In the twinkling of an eye, they were gone.
Babies vanish from their cribs. A copilot disappears at thirty thousand feet. The Vice President of the United States is gone from the President’s side on live television.
Josh Gibbons saw it happen. One moment the woman he was falling for turned to him with a question on her lips. The next, he was holding nothing at all.
Within days, President Michael Vale gives a terrified world the answer it is desperate to believe: We are not alone. And only Vale, with tech visionary Silas Rook’s orbiting defense grid, can keep humanity safe.
But Josh Gibbons, a skeptical engineer who walked away from God decades ago, knows something the world does not. The hidden shell of satellites now guarding the sky is one he drew himself, twenty years ago. He has a childhood Bible on his nightstand, a father who kept a Cold War secret for sixty-seven years, a voice he heard at midnight three months before, and a growing certainty that the greatest deception in history has only just begun.
The Bride is taken. The world is left behind. And the clock has started.
