For fans of American Gods, a dark, funny, and richly written, dystopian dream about the unbreakable bonds of family and the energy of the mother’s love.

The end from the world begins as literal fire rains down from the heavens. Old gods are released off their prison, eager to reestablish their long-lost power. But Rachel Deneuve has bigger, more contemporary concerns when compared to a divine war.

Her boy Adam is in the middle of a fight leukemia, and Rachel would much rather battle cancers about Walking Through Fireplace: A Misbegotten Book than gods. However when humans begin picking sides and fighting escalates, their home in Baltimore turns into a war zone.

Desperate to remain from the carnage—aswell as the germ-ridden refugee center—Rachel and Adam flee with their remote control mountain cottage, only to discover their refuge marred by mutated, grotesque plant life and animals. Eventually, the cancerous cells in Adam’s body begin evolving aswell, threatening his existence and forcing Rachel to endeavor back into the eye of the storm. Left with no various other choice but to sacrifice her own freedom on her behalf son’s security, she must become an unwilling warrior in a fight unlike anything seen in millennia, or lose everything she retains dear.