With the smoke of Sunny Valley Ranch still thick in the air behind them, Adam Hall has an impossible mission: ensure that his daughter Crystal and the rest of the survivors find a safe refuge. But no matter how far they run, Adam knows that death will haunt their every step. Rumors swirl of a captured Specter starship and of smugglers using it to ferry people to safety on another world, code-named Sanctum. To get to the ship, they will have to traverse twelve hundred miles of desolate wasteland teeming with every imaginable threat, and Adam fears that even if they make it, not all of them will survive the journey. With the Specters’ fleets lurking in orbit and their terraformers roving steadily across the Earth, a new life on Sanctum could be their only hope. Yet blades of doubt needle Adam’s resolve—What if Sanctum is a lie?