. Rain retains a dream-like connection to the other women from the hospital and the strange floating creatures, who she comes to believe are an alien race on a distant world. And these alien creatures claim an ability to combat the nanotechnology contagion, using the women as tools. Rain discovers that the alien claims are true, but they come at an unbearable price.

The search for answers sends Rain and Ty down a rabbit hole where quantum entanglement, eugenics, determinism and free will form a tangled web that must be unraveled if humanity is to survive with their souls intact. And for Rain, it becomes a question of what one woman can do about a problem that involves the whole world…and beyond.

 Represented by Jessica Schmeidler.