After the collapse of civilization from an enormous solar flare, Daniel Kissinger attempts to get by in a city constantly plagued with solar radiation. Under S.T.E.A.M.'s strict regime, families must meet a steam quota each month to ensure the maintenance of a protective cloud layer to block the sun's radiation. But when his father, the inventor of ground-breaking steam technologies, is murdered, Daniel decides he's had enough with the way things are. Evan Hamilton, dictator of the city, must be killed.

A smile crossed Death's cold, skeleton face. "Looks like you're out of a job," he told her. The angel looked up at him, shocked. "I-it's not as easy as it looks," she insisted. [A compilation of short stories that are sometimes about life, but mostly about Death.]

Seventeen year old Jason Strong and his mom must survive in this new world that has been taken over by the undead. With the help from others, does Jason have what it takes to survive the new world.