Snow on Cinders

The world has gone through a strange transformation since the final days, and the planet is slowly healing. Fulvio McTullan takes his family and a band of misfits away from Tallas and its ruling Elites, hoping to found a new settlement of their own.

The road leads through unmapped territory where unfamiliar creatures lurk. The travelers have to survive both the animals and an earth that has itself mutated, and the trip is full of mishaps before Fulvio finds a place that suits them. They start to rebuild there.

Back in Tallas, an Elite named Pomfrey Addler crushes the uprising against the Elites. Citizens then begin to disappear in the night. Pomfrey's daughter, Paniess, is set on revenge.

The settlers' new start is interrupted when a call reaches them, one that threatens to pull them back toward the danger they left. The book is a post-apocalyptic adventure that splits its attention between a dangerous trek and a city under oppression, and it asks how far a person will go to protect family.