More than two years since the world fell apart, a girl named Rae struggles to keep ahead of the slavers and the black box truck. The truck is a mystery, but the cries that echo from inside it can’t mean anything good. The intent of the slavers is clear. They’re out for young drifters to supply their markets. After a stranger rescues her from being captured and sold, Rae hides in an old house, where she’s brave enough, or stupid enough, to read an outlawed book.
Then she meets her hero and finds out he’s the one who drives that black truck. Is he an enemy or a friend? After he saves her again, she decides to trust him. And she steps inside the truck she swore to avoid to her death. Will the enticing young man bring her salvation a third time? Or will Rae be the one whose screams fill the darkness tonight?