Carter Boyd, an extreme thrill junkie who is desperately in love with life and running from demons, finds an opporutnity at the ultimate thrill when it's most needed--the chance to pursue and catch a little-known virus, dubbed by it's underground chasers as "The Northern Light" and believed to be a torch to illuminate the path toward perfectness In the wake of Carter's quest is a military viral specialist and a U.S. senator working a decades-old agenda to shut his life-altering chase down. With help from unexpected sources, Carter is led to a thrill-fueled, life changing, and perhaps final, confrontation. Who--or what--will overcome?