THE SHIFT OF 2012 shattered civilization as we know it. Governments crumbled as quickly as the granite buildings that housed their bureaucracy. Electricity soon escaped man's thralldom and the internal combustion engine quickly went the way of the dinosaurs. Humanity totters on the brink of a new Dark Age. Prior to THE SHIFT, a group of high-minded individuals armed with determination and foresight founded a community to promote life as they envisioned it should be. These spiritually devoted individuals recruited members with knowledge of medicine, agriculture, and engineering. In addition, individuals with psychic abilities were invited to join the new community known as Haven. Four hundred years later, the citizens of Haven enjoy an idyllic and peaceful existence. Haven is protected by The Sentinels, Wabanaki warriors descended from the Algonquin Nation. The Sentinels have added Asian martial arts to their traditional Native American skills and battle techniques. The Wabanaki love peace as much as those they ward, but are fierce in battle and faithful to the oaths that their forefathers swore long ago. Emlyn O'Donnell is a boy of unprecedented gifts. His education includes the subjects of: Meditative Awareness, Universal White Light, Astral Projection, Psychokinesis, Eastern Mysticism and Native American spirituality. He is unaware that evil stalks him. Young Emlyn and the citizens of Haven have need of The Sentinels, for evil cannot be slain by geological cataclysms. Its anger is not washed away by tidal waves. Volcanic fire cannot purge evil's hatred. It will feast upon the hopes and dreams of humanity. It will destroy love and peace, leaving despair and anguish in its wake. Evil waits patiently for its chance to strike....