Author Description

Gabriel Thomas watches the world flood from inside his Pennsylvania school with other children with nowhere else to go. Suddenly, he's filled with the Holy Spirit as God chooses him to lead an "Elect" few to paradise. Gabriel leads 11 other children, on God's instructions, to establish a community on a nearby mountain while the world floods. Twenty years and a second flood later, the remains of humanity are divided into the Elect on Spring Mountain and the cannibalistic Golgoths who terrorize survivors outside it. Seven young adults in the South all have the same dream, featuring Gabriel. In Alabama, Booker Bailey, a scholar, recently lost his parents to the Golgoths. Marshall Langar just discovered that his common-law wife aborted her pregnancy and wants him to leave their Tennessee cabin. In Georgia, Arabella Pendleman and Tatum Winters are convinced by the devout Christian Aliyah Freedman and Dodie Sealy to leave for Spring Mountain, and in Tennessee, Jayden Bonner, a musician and astrologer, does the same. Second Coming follows young adult survivors called to rise above loneliness to join others in good works, or embrace a world gone bad, battling internal and external forces seeking to consume them. The seven meet on the Appalachian Trail, evading Golgoths called north by their leader, Hostis Dei, in preparation for a final battle.