The 1st Wave took out half a million people.<br/><br/>The 2nd Wave put that number to shame.<br/><br/>The 3rd Wave lasted a little longer, twelve weeks... four billion dead.<br/><br/>In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people.<br/><br/>And the 5th Wave? No one knows. But it's coming.<br/><br/>On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs. Runs from the beings that only look human, who have scattered Earth's last survivors.<br/><br/>To stay alone is to stay alive, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope.<br/><br/>Now Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death.