When the government collapsed, leaving Alaska to fend for itself, Travis's family chose to stay. When the fires burned through their town, Travis's family chose to stay. When the fires came back, turning even the wilderness to ash, Travis's family was trapped. Natural disasters and a breakdown of society have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Now, as food runs out and the few who remain turn on each other, Travis and his...

Twelve-year-old Maia's parents say she's lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to have smelled the smoke, lucky to have pulled her sister, Amelia, out of their burning house. But is it really "lucky" when Maia knows it was her candle, left unattended, that started the fire in the first place? When she's sent to spend the summer with her grandparents in northern Minnesota while her sister recovers in the hospital, Maia discovers that...