In the 22nd century, Earth has been harvested by a race of aliens known as the Xini. In the aftermath, all the planet’s resources have been stripped. Dakota sets out from Dallas in search of his lover, Grayson, who vanished on his way to St. Louis after the invading fleet departed.
Dakota faces unknown dangers in the devastated plains of northern Texas and southern Oklahoma as scavengers -- human beings reduced to shells after the Harvesting -- roam the earth attacking anything that moves in an effort to survive.
He finds a group of survivors struggling in what little remains of Oklahoma City, led by the tough, handsome Colonel Welch. While Mother Nature unleashes a fury of natural disasters to purge herself of the Xini r**e, Dakota must decide whether to stay with the colonel and help him make the colony viable, or continue onto St. Louis to find Grayson.
Dakota watched the column of thick, black smoke rising far to the northwest. It stood out from the reddish-brown earth and melded with the grayish-brown clouds. Only the slight tint of color in the soil differentiated between earth and sky. For as far as he could see in any direction, nothing else moved—nothing existed to move—only barren wasteland for miles. The weak daylight filtered through the thick cloud cover, making it difficult to determine what time of day it was. He could only tell that the sun was up. He adjusted the air filter covering his mouth while he studied the distant black column. Every few seconds a flash of orange light appeared at the base of the smoke. A signal fire? Like the one built on top of the remains of Parkland in Dallas to summon survivors of the Harvesti
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