Book excerpt: Originally released as a weekly/bi-weekly series on the blog publishing platform Medium, it was later compiled into a single short story. --- The United States is gone. Society has collapsed. But family is ever the constant. You can always count on family to protect you and be there for you, even when the world as you know has passed on. Or can you? Four siblings, each a power in their own right will soon come together to celebrate a wedding. But it's not that simple; with family it never really is. There's hate. There's revenge. There's ambition. There's a thirst for conquest. Separated by distance and their ideals what will happen when they reunite?