The Great Winter just got a little colder as a girl struggling to survive the frozen post-apocalypse plots her revenge against the cult that took everything she loved from her, not knowing she still has more to lose. After getting revenge on the man who murdered his family, Michael Wells suddenly finds himself the guardian of a mysterious baby girl whom he finds in an abandoned cabin, and decides to raise her as his daughter. Abbie Wells grows up in a community struggling through the Great Winter, but on her 15th birthday, a ghost from Michael's past comes back to haunt him, leaving their village aflame and Abbie on the run. As well as surviving in the brutal frozen wasteland, Abbie has to dodge ravanous predators, killer weather, and various groups of territorial survivors, including a radical cult led by a self-proclaimed saviour, all while trying to find the disturbing truth about her own origins.

Rowan Lincoln thought she knew all the ins and outs and creepy little places of her small town. She knew every backroad, every family, and thought there were no more surprises left to discover. That is until a mysterious stranger suddenly shows up and a terrifying secret is unveiled to her. Vampires exist, and they have walked among humans since the beginning of time. As people start to go missing around town, Rowan is forced to question who she can trust and who she must fear. The choices she must make will be difficult, especially when it's clear her own life is on the line. Will she choose to clutch on to her humanity? Or will she succumb to the creatures she once thought were myth, that want to drag her into the darkness forever?