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, an aging engineer who walked away from God decades ago, has a childhood Bible on his nightstand, 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.
