Our people are survivors, Calliope's great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots--could Bisabuela's ancient myths be true? Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew.
Empty vehicles litter the road.
Everyone has disappeared--or almost everyone.
Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors.