What could be worse than coming to with no memory of your past? Quinn Reynolds regains consciousness and wonders where he is and most importantly who he is. He glances around and notices four strangers, all women. They tell him who they are and he's supposedly has known each of them since childhood. Bits and pieces of memory are fed to him as time moves slowly forward. He's from Terre Haute, Indiana, but that's not where they are. They're just south of there in Hymera, a small sleepy town. And the world is in its sixth year of darkness; his mind is totally blown. He's also told they're on a large farm run by a rich and powerful man, even in the apocalypse, named Tony Shaklin with a nasty temper and four wives. Quinn is surprised to learn that wife four is his sister, not that he remembers her at all. Three small crude wooden-framed houses make up the "women's only" quarters. They are the "hired" help for Shaklin's place, slaves unable to leave. Things become desperate as the women feel threatened by Shaklin informing them a dangerous man is in the area. A man who could ruin him. Security around the three homes is tightened while Quinn is secretly hiding there, keeping him safe for now and he shudders when he's told the dangerous man's name - it is his own. They need to escape, but the situation becomes a tinderbox ready to explode at any moment. And in the last hour, he discovers the ugly truth of one of Shaklin's wives - Three, as the women call her. Will he be able to lead the four women to safety or will he stay too long and be discovered?