Kate Crawford's world was shattered when the Collapse came. It seemed like one moment she was a university professor of Anthropology, and the next moment she was hiding in her home from the Ripper Plague, tortured by nightmares of a shadowy man with shining eyes. And then the Dark Angels came to her neighborhood, marking front doors and searching homes - she had no choice but to leave.
She planned to travel west, back to her hometown in the mountains of North Carolina, back to an oppressive family she vowed never to return to . . . but she has nowhere else to turn now.
Before she can even make it out of the city, she's stuck on the roof of a building with a possible madman, the streets below overrun with tens of thousands of rippers. But she knows she needs to get out of the city, because the blind woman in her dreams tells her to head west, telling her that there are others like her, that they will all be together . . . they just need to find each other first.
These are amazing books. I couldn't stop reading. I needed to know what was next. These books keep you on the edge of your seat. I was by no means warned about the event in chapter 45. I hate the author for that. Didn't want to cry that's why I read books like this and not romantic crap. So thank you Mark for that rude surprise. So far other than that surprise Mark has done an amazing job with these books and his other ones. I suggest after you finish these books go check out some of his other work.
Kate's hometown not what she expects , but in some ways better, and some ways worse.
Kate and Brooke meet Max and Petra, two more survivors, who have seen the same dreams they have, and continue on together. Max seems easy to get along with, but Petra is more of a challenge. Their discovery at the Foster farm changes every thing (some for the better).
Good book. Hate to see the main character that don't have any common sense. She has a hard time just making it in this world and a child has to save her life. I can see this happening to a lot of people of this age. Good writing Mark.