The Dark Era
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Last published Fri, Aug 2, 2013
Everything was perfect it seemed too good to be true for the world. And it surely was.
One fateful twilight marked the beginning of THE DARK ERA, the most dreadful period of human existence.
At first it was just an earthquake, not to mention the strongest ever in the history of United States of America, and then it began to drizzle blood-looking liquid. People ran for cover, but it was too late. The mystical substance began to mutate the human genes, turning everyone who'd made contact with it into horrible cannibals.
Carlie Stanwick, her husband Dean Stanwick and their daughter, Rain Anderson, Sean Tauber, Laurence McAllister, Luna Duquesne, her husband Jake Duquesne and her son. The only survivors of the terrible catastrophe. Their fates are intertwined together, and the only way to make it to Arcadia, the only infection-free place on the entire Earth, is to help each ther make it through each day.
But with their raging conflict and miles-away differences, will they all make it there unscathed?
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