A story of family and hope set in a future war-torn America from the author of The Dark Gun and American Whirlwind.

Ezra Asher and his wife Isla want to start a family, but continual miscarriages put their dreams out of reach. As America descends into all-out war in the new city of D.C. Two, Ezra and Isla find themselves bunkered down in their apartment, trying to survive the onslaught. When Isla becomes pregnant, complexities arise as she develops an illness that could jeopardize their chances of bringing a child into the world.

As the fighting escalates, Ezra makes a life-changing decision that sets him down an unexpected path of self-sacrifice, loss and redemption.