In 2050s London, fear grips like a vice as a deadly virus sweeps the globe. The British prime minister tells her people to remain calm. A vaccine will be available soon, and as a precautionary measure children will be whisked away to undisclosed locations, kept safe until the storm passes.
Marianne, Downing Street press secretary, doesn’t realise the futility until it is far, far too late. When the truth hits her, Marianne is forced to stay with her family, or do whatever she can to help the doomed survive.
As London falls, seven-year-old Maia is one of the last to escape the city. In an evacuation camp, she binds herself to Finn – in the absence of everything she knew, he becomes her everything.
Yet as the years roll on and hope fades, Maia sees the bubble of safety is also a prison. She realises there is only one choice – to leave the camp and find what remains on the outside.
Faced with a killer virus, the UK starts to go in to a melt down, trying to protect the citizens and find a cure when The Tomorrow Project is created by the government to try and protect as many of the children as they can while trying to get a stop to the illness spreading person to person.
The Tomorrow Project is a fast moving story told in three parts which all brings the horrors of an illness spreading quickly and unseen, killing thousands and then millions as the years pass on, leaving just a small group behind, fearing the outside world the longer there is no contact coming to them.