In the year 2184, the US is divided. Half the country has moved on with the rest of the world, while in middle America, the survivors of the terrorist biological attack that split the country struggle just to stay alive. Though a century has passed, few people brave going behind the borders meant to contain the danger. Even the privatized military is reluctant to do so.<br><br>But that doesn’t stop recently discharged Sullivan Eberle. Only one thing drives him anymore -- the need to find Raphael Hamada. He doesn’t know why. He only knows he must. If that means a lifetime behind the borders, then so be it.<br><br>Rafe Hamada ran away from the real world when he was still a kid. The last thing he wants is to be found, especially by a soldier who can’t even tell him why it was so important to locate him in the first place. He’d like nothing more than for Sullivan to leave, but turning his back on a man alone and friendless is against everything Rafe stands for ...

Penny Candles

He didn’t remember passing a church when Joe and Luther had brought him into town, so he turned in the opposite direction and walked farther down the main road. The noises from earlier were gone, as were all the lights. Behind him, Maria pulled down shades that blinkered her restaurant to the world, and all Sullivan had left to guide him was the moon above.


That wasn’t entirely true, though. At the end of the block, faint illumination flickered in a tiny window of a building cast in shadows. The glass swam like it was melting, and as he neared, he realized it wasn’t clear. The panes were broken into jagged, colored edges. He didn’t need to read the sign out front to know it was Holy Angels Church.


Chapter 13