All I've wanted to do is keep my family safe. All I've wanted was to protect them from the evils of the world... but I've failed. I've failed so badly, and now all of them are suffering... I'm suffering... The world has lost so many, and now that we've lost one of our own, I don't know how to keep going. I don't know how to protect them anymore. But I need to stay strong, I need to keep fighting because I would rather die than let another one of my family members get hurt. We need to get to the Taoree Independents camp in order to save my brother. Supposedly they can protect us from all the turmoil, and they have tools to help Wes... or at least that's what Orrean says. He also says that they want to fight back, but I don't see how we could ever fight back against all of the monsters that have taken over our world. Put yourself in my shoes and tell me there's a better way. Tell me there's a better option to save my brother, to keep my family safe. If you made it to that camp, would you just cower and hide, or would you stand up and fight back? Independents is Book Two in The Taoree Trilogy and is meant to be read as part of a series. This book ends on a cliffhanger, but there is a promise of a happy ending at the end of the COMPLETED trilogy. ***WARNING: This book is recommended for ADULTS ONLY. It is rather gruesome, so if you don't like violence, death, blood, and the like, don't read it. There's also lots of cursing, ya know, 'cause it's the end of the world and all. This is a MM post-apocalyptic story with a romantic subplot... and sometimes one partner is not of the human variety.***