After the death of her daughter in the first book of the series, Maxine Mad Max Davies new role in life, full-time grandparent raising two grandchildren, takes her into post-Katrina Mississippi, nature s newest wasteland. While she gets used to raising children again, she also learns to live in a region where most of life s conveniences vanished in the storm and tidal surge. She must protect her grandchildren as well as help others in this new environment. Along the way, she encounters racism, murder, modern-day slavery and child abuse."