Mary lives in a village surrounded by fences. She dreams of stepping outside the boundary and finding the ocean her mother has always told her about. But outside the fences, deep in the forest, live the Unconsecrated, people who are dead, but not really dead and infected by a horrible epidemic. When the village fences are breached and the Unconsecrated invade her town, Mary and several others flee into unknown territory, determined to find sanctuary beyond the forest to survive.

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