Brooke and Sugar are contract killers without a contract. Bird is the 13-year-old boy who mysteriously appears in their camp one night, with no memory and palms as smooth as stones. For miles, there is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes, people. It's only a matter of time before the sheriffs will find them. Before the canniblas and stampedes and marauders will find them. Before the past will clamber up from where they buried it, covered in animals skins and teeth.