The year 2017 is nearing a close, and it seems as if the world is about to end. Dogs are howling in the streets, birds are dropping from the skyand then the power goes out. Everywhere. In everything. Except for a few people who seem to have prepared for this and who clearly have an agenda of their own.Neil Anapa is an NYC subway electrician. When someone blows up an army base, and the citys power goes out, he finds himself dragged into a world of conspiracy and danger. Sandra Keane, his ex-girlfriend, seems to know something about whats going on, judging from her strange phone messages, but she has problems of her own. And then theres Lindsay Fonacia, a researcher who has just landed an intriguing new projectone that might yield age-old answers to the very calamities theyre facing and to the plot Neil has become wrapped up in.Can they figure out whats going on and save the worldand themselvesfrom an ancient ritual and the people who seem determined to carry it out at any cost?