The author brought book six and book seven with only about five years or so now Battle lives in Virginia and Rudy, Norma, Lou, Dallas and David their son still live in Texas. Lou and Dallas needs Battle to save Her, David and soon to be another child from the Populations Patrols who works on both sides of the wall. They said they were created to help solve the food shortage for both sides of the wall due to a draught that had not ended since shortly after the Scourge had killed two third of the world population which was 25 years in the pass.

Book six and book seven flowed into each other very smooth as if they had been one book at one time. The first part of book was set up as tie any open storylines and explain things that had happen to both Lou, Dallas and Battle and what had happened to the people in Texas that Battle knew and had been betrayed by when they told him to leave and we see him leaving town. Then you find yourself five plus years in Virginia and Battle living in isolations only going to be around people when he has to to make purchases. One night Dallas shows up and he at first was not a friendly face till he heard the Lou was pregnant and already had a son by Dallas and she needed him to come and rescue her and David and get her to a safe place. so she and David would not be caught and sold to one of the many groups called Tribes be used as breeders and then the children taken away and raised by strangers and taught how to fight the Population Cops. You take a trip by train from Atlanta to Texas with that makes you feel you have gone to the Old West with Train Robbers, Coyote Traders/Human Flesh Salers and Mercenaries. Also you get a trip across from the country and you see what America has really become almost a desert and were water was almost gone and people dying of hunger and thirst. You get a trip with the Coyotes taking pregnant women and children to be sold, you learn of the underground railroad to rescue families, pregnant women to a safe place called Harbour. And you finally get to see Battle in action to protect his friends who he loved and as always saving people who really needed his help but would not ask.