For Emmett Helaman, life is what you make it. It is the year 2098 and Emmett is a widowed teacher and historian in the Asher Realm, a Mormon enclave established in the mountains east of Ogden. 21st Century attempts to adapt food staples to a changing climate have shrunken and decimated civilization so that humans exist as brutal scavengers in the cities and as refugees in a few Mormon realms scattered across America. Each year Emmett prepares his students to survive their mission work as they wander the country to spread the gospel and collect data. On occasion Emmett also ventures into the...