Darkness and Dawn - The Vacant World: Two Survivors Awake in a Shattered, Overgrown New York a Thousand Years After the End of the World

They went to sleep in a bustling metropolis. They woke up a thousand years later to a dead world.

High in the forty-eighth story of the crumbling Metropolitan Tower, a young stenographer, Beatrice Kendrick, and her brilliant engineer employer, Allan Stern, stir from an impossibly long slumber. Expecting the familiar roar of twentieth-century New York, they look out their window to see a horrifying, awe-inspiring sight: a city of steel transformed into a jungle of ivy and towering pines, the streets vanished beneath the earth, the bridges collapsed into the sea. The human race is gone.

As the ultimate survivors of an unknown cosmic cataclysm, Beatrice and Allan must descend into the labyrinth of a ruined civilization to scavenge for tools, food, and weapons. But the haunting silence of the overgrown streets hides new, terrifying dangers. A footprint in the dust, the howl of a wolfpack through the canyons of Wall Street, and the chilling discovery of a primitive flint spearhead suggest they might not be as alone as they thought.

Darkness and Dawn - The Vacant World is a masterwork of post-apocalyptic fiction. Equal parts thrilling survival adventure, haunting mystery, and tender romance, this gripping tale envisions a hauntingly beautiful reclaimed Earth where humanity's last hope rests in the hands of two people fighting to rebuild the world from the ashes of the past.