Publisher's Synopsis
"Shoot first...ask questions later." That's the motto for the world after the apocalypse. After their periolous escape from the wreckage of Washington.DC, the surviving kids reach the Mountain Place, only to find their troubles have just begun. Fifteen year old Nester, who had been on the fast-track to success in the world before the bombs, has no skills for his new life of tending animals, maintaining fires and guarding their safe house from intruders. Buffeted by threats both internal and external, Nester must put aside his own guilt and grief to take care of the others. Then, as nuclear winter sweeps over them killing crops and animals, a medical emergency threatens one of their number. Nester must make a desperate choice that shatters their little community and alters their hopes for survival in a heart-breaking way.
