After tending to Adam Blake's life-threatening wounds, all the "Family" can do is wait... It is the waiting that is hardest for Linda Stephens. She and Adam had found something special-had fought long and hard in a hostile, dying world despite incredible odds. And now, just when they thought they had found happiness, disaster strikes. Afraid that Adam could die without knowing who she truly is, Linda resolves to tell him everything. Sitting a lonely, fearful vigil beside his sickbed and hoping he can hear her, Linda starts at the beginning: when the Black Dust fell...