Lucas Goodspeed and his family have made it out of San Diego and are journeying through the wastelands of Southern California. But trouble follows close behind and the group discovers that the grass isn't always greener... even in Orange County.

Biological warfare has decimated the earth's population, leaving two distinct groups of survivors in its wake. In San Diego, four teenage brothers rescue a young girl from a brutal gang of psychopaths and spark a chain of events that attracts an onslaught of unspeakable evil. This is the world of the Wicked and the Righteous... and the children will lead them all.