Centuries after a catastrophic war shattered the world, a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest finds skyscrapers and cities replaced with kingdoms and tribes. With the technology of the past destroyed and forgotten, the reborn world is more medieval than modern. 
Despite an unprecedented reign of peace, pride and mistrust have driven the Dog People to the brink of civil war over the successor to their War Chief. These internal conflicts are soon overshadowed by new and awakening outside forces, and it falls to Gan Moondark, son of the War Chief, to save his people and land from a madman king. Escape to Challenge is the first book in the Moondark Saga, a series of novels set among reforged civilizations, where the rule of tyrannical kingdoms is absolute and without mercy. Despite a culture of never-ending conflict and war, forces awaken that desperately hope to restore freedom and knowledge to a world still recovering from the mistakes of its ancestors.