Amy and Otis meet again, two years after society’s collapse. With the saddle horses Otis has trained to pull his makeshift plow, he is plowing fields for his friends-a matter of survival in the After. Amy has news: her uncle’s trained team of heavy horses is running free in the hills southwest of Camas Prairie. Otis and Amy go after them. But another team lurks in those wild hills, a team of murderers.