Maggie and Negan travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

It begins quietly, with a brother and sister's visit to their family cemetery. The first attack comes without warning, forcing Barbara to leave her brother lying bloodied and unconscious while she runs for refuge in a nearby farmhouse. Soon, there are seven desperate souls settled against the gathering darkness. Seven people with nothing in common but their terror of the hideous cannibals who claw at their windows and doors with an insatiable appetite...