Cass Dollar is a survivor.
But she, and all of the other survivors, will fight to the death for the promise of a new horizon.....
And beneath it all, Cass must confront the worst of what\'s inside her--dark memories from when she was a Beater herself.
The other keeps a primal hold on her that feels like Fate itself.
One--her beloved Smoke--is not so innocent as he once was.
Journeying down valleys and over barren hills, Cass remains torn between two men.
Clutching this dream, Cass and many others decamp and follow him into the unknown.
A mysterious traveler arrives at New Eden with knowledge of a passageway North--a final escape from the increasingly cunning Beaters.
But from beneath the devastated California landscape emerges a tendril of hope.
She\'s overcome the meltdown of civilization, humans turned mindless cannibals, and the many evils of man.
Cass Dollar is a survivor