The Last Librarian (The Justar Journal #1)

by Brandt Legg

morning of that year . . . the revolution began. No one knew it then because it started, as revolutions often do, as something quiet and almost routine. There was no way Runit Happerman, a bookish, cautious, single dad two weeks past his forty-third birthday, could have had the faintest idea he would be at the center of the storm. As he commuted to work on that frosty morning, through the gleaming

universal terror, grief, and mayhem followed. It became impossible to keep up with burning the bodies and dealing with contamination, and in the end, billions were lost. Chaos ensued, and war broke out. But instead of the zombie-apocalypse many expected, those in charge actually managed a miracle. With the population more than halved, it was as if humanity had been given a fresh start. A reset. From the pandemic death and nightmare, a near utopian world emerged. Nearly seventy years had passed since the Banoff war ended. The