It is seven years since the Sweats wiped out most of the world's population. But for those who survived the outbreak life has gone on. Stevie Flint and Magnus McFall are now part of a small community on the Orkney Islands who are trying to rebuild the rudiments of democratic civilisation. When three strangers arrive on the islands however they upset the fragile community bringing long-buried tensions to the surface. Realising that a number of the islands' young are missing Stevie and Magnus set off on a journey to the mainland to get them back - a mainland swarming with outlaw gangs and where self-appointed autocrats and religious fanatics hold sway . . .

Part of the The Plague Times Trilogy series.