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Our future has crumbled. In the past due 2020s, the grid finally flickered out for the last time, succumbing to episodes from a recently formed Resistance, gas scarcity, and general entropy. It is now the entire year 2037 and many have perished, with the few that managed to escape death exclusively worried about their daily survival. Gavin Collier is one of those lucky few, but survival only isn't enough for him nowadays. Recognizing that the meaning of life didn't crumble along with the remaining world, he embarks on the dangerous and personal voyage for reasons that few can understand. After departing his home for the first time in years, Gavin must commit murder to conserve his life, only making it through through good luck and sheer pressure of will. The series of happenings that follow will alter Gavin's life permanently. He finds true love for the first time, so when his love makes the voyage to join Gavin at his family plantation, the violence and evil of the exterior world follows her there. Restored by anticipation and the energy of love, Gavin will do whatever needs doing to protect his future wife and the remaining people of his much loved family, as the dangerous forces close in on his valued plantation and small community. Gavin's family had been making it through with little help from the exterior world, but now they must get together with their neighbours to fight for their land and the ones they love. Personalities clash, lives are lost, and fear is inescapable. Each of them must struggle to keep their humanity in this new, brutal world. Gavin recognizes that they need to prevail at all costs, and keep carefully the flames of flexibility and faith using during one of humanity's darkest times. Doing this is the only way to make life worth living, and worth something more than just survival.