When unknown assailants destroy the Elevated Platform Station, the last safe harbor inside the zombie quarantine zone, Hank Opland finds himself abandoned with Senator Jefferson's youngest son and the half-breed zombie woman Penelope Hope. Together they must survive and find a way across the channel to safety, but returning to the Rurals is a bittersweet experience when Hank's past comes back to haunt him, and he must put his own life on the line if he wants to save the very people he has been hunting out of existence for the past seven years.