Failing student Dexter Liams struggles with his mother's death and her final wish: to safeguard his sister, Lily, at all costs. Even if that means escaping his abusive father and into the unknown. When an strikes London, the city is thrust into an nightmare. Dexter traverses the carnage to find and protect Lily. Looters and thugs lurk around London's streets as Dexter strives to reach safety, whilst the world around him descends into madness. And when a child trafficker too close to home snatches Lily, Dexter battles his own guilt to get her back. Meanwhile, Graham Anderson lives on the streets, estranged from his wife and son hundreds of miles away. But he can't go back. was the one who left them. After the EMP goes off, an elusive group ropes Graham into their clutches. Clutches he believes are a second chance at life. Clutches very few can escape. But Graham's second chance at life becomes his second death as he loses the last sliver of his humanity to the survival group. And when he attempts to leave, the leaders threaten to kill him. For good. Dexter risks leaving his mother's dying wish unfulfilled and Lily dead. Whilst Graham, in trying to survive, treads the fine line between turning a new leaf and losing the last fragments of his soul altogether.