This is the final book in the Life After The Light story. Nick and Zoey Patterson are on Spring break and visiting their parents in Chicago when the US is hit with several EMPs. They know they have to get out of the big city and decide to head south. Their Aunt Susan and Uncle Jim live in Maxwell, Florida on the state line. Traveling a 1000 miles with every person in the US hungry, you meet the good when you least expect it but also the bad. (violence and profanity in book III )