In the half-light of an Alaskan summer night Matt Tulugak pulls his truck off a gravel road and gets out to relieve himself. Looking out over the tundra, he sees a brown gash where permafrost has melted and sloughed off a low hillock. A bony claw reaches out of the mud. He shivers in the light breeze, notices the crescent moon hanging low in the sky, starts to walk. As he approaches the claw it resolves into five huge mammoth tusks arranged in a circle. Within the circle a human skull, half buried and yellow with age, looks through empty eye sockets into a world that is about to change forever.

Jack Bradley wakes up to the sound of his adoptive parents being brutally murdered.  He follows the maniac who killed them through a wild urban landscape full of death and destruction, only to find out that the murderer may be closer than he thought.

Gabriel is a drug dealer who can’t remember anything about his past.  One night a murderer comes to take everything, but life is not at all what Gabriel believed it to be.  He is going home.

Humans carelessly wielded their power to create new things, a power that far outpaced their understanding.  It was only a matter of time until something went terribly wrong.  Something did.  Technology has been erased for millenniums, monsters spawned at the end of a world infest the forests and seas, and a new civilization has slowly risen from the long darkness. In sight of the looming ruins of what was once called San Francisco there is an evil growing.  The people of New Gate are about to face their greatest challenge.