Forced to participate in a survival game known as the Culling, Healer Charlotte Brown finds herself lost and alone in the Wastelands. After being attacked, she falls in with an incompetent Mage, a hotheaded Soldier, and a Soldier who carries . . . is that a baseball bat? As the rag-tag team fights to stay alive, and collect all five runes (one for each Great Mage), Charlotte struggles with her growing attraction to the Mage who blows up everything he tries to enchant.