Olive returns to her high school as it reopens two weeks after the mass shooting that shocked and brutalized this small West Texas town. Olive and her classmates, their parents, and the school's employees and teachers each must find some way to take the first steps to move forward as a community.

A discouraged angel of love falls for one of his targets, introducing some hard choices and unexpected consequences.

The world outside has ceased to exist. Brandon, his girlfriend Katie and his younger brother Guy have finally decided that it is better to die at their own hands in the company of the ones they love, than to continue living helplessly, confined to a dark, minuscule abandoned storefront.