Helicopter pilot Vladimir Yurish is a man of his word. The last thing he wants is to abandon the safety of the U.S.S. Nimitz and his newly adopted son Ben. Still, a promise is a promise, no matter how close to death it brings him. Angie West has fought hard to keep strangers alive, but now it's time to tend to her own. However, when she finds her family missing and their hideout burned and looted, she realises the threat to her family isn't just the undead - the living can do so much worse. Halsey has done well for himself, given the circumstances, but now the war has come to him.