Surviving the winter will only be half the battle... At the height of a brutal Canadian Winter, the world as everyone knew it came crashing down, leaving the surviviros to deal with the ashes pf theri fallen nations. In the Northern Ontario city of Sudbury, the Withers and other survivors scramble to pick the shattered remains of everything they knew while a warlord known only as Colonel Harnet and other raiders press in on all sides. In Sudbury, Daniel Wither must protect the Mayor and other survivors in City Hall from direct assault. In the now distant Whitefish, his daughter grapples to pick up the pieces of civilization aided by Derek Moss--once in sales but now finding himself thrust into the role of Ranger. Further west, at a dam cut off from the rest of civilization, Garrett Wither must keep his people from becoming the very raiders he had to defend that small town from.