When the Chinese arrive in Ridge Manor, Florida, Sheriff Wayne is the only one who knows they're coming. He tried to warn the rest of the town, but no one would listen and now it's too late. Joanna Markes has just come back to town after ten years on the run from her parents who didn't want her to have the child she was carrying at only sixteen. The sudden death of her husband and father of her child forces her to come home just in time for the invasion. As the days pass in the small town, now heavily invaded by soldiers, Joanna and Wayne both realize something is off with this invasion and with their invaders. Why are there so many of them, especially in their little town, and why is the highest in command settling at City Hall? Why are there no airplanes in the sky, tanks or bombs going off? Where is their own military and how could they invade the entire country so easily? Each step closer to the truth is more terrifying than the last and Joanna finds herself moving further from the world she knows and soon she dives into a world she didn't know existed.