Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a preacher in a small mining town that's been taken over by a notorious Land Baron.
Ava has lived a charmed existence, shopping, lunching with friends, classes. Bobby, the love of her life, has taken excellent care of her. When he suddenly dies, she ends up destitute on a new journey of which she never dreamed.
A mysterious virus has wiped out much of the world's population, with the remaining sick being corralled in quarantine zones, as one man fights to find a cure to save humanity, and himself.