This fast-paced, high adrenalin thriller tells the story of Max Wilder teenager, misfit, loner and superhero. Living an ordinary life in South Africa, he starts to get nightmares in which he is being chased by strange beasts comprised of three animals a wolf, an eagle and a bear. After one particularly vivid dream, he awakes in hospital, to find his parents have deserted him, and a stranger is there, telling him he is the Chosen One and must follow him, or he will die within the month from a disease known as The Cold .