Year one
Large print - 2017
"It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham,... practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river--or in the ones you know and love the most..."--
- Series
- Roberts, Nora. Chronicles of the One ;
bk. 1.
Thorndike Press large print core. - Subjects
- Genres
- Fantasy fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Dystopian fiction - Published
-
Waterville, Maine :
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
2017.
- Edition
- Large print edition
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- Author's series taken from cover.
- Physical Description
- 623 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781432844035
1432844032 - Main Author
A tale of suspense and survival is set in the wake of a cataclysmic pandemic that wipes out more than half the world's population, replacing science and technology with magic and compelling Lana, a practitioner of good witchcraft, to embark on a perilous journey west with her lover and other survivors. By a #1 best-selling author. (fantasy). Simultaneous.
Review by Publisher Summary 2With the world in chaos and survivors heading west, those immune to the sickness that decimated half the world's population and the gifted are targeted by the authorities.