The deeper the winter, the darker the hunger.
Juma thought it was just another morning. Then the buses crashed, the streets emptied, and the black-eyed dead came for him.
Ella and Hagos cling to each other as their world narrows to blood and betrayal. Aksel and Belinda, prisoners of the sadistic soldier Kjell, face choices that could mean freedom - or death. And in the frozen mountains, Kristoffer and Ragnar discover that letting others in may be the most dangerous risk of all.
The infection is spreading. The survivors are splintering. And in the frozen north, survival may demand a price too terrible to pay.