It's been five years since the infection spread and even though Hal is safe within the New World's walls, the nightmares haven't stopped. The Dead Days cast a shadow over everyone, in one way or another. The things they did, the things they didn't do. But the people in power have a plan to make everything right again. With plans to bring the infected back into society, Hal and the rest of the New World are left to decide which side of the fence they land on. As a power-hungry leadership directs reintegration to begin with a questionable newly designed 'cure', Hal wrestles not only with reintegration but also the blood on his own hands and if there's such a thing as forgiveness in this New World.