The main character is an introverted recluse who teams up with a fourteen-year-old girl. Together, they fight to survive as they get to know each other. He is computer-smart and used to ordering his needs online. She is street-smart. Where one is strong, the other is weak in world that has degenerated into hungry mobs of desperate people. This book is purposefully different from the norm of the genera in that it centers more on the people while the story advances.

    

     All Lila wants to do is get her kids far away from the city to her father’s farm where they can rest and be safe from the chaos that has consumed the world. She is shocked beyond belief by the changes he’s made to the property since she was last there for her mother’s funeral. Not only has her childhood home been completely changed but she arrives just as an old feud is kicked up into an all-out war. There are family and community bridges that she will have to build and if that doesn’t work, she’ll not only set them on fire, she’ll blow the damn things up!