Fifty-year-old Army veteran, Jesse, walks aimlessly around the streets of Germany longing for companionship and - maybe, just maybe - love.
After his beloved wife died, Jesse focused solely on his daughters' happiness, but they grew up so quickly and have their own families now. Jesse's only respite from the soul-crushing loneliness is his penchant for wandering through the European cities in which he works...Which is how Jesse accidentally stumbles upon a small, quaint café.
And how he meets Ana.
A stunning beauty, Ana is refined, intelligent, cultured - and, at just 32, almost 20 years younger than Jesse - so it's no surprise she catches his eye the very first moment he sees her. Jesse and Ana create a burgeoning relationship from that first meeting, which blossoms into the love Jesse craves so much.
From their age gap to families and occupations, the two navigate the difficult consequences of being together and apart, unaware that tragedy lurks just around the corner. Sometimes, being in love is the easy part.

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As global events reach boiling point, the world escalates toward inevitable apocalypse. In the ensuing anarchy, Tex Pemberton's wife is brutally murdered by a savage mob, and he faces the hardest challenge of his life – harder, even, than his tours of duty in the Middle East. With a young son and Victoria, his best friend and Army buddy's widow, to protect, Tex has no choice but to fight hard to survive.

Tex is a co-founder of "Little Alamo," a survivalist community deep in Texas pine country. In anticipation of the inevitable collapse of modern society, Tex had spent years planning and helping to build the small fort town to provide sanctuary for over a hundred forty souls in preparation for the After Times; he had made a solemn vow to keep them all safe, a vow that Tex quickly realizes isn't going to be easy to keep.

In the unforgiving, dystopian landscape, the unrelenting Texas heat soon takes its toll and the crops begin to fail. The fort's stockpiled resources also rapidly begin to run out as the Little Alamo takes in refugees escaping the marauding nomadic gangs who prey on the weak and defenseless. Within the fort, tensions mount among the increased threat of attack by the outsiders, and Tex is forced to make the impossible decision of attacking a neighboring community in order to feed his own people.

In the midst of the action-packed fight for survival, Tex finds himself falling in love with Victoria, and he realizes it's one battle he simply can't fight, even though he's terrified of getting hurt and he remains emotionally scarred by the death of his wife.

And so, the two embark upon a relationship entwined with guilt and dark secrets - one that is fated to end in heartbreak and death.