Benjamin Stuart and his friends find themselves in the custody of a ruthless military squadron. Imprisoned and on trial for the crimes the leader of the squadron believes they committed, the group is separated and tortured. The leader wants answers, and he will do anything to get them.
After the trauma he's faced in the apocalypse, Ben finds himself unwinding. Fear and uncontrollable anger nearly incapacitate him at random. A deep, growling darkness is creeping over his mind, turning him into someone he doesn't recognize, someone he's terrified of becoming.
In the blood chilling second installment of "We Are the Hunted" Ben and his unlikely group of companions start to learn that nothing is as it seems. The infected aren't the most dangerous part of their new world. Hunted by the living and the dead, forsaken by their fellow humans, and just trying to survive the new regime, Ben must find a way to navigate his friends to safety, while trying to keep his violent transformation under control.