"Ten years have passed since the world's oil went sour and a pandemic killed most of the population. Sam Edison is the chief of police of the Little Five, a walled-in community near Atlanta, Georgia. Edison and other survivors share the world with "hollow-heads": creatures who are no longer fully human. A man and a pregnant teenager arrive at the gate and are welcomed into town. They begin to settle in, when suddenly both are murdered by an unknown assailant. In the course of the investigation, Chief Edison discovers that the girl was fleeing a life of sexual slavery, and the some of the members of the Atlanta community were complicit in the human trafficking network that had ensnared her. In retaliation for Edison's meddling, agents of the network abduct the stepdaughter of the town's mayor. Chief Edison and the three companions track the kidnappers to Athens, Georgia, where they discover that the entire city is engaged in human trafficking. By the time Edison has recovered the kidnapped girl, the other three rescuers have been killed, leaving Edison alone to bring the mayor's stepdaughter home while evading both human and non-human monsters. Against great odds, will Sam ever make it to Little Five alive?" -- p.4 of cover.