This is the start of the books in not a hopefully bright future and to survive but despair, doubt and more death of friends and loves ones. BJ Nelson starts a lie that cost him and his family desperately in more ones than one and possibly wipe his family out but he care no he right all the time and world is wrong. He spreads the lie about the Puckett murdering his family member and a friend named Hector saying they did not start the fight but was defending themselves. And he starts a war against the Puckett which can not be stopped and he told to leave his family and go and stay with his sister and her husband but he finds them both dead and zombies which he must put down. There are many storyline start with trying to survive , murder, betrayal, rape and finally the power hunger at no cost. You meet Hector family and even though they know that BJ is telling a lie they join him on his crusade against the Pucketts and their friends. At the end BJ is killed but due to him 5 good people are murdered and there is more bloodshed to come and maybe the end of two families just because of BJ.