Against a backdrop of social decay and extreme weather, nations continue to fight over religion, politics and lines on a map. In every city, a mass of unemployed and destitute people riot in the streets. Led by a clandestine group of terrorists known as Ghosts.

Logan Quinn is given a choice, either do nothing and hope for the best, or risk everything for the possibility of survival in a saltmine.

Major Tess Avery is unexpectedly removed from domestic peacekeeping and given command of a military bunker.

It’s one minute to midnight and the clock is ticking.

They survive in different worlds but are drawn together to discover the price of survival is evolution. And the price of evolution is humanity.