Picking up seven months later after the journey of Mitch Henley and April Gibbs ended in The Darkness After, Into the River Lands is the second book in this parallel series set in the same world as The Pulse Series. In the aftermath of an electromagnetic pulse that has shut down the power grid in North America and beyond, the river bottom forestlands of southeastern Mississippi are the setting for this story of a group of teens and young adults trying to survive in a world gone dark, where law and order has crumbled to anarchy.