ANGELS OF THE APOCALYPSE
Jennifer Hilary
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(Firethorn Press, March 30, 2017)
From Jennifer Hilary, best-selling author of Tender Branches, Staying Alive and This Wasn’t Supposed to Happen, a new tale:A lovely autumn day, a high school field trip to a historic abbey, a monastery. The visitors cross the lake to the isolated ancient abbey, which had been shipped stone by stone from England and lovingly rebuilt. It is now an active monastery with an attached small convent. They step out into a lovely natural world of wildlife, birds and autumn foliage. But within the next hours they lose a beloved mentor. The abbey seems ominous now, dark, frightening. The four white horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famine, Pestilence and Death come charging into the quiet contemplative world, unseen perhaps, but real in their battle with the Angels of the Apocalypse whom the prayerful believe strive invisibly to protect the community. The abbey is no longer limited to just the religious, but frightened young visitors and their teachers. We learn of their lives, their dreams, and take heart at their drive to survive, their clever solutions to life’s new challenges. Romance blooms even in the Dark Times. As they work together in their new community, the eternal questions are asked and asked again. Will there be answers?