The year was 2723. The year time stopped. The calendar was re-set.Troy Collier emerges from a government bunker and goes to work rebuilding after World War III. He finds himself married at nineteen, and working at Compound One, the seat of new power in what is left of the Eastern US.The new mandate is to procreate for the survival of the human race. The community is infiltrated with spies, and there is rumor of a secret society of "evolvers" as people go missing.Faced with numerous challenges, Troy navigates his way, as humanity struggles to survive, and some to transcend.