Christos Gage returns to Crossed and brings with him the Alpha-Crossed, Smokey to a new and horrifying tale. Deep beneath the ground is a hidden bunker where a few select survivalists have come to ride out the outbreak. Safely beneath the horrors in the cities above they watch and wait. But a new kind of Crossed has arrived and their carefully crafted plans are smashed by an axe wielding sadistic brute with a motive of his own.