FROM THE PAST Book Two of the Creepers Trilogy Bobby's brothers are dead, along with his surrogate father and the rest of his old life. The Settlement lies in ruins. Colorado's snow-covered mountains hold nothing but old horror. If he's going to make a life with his new wife and child, he has to move on. The Creepers are never far, and he can feel their hunger. Baylor and his steam train offer Bobby a way forward, a genuine shot at a future. But he is not the only child born in the west, and the past has other ideas. The warlord Moya is desperate to forge a new world in her own image. She has an army behind her, rising up from the south, and Baylor's train is an irresistible target. Before Bobby's new life can even begin, his family is torn apart, and he and Baylor are engulfed in a brutal fight. Their one slim hope lies deep in the hidden truths of Bobby's past, but that path holds dangers of its own...