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In the year 1991, a plague strikes America killing everyone except a few thousand people who were "immune" to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those who serve G-d instinctively join together in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship the "Dark Man" are drawn to Las Vegas, Nevada. The two groups separately and independently re-build their societies, until it comes time for one to destroy the other (good vs. evil).

Franni Goldsmith comes very close to committing suicide. She feels that she can not deal with the death of her parents. She is unwed and pregnant. She is one of two sole survivors in her hometown of Ogunquit, Maine; the other is her recently deceased best friend's weirdo brother Harold Lauder. Fran puts her personal feelings aside for Harold, and g

When the group arrives in Boulder, they join over a thousand others who had dreamed of Abigail and this place. They inevitably form a society where they settled and conduct meetings to decide what they should do about the "Dark Man". Abigail tells the people that three of them, including Stuart, must be sent to destroy the "Dark Man". Meanwhile, Harold secretly leaves with the "Dark Man's" bride-to-be, Nadine, to Las Vegas. Along the way, Harold, who is ready to kill Stuart, is killed by "the will of G-d". Nadine makes it safely to Las Vegas before Stuart and his two companions are about to be hanged. Out of the sky "the hand of G-d" comes and destroys the "Dark Man" sparing the three men. After much hardship, Stuart returns to Fran and her newborn son and together they plant the seeds of a ne

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Approximate Word count = 546
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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