2035 AD: Connor Stanton and Rebecca Pedtke were orphaned when their parent's stronghold was overrun by a renegade army. He was twelve and she was ten when they escaped into the Wyoming wilderness to an emergency hideout their parents had prepared for such a catastrophe.
After four years of surviving on their own, when they believed they could endure almost anything, Connor was forced to shoot three men who found and attacked them.
They rescued Vickie, a girl their own age who'd been a captive of the attackers, but she presented a whole new set of challenges because of the crude realities she brought with her. She questioned their belief in God and their innocent relationship with each other. Later, their attempt to join a fortified community of believers brought even more struggles, ultimately making them targets of Maddix Rutledge, the criminal strongman, believed to have killed their parents.