Three years ago, sunlight began to die. Within a desperate try to reignite the declining star, america joined all of those other globe in unloading its nuclear arsenal on the flickering ember. The missiles burst from silos in Wyoming and Bangladesh, cocooning the earth in tendrils of smoke as they began their two-and-a-half year journey into space. If they finally reach their focus on, it’s thirty levels in July and getting colder. Lisa and her husband Guy sit shivering on a South about Ember:A Novel Carolina hilltop, viewing as humanity’s best hope at survival shimmers faintly … then disappears below the horizon. Several militant rebels known as the Minutemen make use of the ensuing chaos to knock out power grids, cloaking the freezing earth in near darkness. Seizing control. To flee this ruthless new world purchase, Lisa and Guy join a hesitant band of refugees crossing the snow-covered South in search of shelter and answers. From an icy car parking lot in Atlanta towards the Minutemen’s makeshift headquarters at Asheville’s Biltmore Estate, only one point is certain: in a world with small light, there is nothing guaranteed – least of all survival.