His eyes blink. The music stops. Hymnals thud on the floor. Eighteen-year-old Jeff Howard's terror-filled eyes dart across the sanctuary. He knows. The pastor hasn't been trying to scare people to the altar after all. Mom and Dad are eternally gone. Yes, Jeff knows. Pride in his position in the World Security Force soon turns into mortal fear—for himself and those whose deaths he is responsible for. Will Amanda be one of them? Sixteen-year-old Amanda Fountain doesn't know. Finding herself desperately alone after her beloved father disappears, she fiercely determines to find out what has taken place and prepares herself so she can escape Hell. Against the odds of evil, she changes the empty sanctuary into a place of refuge. How long can they survive in a world filled with unspeakable evil and life-stifling terror when no one can be trusted? Can they trust each other?