Two nervous west Texas teenagers on their first date are suddenly engulfed in a horrific thunderstorm and take shelter in an old barn. When the storm subsides, the barn is gone ... and so is everything else, except their bicycles. They ride their bikes on a mysteriously well-maintained road in an otherwise barren land to an ancient castle whose single resident claims to already know them. Edward and Marianne have been whisked thousands of years into the future and their only hope of returning to their own world and time is to follow a mysterious traveler named Marcus and a hulking warrior...

"If time ends today, then yesterday is no longer a reference point." Edward Garrett and his young wife Marianne have been living back in the twenty-first century for four years now. Marianne has won a gold medal at the Olympics ... and Edward? He's been stuck in a dead-end job, dreaming of the days when he led armies and walked the lands of the far future with Marcus and Daniel. A parade in Marianne's honor in their hometown is cut short by a storm, an enormous storm like only Edward and Marianne have seen before. When it subsides, they are back in the future they once knew, even closer to...

Edward Garrett finds himself washed up on the shore of a foreign land, shipwrecked As he tries to find his way home, he becomes involved with The People, a friendly but reserved people who live along the coast and are being harassed by brigands from the mountains, known as the Brazee. Thinking that Marcus has brought him here for just this reason, Edward agrees to lead a posse into the mountains to try and retrieve four teenage girls who were captured by the Brazee. Edward's greatest desire is to leave, to go find his beloved Marianne and let her know he didn't die in the great battle by the...

Jerry was just a college kid trying to catch one more weekend of fun before senior year when the ash hit. His college, his home town, his family-all wiped out in the blink of an eye. With the nation teetering on the edge of ruin, he joins the military to help with the search and rescue but finds that the powers that be want to use this natural disaster as cover for an unnatural war. The last war. Winner take all that's left. In the satellite photos, though, he sees evidence that the lands where he grew up might still have some green grass. With no idea whether anyone still lives there, Jerry...

Josh Overstreet and his sister Claire have been carving a life out of the ash for more than half a decade, unsure whether anyone yet lives outside the small valley where they have established their town of Overstreet with two dozen others. Then Deanna Pembleton stumbles into the valley, asking for help for herself and her friends. Claiming they have eked out a life much like that of the people of Overstreet, she begs assistance, which Josh is willing to give. She is, however, clearly unhinged on some level. Could the people she is claiming to want to help just be figments of her imagination?...

Ash. Siblings Josh and Claire were out with a detail of locals trying to replant the Selkirk area following the previous summer's fire when the ash hit. They had seen a lot of ash, but not like this. This was a wall two miles high that swept through and buried everything. Everything. Some said it had to be the result of a volcanic eruption. As far as anyone can tell, the two-score people who have made their way to the valley are the last people left alive in the world. Everyone is trying to survive, but Josh is determined to thrive. With Claire by his side, he begins to rally the people to...

Joe Whitcomb is a preacher, but he's starting to hate God. Blaming God for killing his wife and daughter, Joe calls himself a "recovering Christian" and vows to leave religion and its crutches behind. Ellen Leads used to be a promising student even though she came from an abusive home. Off at college, all was going well, she thought, until her whole life was derailed by drink and now she calls herself a "recovering alcoholic." Sometimes, running from your problems is easier if there's someone running with you. Neither has actually dealt with their problems, though, just shoving them further...

Brad Reynolds comes home to Medicine Park, OK, to take over his father's old business and try to put his life back together after a divorce. He's fitting in, he's meeting great new people, he's even started attending a Bible study. Brad's a great guy by everyone's account. What they don't know is that he has an addiction. He's kept it well-hidden so far, but it's already destroyed his marriage and it will soon destroy his whole life. So Brad tries to bury it, to ignore it, to power his way through it ... but it keeps escaping from the box he keeps it in.