The Return - Part 2: Millennial Dawn

Robert still had half the length of the country to travel, before he reached Sierra. With theturmoil gripping the world he worried she might not be alive by the time he reached California.Not too long ago, Robert could have simply taken a two-day bus ride to reach her. But now,gangs, pockets of civil unrest, and the Nationalist government itself stood in the way of himsafely finding the woman he loved and asking her to marry him. It seemed that every communityhe traveled through needed his help . . . and Heavenly Father wanted him to do exactly that.Sierra struggles to survive. Life in California was under new management and thegovernment wasn’t interested in helping the people. Caught between an evil government, theincreasing power of local street gangs, and a resistance movement that has claimed the lives ofher father and one of her brothers, she finds it increasingly more difficult to remain neutral. Nomatter what side she takes . . . she’s bound to die.Sarah finds the comfort in her marriage to Barth that has long escaped her. Her efforts tobe a good neighbor aren’t enough in the politically divisive climate of her home town. Violentmobs of anti-Christians patrol the streets, looking for any excuse to pounce on the portion of thepopulation they blame for all the world’s problems.John is once again far from his family, leading a wagon train east. This band of modern-day pioneers plan to build New Jerusalem in anticipation of the Second Coming. But being wellprepared makes them a target for bands of ex-military, bandits, and starving civilians. Is thedream of utopian city in which Christ will dwell too good of thing to be true?Set in the near-future, The Return – Part 2: Millennial Dawn is the final book in TheGathering series, which follows the lives of good people from an ordinary family as they face thedevastation of the apocalypse.