Jake Maddox is just an ordinary teenager, excited about his summer job and dreaming about muscle cars. In the blink of an eye, a nuclear attack by North Korea leaves him alone in a post-apocalyptic world. Forced into survival mode, he finds himself the leader of the Lions, a small group of rebels fighting against the evil Phantoms. Can Jake be the man his family raised him to be...and the leader the Lions depend on him to be?