Ruin - The Ruin Saga #1

Before the End there had been great cities, knowledge, power, bustling billions. All silenced when the vast majority of the worlds population, quite suddenly, vanished.

After forty years, an ominous force is laying waste to the survivors, and famine has struck. Norman Creek is struggling to feed the many mouths of New Canterbury, which clings to life while thousands starve or burn out in the wastes. Yet still they collect books, computers, art, saving all they can. They have a mission: to begin again.

And Norman has a destiny: to lead them, prophesized at birth...

Shadow has fallen over the remains of the Old World. Decades after the apocalypse, Norman Creek and the mission of New Canterbury face a world turned hostile by famine and betrayal. Struggling to save all they can before civilisation vanishes forever, they face a grave new enemy that lurks somewhere in the vast wastes. Fires are appearing on the horizon, swarms of mysterious birds plague the sky, and rumours are spreading of an army gathering in the North. As darkness draws ever closer around them, supernatural forces entwine a chosen few in a battle between good and evil, one that may decide...