Xander MacNamara's adventure continues when he joins the surviving military force and is placed in charge of a civilian colony outside Barstow, California. He and his young wife, Felicity Jane, face the daily grind of reconstruction under the constant menace of zombies and an equally terrifying nemesis - hungry cannibal biker tribes known as Alphas who constantly threaten to topple everything they've built before selling them into slavery - or worse...