Wren Campbell's new life falls apart on a mundane shopping trip - it's a day like any other except that she is brought face to face with the one man she hoped never to see again. Hunter's time in prison has taken the gloss from his youth not from his plan to wage a survivalist war on the rest of society. In the sixteen years since Wren fled a backwoods massacre, with the FBI hard on her trail, she has rebuilt her life, Now the naive young rebel is a high school teacher, a mother of two and the wife of a respected criminal lawyer. For Wren, the past is a distant land - which Hunter wants her to visit again. He spirits Wren and her impressionable teenage son Daniel away to a survivalist fortress hidden in the near-desert landscape of Texas. From there Hunter intends to lead his Armageddon Army in a terrorist war. Wren's choices are simple - obey Hunter's commands or watch him destroy her son. But the first thing she has to do is throw off sixteen years of easy living and find the inner strength to fight.