The world didn't end in fire or war-it ended in silence.
Forty-two years ago, the sun disappeared. Humanity collapsed beneath the darkness, and only those deep enough underground survived. Now, the light has returned... but the world it shines on is no longer the one they left behind.
Vivian Shaw and Ray Winslow-once soldiers, once lovers-emerge from a government silo into a planet healed by time and emptied by fear. Wrinkled, angry, and unfinished, they set out across what's left of Ohio in search of two impossible things: the sister Ray betrayed and the forgiveness neither of them ever earned.
Along the way, they find a boy. A photo. A grave. And a truth too human to leave buried.
This is not a story of war.
This is not a story of rebuilding.
It's a story of two people learning how to live again... before it's too late...