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Its a shoot first ask questions later world after the apocalypse After a perilous escape from the nuclear wreckage of their Washington DC suburb in Ashes Ashes the surviving kids reach their destination a mountain safe house only to find their troubles have just begun There are no adults and the kids are still all alone Fifteenyearold Nester Bartletts biggest worries had been growing up black in America but the nuclear apocalypse has changed all of the rules Now instead of getting good grades and struggling against the negative stereotypes against African American men hes fighting just to stay alive With no skills for his new life of tending animals maintaining fires and defending their mountain cabin against intruders hes unprepared for the threats that bombard him and his friends from the weather from escaped prisoners from a nearby correctional facility and from their own grief over their losses Then as nuclear winter sweeps over their mountain home killing crops and animals a medical emergency threatens one of their number Nester must make a desperate choice that shatters their little community and irrevocably alters their chances for survival