New parents, Jason and Anna Connors, avoid America's social collapse with a group in Big Bend Texas but dwindling resources demand they find better land to grow food. A scouting party finds a community willing to accept them at Hazel Creek, Kansas, but violent survival has left the residents hardened and withdrawn. Dark secrets torment the town but moving forward requires dealing with a past that none care to mention. Children robbed of their youth and a terrible secret resting under the city park cover wounds left by humanity's worst while obstructing the hope of unity. Hazel Creek was once a beautiful town of good people but the path to restoration demands faith, patience, and sacrifice. If the darkness wins there isn't enough time to find another home.