For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing--and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Two teenagers--Lina and Doon--discover information inside an old metal box that could lead to the salvation of their city and their fellow citizens. Now, they must race against the clock--cleverly maneuver around corrupt politicians and unsavory characters hoping to keep them from their goal--to follow the clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence and restore the light in the City of Ember.

In the Old West territory of New Mexico, a pair of hired gunmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, arrive in Appaloosa. They find a small, dusty and lawless town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg. Bragg has not only taken supplies, horses and women for his own, but also has left the city marshal and a deputy for dead. In Bragg, they find an unusually wily adversary who raises the stakes by playing with emotions. It is now up to Cole and Hitch to stand against the actions of the renegade rancher, which have already taken their toll on the town.