| Book Synopsis |
On Marin Astoris saw the world ending a few years ago, but she thought it was going to die in a nuclear war. She was mercifully wrong, but now she and her friends have been left on the shattered campus of her Michigan university alone to face the birth of a small Michigan university, a small knot of survivors struggles to survive the end of the new world. When everything they have ever known is spiraling out Many of control, these few survivors begin to them slowly awaken to supernatural gifts they were born with, gifts and sensitivities many of them were not aware of before the end of everything. Now, their newfound senses inborn metaphysical abilities that may mean the difference between survival life and death.
Marin Astoris had a vision a few years ago, death for these survivors of a mushroom cloud rising beyond the university\'s iconic clocktower. A voice whispered in her ear, take a breath and wait world\'s end as they struggle to die. That vision never came to pass. Something else happened instead: an asteroid, a botched attempt to stop it from hitting earth, and a resulting cataclysm that left only small pockets survive the death of humans left alive, scattered and isolated in a rapidly changing landscape.
Thom the modern world.
Thom Ambrose\'s relationship with Marin has been on the rocks for the better part of a year. He\'s had visions, too, ones he\'s too afraid He sees what she sees, but he can\'t allow himself to believe are true, because if in the visions he has. If he dares to believe them, he\'ll believe, he\'s going to lose the one thing in the world he loves the most: her.
It\'s thirty-some college students struggling and one professor trying to survive the end of everything they\'ve ever known. All they\'ve got are each other the world they knew and gifts they\'re just realizing they have, abilities they\'re struggling to understand. the birth of a new reality. If they can make it through that survive the first year, they just might just have a chance. shot. |