As a desperate measure to save humanity from extinction, Dr. Olson releases a virus into the population that makes girls go into heat -- craving a great deal of sex during their rare fertile periods. They will go to any lengths to get what they need. Men and boys can smell their condition and are nearly as single-minded in giving them what they want so much.
Boy meets beautiful girl who turns out to be part human and part alien. They fall in love and they get separated. Will he find her and what kind of adventures will happen on the way to finding her?
A Swarm Cycle Story
Martin Wolfe is second from the youngest in a family of siblings left behind by the Confederacy's pickups. He is also the only male, and that soon makes him more than just an annoying brother now.