<b>Following a volcanic eruption in Wyoming and the devastating emergence of another wicked virus, Mercedes Singleton finds herself lost in a grey world.</b><br><br> Nothing can fill her emptiness in faith, love and hope. <br><br>Then she meets Olivia, a fellow nurse at her hospital, and discovers that God, the Holy Spirit, is real while attending her underground church. <br><br>When they are arrested for illegal activities, they are sent to a rehabilitation camp. Through the secret intervention of her childhood friend Mack Gersham, working for a subversive Army organization , she is freed, only to find that chaos, sickness, and espionage await her in her hometown of Whitsville in the person of Ricardo Monsanta who boards with her family.