Alex is taking her sisters and their kids to her camp in the Adirondacks when the unthinkable happens: a nuclear war. Greeted by guns and bullets when they try to find refuge, they hide in a cave to escape the fallout. When her sisters leave in search of their husbands, Alex is left to care for the children. It's a 35-mile hike to her camp. Through villages that have become killing fields. Along the way, Alex rescues two orphaned children. Society is devolving. Looters, rapists, and killers hold sway. In her struggle to keep the children fed, she stumbles on a cache of food only to discover its owner is a man who'll haunt her nightmares: half guardian angel, half demon. Both barbarian and benefactor. A strange mixture of brutality and gentleness, cruelty and caring. A man named Wolf!