An excerpt from the upcoming prequel to Chosen:

Before The Great Collapse

The woman was hunched over and hurrying across the street to escape the rain when she died. Her eyes widened, a gasp escaped her lips, then her heart stopped and she collapsed like a discarded marionette. A sodden wad of shredded and cured ruby leaves fell from her slack mouth. Her vacant eyes stared at the double doors of the building she had looked after for almost a decade, but would never step inside again.

The wea...