When an experiment to stop cancer goes wrong because of an earthquake, a virus named Erect Pilau is discovered, and forms in your erector pili. It infects billions worldwide, and leaves humanity near extinction. Only 1.3 billion people are immune, but the number decreases as the virus worsens. Your erector pili are small muscles that give you goose bumps when you are scared, and make your hair stick up. As Nita and her husband watch the world die around them, they struggle to survive. Will they survive, will humanity survive? Read the book to find out.