A War of Lions and Lambs

Five years after the worst plague in human history, Jacob Trimble is still the leader of the Cumberland Community in La Follette Tennessee. The people under his care have done well, but Jacob has been in a dark place since the death of Melody Barstow at the hands of Casey Johnston, the boy known as the Marauder. After that, he became withdrawn and controlling. He is unwilling to share control of the community's destiny, to share all the information he possesses with the community's council -- to...