Meet Rani, servant of Ortec. Sixty years have passed since the great wave came, destroying the world as human kind knew it. The people living on the island-city of Ortec have their own way of life, their own way of surviving the endless water. Rani, a young earth walker who has never dared to dream of a different life, knows what is expected of her as the wife of the lawman. But then, one night changes everything. The night the pirates come. Without any warning, Rani is faced with a decision that no one on Ortec has ever had to make before. Shaking up the very foundation of the world they have so carefully rebuilt might just be the only choice Rani has.

Eight years have passed since Rani, servant of Ortec shook up her entire city by giving birth to an unwanted child. A strange sickness has come to Ortec, affecting the pregnant women. Rani finds herself locked in the safe room with seven other people to wait out the sickness. It’s on the day they open the door that the real mystery begins. Ortec is empty. Completely empty. Where have all their people gone? Then, to make things worse, a stranger soon comes to Ortec claiming he is there to save them. But this captain is no stranger to Rani. In fact, his eyes are very familiar. Frighteningly so. Will Rani be forced to go with the captain Cyrus? And is he really there to save them or are his intentions more sinister?

Cyrus is dead. The love Rani had thought she found is ripped away before it can fully begin and even after a year, she is still mourning that love in a heart that can't seem to let go. But now the survivors of Ortec have to move on again; this time to the island that Cyrus had once promised them. It's not the paradise they had hoped for. Can they get it ready by the time the freezing season hits? And what will happen when Rani's strength is once again put to the test?