"The demons. Where did they come from?Maybe with all of the bad going on in the world, we, as a destructive species, invited them. From where though? Another planet, or our own imaginations? I’ve even thought that maybe they could be us, the worst of us, mutated."Society has crumbled. Loved ones are lost daily. Can an empath and two children survive a violent world filled with crime, vigilantes, and strange things found in the dark? To pass the time, a twelve-year-old boy chronicles his experiences as a captive in a deranged man's basement, all the time wondering about the fate of his friend, Ashley Heard. Ashley Heard witnesses her father's murder at the hands of home invaders and is forced to flee a decaying city. Ashley befriends the empath Juniper Jones, a woman with a dark past. Despite their hellish surroundings, three people manage to touch each other's lives briefly, but for the better.