Rudely awakened by a deadly home invasion, Dakota is thrust into a country at war. Realizing her home is compromised, she begins a journey from Minneapolis to the Wasatch-Uinta Mountains in order to survive. While she tries to figure out what is happening in America, she has to adapt to a world void of the society and technology that has been the foundation of her life. Fighting against the darkness threatening to consume her and facing decisions she never expected to, Dakota struggles to find peace. In the middle of danger, both civil and wild, Dakota learns to find love in the darkness around her. But can she survive in a country that's been torn apart? Fears of Darkness is a raw, emotional story of a young family trying to survive in a country ravaged by civil war.