Set several years before the events in the first two "Ember" books, this story focuses on a young girl who travels to Yonwood, NC during a very unstable time. The world is verging on war and terrorist from both sides are everywhere. In Yonwood, NC a woman named Althea Towers has a vision of destruction and the world ending. She stuck in an awake comatose state where she mumbles random things. The people of the town believe that she is uttering instructions to keep the town from being destroyed. So everyone, seems to do everything that she says. Nikki comes from Philadelphia and is helping her aunt restore and sell her great-great uncle's (I can't recall exactly how he is related) old house. During this time, the "instruction" from the prophet are starting to become more and more absurd. Or more and more misunderstood.
This book was actually very good. It's currently the third in the "Ember" series. I was surprised because it's suppose to be a prequel and most of the time, that doesn't go well for the series. It was nice to see how in the end the story actually came together and made a little sense. How the past managed to connect to what is currently happening in the books. I do wish that it would have gone into more detail about what actually happened with the Disasters, yet it only describes the events leading up to it. I wouldn't say that the story deals directly with the previous two books, but does indirectly. Overall, the story was really good, characters very well developed and I really enjoyed it.
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