She’s just lovely but when the world starts going up in flames around her, she has to fight back. And it does – thanks to ‘Dragonscale’. This mysterious spore appears first shows itself on the skin, creating intricate black and gold markings up and down the body. Those markings begin to glow, and eventually the spore sets its host on fire. Harper begins to work at a hospital helping those infected, but eventually that goes up in flames and she finds herself infected too. Not only that, she’s also pregnant, and for that reason she is desperate to find a way to survive and avoid spontaneously combusting – at least until she’s had the baby. Enter the Fireman; a mysterious figure who steps in, whisking her away from her shallow, bitter husband and to a place where she might just be able to live out her pregnancy.