All Zara wanted to do was pass her Spanish final and graduate high school, but suddenly she's waking up in an unknown hospital. The east coast is destroyed and she's one of the few survivors. The government has assigned her to Outpost Eight, an abandoned Catskills resort converted into a fortress. Not only does Zara have to come to terms with the loss of everything she's ever known, but the leader of Outpost Eight marries her to his son.Cliff Andrews is too quiet and afraid of everything, especially his father. There's much more to the situation than he's telling Zara. Nothing feels right about Outpost Eight and Zara questions what really happened to Cliff's first wife.Everyone else might be willing to blindly follow the leader's laws, but not Zara. She won't stop until she knows the truth about Outpost Eight.