Description
The world is gone.
But there are the remains of it.
Brother Tom is a charismatic idealist, who once suffered an excruciating crisis of faith in the ultimate good, but who found a new truth and returned to Andersonville to preach it. Now, each week, a small but growing number of people climb Service Hill and listen to his predawn sermons, drawn by their promise and simple message.
The town around Service Hill has lived off the land for twenty years, stubborn survivors of Cargo Flu. They lack everything, even running water, yet two young people are reinventing electric power, bringing a new optimism to people who thought they would not live to see it again.
And Brother Tom’s faith is endangering their lives.
Inevitably, the new faith finds its way into the nearby City, challenging no authority, yet salvaging lost souls who haunt crumbling areas long ago abandoned to the old plague. But a convert is learning secrets he can not live with, and is asking what is the meaning of faith if its believers must suppress the truth for it.
He does not accept the silence. And he does not expect to live to learn the answer.
