An  unnamed  UK  metropolis.  The  future.  Renowned  photojournalist  JENNIFER  PRESTON  is  investigating  the  aftermath  of  a  terrible  explosion  that  ripped  through  the  city  on  New  Year's  Eve.  Known  simply  as  'The  Catastrophe',  this  shocking  tragedy  has  left  behind  a  festering  wound.  The  city  is  on  edge,  thousands  have  evacuated  and  a  sprawling,  militarized  Quarantine  Zone  has  been  erected  around  the  epicentre  of  the  blast.  The  'QZ',  as  it  becomes  known,  is  a  network  of  empty  buildings  and  abandoned  streets,  shrouded  beneath  clinical  plastic  and  fenced  in  behind  impenetrable  barricades.  Heavily  armed  security  units  ensure  that  nobody  goes  in  and  nobody  comes  out.  As  unexplained  and  increasingly  bizarre  acts  of  violence  erupt  across  the  city,  Jennifer  begins  to  notice  strange,  ephemeral  phantoms  in  her  photographs.  What  begins  as  an  artistic  documentation  of  The  Catastrophe's  lingering  aftershock  soon  becomes  an  obsession  with  'The  Phenomenon'  -  a  seeming  paranormal  phenomenon  gripping  the  perimeter  of  the  Quarantine  Zone.  Jennifer  slowly  but  surely  becomes  convinced  that  The  Catastrophe  and  The  Phenomenon  she  is  uncovering  are  not  disconnected.  And  when  her  theories  eventually  incite  interest,  not  all  of  which  are  welcome,  Jennifer  learns  that  the  reality  is  more  complex,  and  dangerous,  than  even  she  imagined.  Jennifer's  investigation  becomes  a  race  against  time.  Can  she  discover  the  cause  of  the  Catastrophe  before  the  authorities  get  to  her?  Can  she  save  her  boyfriend,  government  advisor  JONAS  FLACK,  from  the  danger  inside  the  QZ  when  the  evidence  she  uncovers  goad  him  to  investigate  for  himself?  And  what  of  her  one  ally,  detective  LEVIS  MATHIS,  who's  own  search  for  the  truth  behind  The  Catastrophe,  in  which  his  daughter  died,  brings  him  into  direct  conflict  with  the  dangerous  and  powerful  conspirators  orchestrating  events?  Most  importantly,  can  she  solve  the  chilling  riddle  of  the  strange  entities  in  her  photographs  before  The  Phenomenon  rips  her  life  apart?