Publisher's Synopsis
Even as the world ends, a family can still tear itself apart. Alice Fox is only six when her parents uproot her and their family for a new life away from Britain's disintegrating cities. But the seeds of their own destruction have already been sown, and travel north with them. In the Scottish Highlands she will learn the skills that she needs to survive this dangerous new world but, no matter how hard the family tries, the world and all its terrors draws its noose ever tighter around them.
