On the plains of a near-future United States, Malik, Beckley, and a few other survivors of a catastrophe that killed most adults struggle to survive, and face off against a band led by a man who ensures their obedience by scarring them with non-lethal snakebites.
On the banks of the frozen Mississippi River, in a post-apocalyptic America, Freya and Finn head south in search of a place called Norlins, but first they must dodge the slavers and avoid starving to death.
Fourteen-year-old Shep Greenfield rides his horse between the makeshift colonies along the Wisconsin River delivering homemade medicine to people infected with nightpox, and while trading meds for much needed grains, he finds evidence that suggests his missing parents may be alive in a distant settlement called Dusty Hollow, a disease-ridden settlement that is about to be burned down, and Shep must act quickly to find his parents.
When snow drives Malik, Beckley, Emma, and Wendell into Des Moines, Iowa, they are taken in by a Coalition that is caught between an anti-electricity, cult-like group and brutes who raise pigs to trade, feeding them on children.
Seventeen-year-olds Fix, a natural mechanic, and Cleo, a gifted tactician, must find a way to cooperate in a near-future Iowa or they and the group they lead may die at the hands of armed bands rumored to be making their way down from the north.
On the plains of a near-future United States, Malik, Beckley, and a few other survivors of a catastrophe that killed most adults struggle to survive, and face off against a band led by a man who ensures their obedience by scarring them with non-lethal snakebites.
When snow drives Malik, Beckley, Emma, and Wendell into Des Moines, Iowa, they are taken in by a Coalition that is caught between an anti-electricity, cult-like group and brutes who raise pigs to trade, feeding them on children.
Fourteen-year-old Shep Greenfield rides his horse between the makeshift colonies along the Wisconsin River delivering homemade medicine to people infected with nightpox, and while trading meds for much needed grains, he finds evidence that suggests his missing parents may be alive in a distant settlement called Dusty Hollow, a disease-ridden settlement that is about to be burned down, and Shep must act quickly to find his parents.
Seventeen-year-olds Fix, a natural mechanic, and Cleo, a gifted tactician, must find a way to cooperate in a near-future Iowa or they and the group they lead may die at the hands of armed bands rumored to be making their way down from the north.
On the banks of the frozen Mississippi River, in a post-apocalyptic America, Freya and Finn head south in search of a place called Norlins, but first they must dodge the slavers and avoid starving to death.
