The Calm Before: The Catalyst, Book Two

Strange arches continue to call people to their doom, allowing the good to survive for forty days and the bad just seven. Despite the disasters that strike every September and claim countless lives, the world attempts to go on. But each year, as the catastrophes grow worse, the population drastically decreases. Now leaders meet in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the emerging arches and their effect on the future of the world; there is no question that another storm is coming.

In the calm before the next storm, twelve people attempt to live their lives amid chaos and uncertainty. A teenage girl, consumed by grief over her brother's death begins to rebuild her life, a woman betrayed by her husband finds comfort with a stranger, a young couple battles infertility issues, a young girl learns who her real parents are and an eighteen-year-old attempts to pick up the pieces of his life after everything is destroyed. Meanwhile, a military leader monitors one of the arches, frantically trying to piece together its puzzle and determine why the arches are summoning people in a particular order.

In this, the second part of this continuing science fiction tale, as powerful arches call their victims, a chain of events begins that eventually culminates in a horrific event that will change the world forever.