The world ended on an August Sunday, and they were what was left...but they're not alone. Phelan Conrad came to the ruins of a Midwest university campus to help Seers Marin Astoris and Thom Ambrose survive in a wholly changed world. But it seems that his presence may do more harm than good to the knot of Michigan survivors as they face escalating supernatural threats from all sides--including a goddess of Death. Gray Miller and his friends found Aoife O'Credne wandering the Pennsylvania woods and took her in. They didn't realize that by doing so, they'd be sucked into a supernatural war more than a hundred generations old. Neve Vaughan has carried a heavy burden--a magic sword as old as myth itself--since her return from beyond the pale. When she finally finds the man destined to carry it, she believes that burden has been lifted--until she realizes that keeping the man she's come to love alive is going to be a far more difficult task than she ever imagined. The forces of darkness gather--is there any hope for heroes in a shattered world?