Maddison Thomas is a seventeen year old on the run from her past and her ex. She's just walked from post-war Michigan to post-war California. Henry Gardner is a seventeen year old trying to protect his family and friends as a Guard Sergeant. He lives in post-war California. Twenty-one years ago, the world was rocked by a nuclear war that decimated America, Russia, China and both North and South Korea. With the world abandoning the nations that turned their planet into a wasteland, the survivors of the countries affected by the war were left to fend for themselves. As a new threat approaches, can Henry and Maddison survive, or will their haven be destroyed along with the old world?