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When Pestilence comes for Sara Burn’s town, one thing is certain: everyone she knows and loves is marked for death. Unless, of course, the angelic-looking horseman is stopped, which is exactly what Sara has in mind when she shoots the unholy beast off his steed. Too bad no one told her Pestilence can’t be killed. Now the horseman, very much alive and very pissed off, has taken her prisoner, and he’s eager to make her suffer. Only, the longer she’s with him, the more uncertain she is about his true feelings towards her, and hers towards him. And now, well, Sara might still be able to save the world, but in order to do so, she'll have to sacrifice her heart in the process.

Jared Crandall’s life seems as broken as the Utah landscape surrounding him. With the Great Quake having shattered roads throughout the country and isolating him in his cabin, Jared assumes he will die alone. But Keith Martin, his old LDS missionary companion, finds him, arriving on an unusual motorcycle called the XEB. Keith brings a letter from Church headquarters asking Jared to serve again as his companion—to cross a desolate country where anarchy prevails and to fulfill a mission whose purpose is unclear. A call Jared cannot refuse.

As the war heats up, the Russian plant is producing significant quantities of rhenium, a rare Earth element used to produce alloys for jet engines, filaments for mass spectrographs and electrical contacts. And, according to a CIA agent named Cassandra, the Russians are going to move a large shipment of rhenium out of the Kyshtym facility to Moscow in 24 days. A decision is made at NATO headquarters. Rather than allow the Russians to transport the rhenium, the Allies will create a pop-up infantry battalion and send it into Russian territory to hijack the shipment.