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Set in rural Western Colorado shortly after World War II, 17-year-old Gloria Knight's life is shattered when she is raped after her high school graduation dance and her fiancé is falsely charged with the crime. Her father, the most powerful man in Goodwin County, orchestrates a cover-up of the crime with the local sheriff and judge. An outraged Gloria then sets in motion a chain of events that could irreversibly end an era when one man ruled the county.

Jet is different. Able to feel the emotions of those around him, he chooses to spend his days in solitude, pushing out the feelings that attempt to consume him. With numbness his only relief, he's surprised when he finds himself letting someone in, actually wanting - craving - to feel what she feels. Even though he was warned to stay away from Kalista LaFontain, Jet didn't listen, not caring what family she came from, knowing she wasn't like them. Somehow, she was able to make the emotions that assaulted him on a daily basis more bearable.

School is out and Jimmy is finally free. In book two of the three-part All Saints series, we find our young hero flipping burgers in a grease joint. But for all the cow guts and blow flies, life has never been sweeter. He's in a band, meeting girls, and generally doing everything he can to abuse the freedoms of adulthood, without being encumbered by its responsibilities. Of course, every story needs a bad guy.

Two cities divided by the great war, continental shift, and the idea of a pure world put into action by the elders years before. Their plan to purify the earth by killing all the adults on the children's 18th birthday via devise implanted in their chest. Their only hope is Athena, a young girl awakened from a strange dream with a desire to travel to Ballow, knowing the time bombs must be stopped from detonating. The race is on, but will she be too late?