The wolves are at the door... After a bold move by the raider known as Cecelie, Derek must recover stolen supplies and a family heirloom by traveling to the east and to Lively taking him and a few others from the ranch on a risky trek to the east and out the range of any support straight into Cecelie, and her raiders, territory. Garrett barely manages to survive his fall and spends what remains of winter and spring alone in the wilderness, forced to survive by his wits and luck with hunting and avoiding patrols from Kovach. Not far from the core of Sudbury, Sheridan's father, Daniel, leads the survivors from the downtown to what he and Victoria hope is a safer haven - the university on the south shore of Lake Ramsey. And the ever-resourceful Gina finds herself in the heart of Cecilie's raider gang when she tracks missing children from Lively. Captured and forced to play a ruse to hopefully trick Cecelie,...

Surviving the winter will only be half the battle... At the height of a brutal Canadian Winter, the world as everyone knew it came crashing down, leaving the surviviros to deal with the ashes pf theri fallen nations. In the Northern Ontario city of Sudbury, the Withers and other survivors scramble to pick the shattered remains of everything they knew while a warlord known only as Colonel Harnet and other raiders press in on all sides. In Sudbury, Daniel Wither must protect the Mayor and other survivors in City Hall from direct assault. In the now distant Whitefish, his daughter grapples to pick up the pieces of civilization aided by Derek Moss—once in sales but now finding himself thrust into the role of Ranger. Further west, at a dam cut off from the rest of civilization, Garrett Wither must keep his people from becoming the very raiders he had to defend that small town from.