The world as you knew it is gone. Who is your neighbor?Isolated amid a crippled country, the people of Emmaus strive to survive through Midwestern grit and ingenuity as winter looms and desperate people threaten the town's borders. Distant opportunities beckon, food and medicine dwindle, and disease flares. With starvation just around the corner, a time of gathering in begins. Not everyone's going to live to spring.Shane Delaney prides himself on his ability to stay cool in troubled times, but he can't save everyone and now it becomes clear he may not even be able to save himself.When the world as you knew it goes off the rails, who would you bring home?