What if one day while waiting at a restaurant for your pizza, you found yourself in a world where a large percentage of the population, including your girlfriend across the table, suddenly vanished? Mayhem and chaos are the new-normal. What just happened? Where would you go? How would you live? That is where Michael Thomas finds himself on an early fall day in the not so distant future.
With no real knowledge of where he came from, growing up orphaned, few decisions had been up to him and unpredictability the norm. Michael is about to experience a life that will make the one he knew seem wholly predictable by comparison. None of it makes any sense. The apparent randomness of it all...
Who could have expected this? As it turns out, someone did. Several someone's in fact. Enter the letters from Jonathan, as well as new companions Eddie, Sam, Jane and MessBox Ranch. Compelled to go North, Michael finds a new purpose to his life with new friends and enemies. Most importantly he finds another Someone and something else he never expected by this time in his life, a family.
Of those that remain, the coming darkness will leave no one untouched. Still, it won't last forever. Find out how they were protected and provided for in spite of the encroaching evil just outside their door. There will be surprises. You also will have a role in this.
