Returning to his hometown in the Georgia Appalachians, Fever Devilin encounters a seemingly young man claiming to be more than one hundred years old, followed by the discovery of the corpse of a vagrant wearing the same clothes as his enigmatic visitor.

"Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty--her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she's been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn't return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers...