Jim Wabash, a celebrated Florida journalist, catches himself in the middle of one tragedy after another. With his personal life dismantled, and America on the brink of chaos, Jim is about to be dragged down with the rest of society...but not without a fight. Reaching from the Gulf Coast's pastel beaches to the Rocky Mountains' seclusion, Weakland devolves into a place where people idly ride-out their misfortunes...into a country with nowhere left to go.