Christos Gage delivers a fiery return story to the world of the Crossed and the vicious alpha-infected, Smokey! He's found the smart girls, he's found a place to farm and Smokey is preparing to settle in for the long-haul. Can he pull off the first Crossed settlement? If the Crossed are the inevitable creeping doom, Smokey is the unavoidable fate waiting for you in a world of misery and woe.