With the assistance of Jared, the two manage to cure Jamie's ailments in time. When Jamie is suffering from a fever caused by infection from a leg injury, Wanda realizes that she must recover medicine from the Souls to cure Jamie before it is too late. During her time in isolation, Wanda learns from Jeb that the humans are trying to cut Souls out of their hosts in attempt to restore the consciousness and life of the humans but so far each attempt has resulted in a dead body. Shortly after recovering, Wanda stumbles across a slew of mutilated bodies that cause her to hide by herself in terror for three days. After managing to save both herself and Kyle from drowning, the two are taken into the infirmary. After tending to a cancer patient one night, Wanda is attacked by Ian's brother, Kyle. She is also given the name Wanda in replacement of the name Wanderer.
As days pass and she starts to become a part of the community, many of the community members start to trust her with jobs and eventually gave her a teaching role among the colony. Most of the other humans wanted her to be killed with the exception of Jared and Jamie, and later on Ian O'Shea, who develops feelings for Wanderer. When Jeb comes across Melanie's dying body, he realizes what had happened to her but still leads her to his hideout: a network of caves housing more than thirty people. By doing so, she would be denying the Seeker Melanie's memories and the humans they would lead her to. As Wanderer starts to uncover some of Melanie's memories of her younger brother Jamie Stryder and her boyfriend Jared Howe, Melanie gets her to follow a series of landmarks throughout the Arizona desert to find her Uncle Jeb, hoping that Jared and Jamie are with him. Wanderer's assigned "Seeker" suggests that she could be placed into Melanie to retrieve the memories before disposing of the defective body, but Wanderer makes several attempts to deny her Seeker's wishes.
However, Melanie's consciousness is still alive and begins to communicate with Wanderer mentally. Wanderer, a Soul, is placed into the body of Melanie Stryder. When a Soul is implanted into a host body, the consciousness of the original owner is erased, leaving their memories and knowledge.
A species of parasitic aliens called "Souls" have invaded Earth, deeming the humans too violent to deserve the planet.
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