When events in space go from bad to worse. This is not a love story.

One college student understands the why and the how humans lost the earth. Somewhere in an Appalachian Trail shelter, high in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is a log book which hikers leave notes to other hikers about their experiences on the trail; the last entry was not left by a trail hiker however, it was left by the one man who could record the final days of civilization.