"In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice. Will they hoard their possessions to survive -- or trust God to provide as they offer their resources to others? .... a what-if series in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world."--p. [1].

As the end of the worldwide blackout comes in sight, thirteen-year-old Beth Branning witnesses two brutal murders and Deni Branning is torn between Mark Green and her ex-fiance, who has returned to Crockett.