Losing her husband in a car crash was devastating for Jude. But soon, she and her family are fighting for their very lives as something sinister invades the entire world-something she had always heard about but thought she wouldn't see. But now it was here-in her world-in her city-in her neighborhood Seemingly overnight, the world is thrown into upheaval. Bold, new terrorist attacks on U.S. home shores as well as on an international level are at an all-time high. World leaders create a census in order to find traditional Believers in a malevolent plan to contain them all. Political unrest begins to gain momentum, propelling the world deeper into the chaos, unknowingly preparing the way for the rise of the long-foretold apocalypse.