The Second Adam
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Nuclear physicist, genetic engineer, social influencer, and billionaire Gale Herald has a vision for the future of the human species. He has hand-picked a few choice specimens of the human race, bred them or stolen their children, and raised them in a private compound in Norway. Curated into a religious cult based on his own ethical principles, the Omen have been entirely protected from the outside world. To allow them to survive the collapse of modern civilization, (which he is orchestrating,) he built a series of secluded self-sustaining garden domes in the mountains of Colorado in which to install his perfect utopian society. But when the Norwegian military forces Gale out of the country and he is forced to move his pet project sooner than expected, and the domes aren't completed, the community must be temporarily housed in an abandoned summer camp in upstate New York. Follow Lars, Gale's assistant in charge of moving the Omen, and Adam, the head of the Omen community, as they try to navigate this unexpected transition from one reality to another, and what happens when Adam gets separated from the community and lost in modern civilization.
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