When the world goes dark, love becomes the last light standing.
Eight months after an electromagnetic pulse ended civilization, Justin and Savanna have carved out something rare in the ruins of the Idaho a hidden life, a garden, a faithful dog named Samantha, and each other. In a dead world, they've found a reason to keep living.
Then the raiders come.
They burn everything. They take Savanna north as tribute for a warlord who calls himself "the Lord," a man who rules the mountains through fear and blasphemy. And they leave Justin with nothing but a Remington rifle, a promise, and Samantha at his side.
What follows is a six-hundred-mile odyssey through a lawless wilderness. Justin will face starvation, a predator far more sinister than any raider, and a darkness that goes deeper than guns and cruelty. But he will not stop. He cannot stop. Because somewhere in the north, the woman he loves is waiting, believing, holding onto a thread between their souls that refuses to break.
Along the way he finds unlikely a hardened ex-Ranger with a vendetta and twin pistols, and a soft-spoken British scholar who discovers his courage at the end of the world. Together they will rally a broken people, storm an impossible fortress, and confront an evil that has crawled up through the cracks of a fallen world.