In a wild filled with scavengers and cannibals, everyone and everything is prey. It’s been twenty years since the bombs fell. In that time, New World City has grown, forcing the city council to seek out new sources of food and water.Lucas, one of the community’s historians, is sent out with a team of their best scientists and military personnel to record the events as they search for new resources. His appointment doesn’t sit well with the other team members, who view him as little more than a useless burden.The journey is dangerous, but their finds are promising, giving new hope for their community’s future. Until the team is ambushed and captured by a hunting party searching for food—which they have now found.Only one person escapes the net, the unwanted historian.Now it’s up to Lucas to rescue his team before they are roasted alive, the fate of his community resting on the shoulders of the one person no one wanted to come along.

On the run and separated from their team, Lucas and Corporal Jennings must find a way to return safely home.Hiding in a primitiive cannibals discovers their location, the two survivors must go on the run again. With the pursuers closing in and hidden dangers lurking around them, the chance of survival is slim and reaching home near impossible.Lucas and Jennings stumble on a squad of well-armed soldiers complete with modern weaponry and they believe they are saved. But they are an invading army from a foreign power whose mission it is to eliminate all survivors of the nuclear war of twenty years ago. Pursued by cannibals, hunted by soldiers, and battling through a hostile environment, Lucas and Jennings struggle survive in the wilds and avoid capture.War is coming. The people of the New World must be warned.

Trapped outside both the city and the invading army, Lucas and Corporal Jennings must find a way to help the residents of New World City overcome superior numbers and firepower. But what can two people do against thousands?As the walls begin to fall around the city, Lucas and Jennings devise a plan to draw pressure from the city. Doing as much damage as possible, the two attack supply convoys hoping to even the odds but as their efforts take effect they are targeted.Forced to run, they elude their pursuers but with so many soldiers in pursuit their odds of survival decrease by the minute. With time running out for both them and the city, they plot to take out one last supply convoy, but can they get to it before it reinforces the invading army, and will it be enough to alter the inevitable?