A man is saved from near death by a mysterious shelter dweller. He remembers nothing of his past and gets the name Templar. He accompanies his savior through the wasteland slowly discovering and learning about various factions that wander the unknown lands. They save a woman from the cannibalistic Screamers and witness and survive a massacre. And from there the story diverges. Simultaneously we follow more stories, one of Templar and his search for any notion of his past. Second is a young man Named Kal who has suspicious similarity to Templar’s savior. And finally, two woman, Marah and Myra whose stories slowly converse to one. They are all on a desperate search for Seahorse, an underground shelter that holds answers to all their questions. But each faction they encounter have agendas of their own and none of them care about any lives lost in the process. Yet Seahorse holds a secret that none of them knew about.

An intricately constructed novel that switches from characters and timeliness in post-modern fashion and takes a play with cliches of the genre. In the end, both the characters stories and the construction of the novel converge in a great reveal that few could expect.