The night before twenty-one-year-old Carly Shanahan takes her little brother and three friends on a three-day caving expedition, Sanford, the elderly eccentric owner of the cave, begins to quote quatrains written by Nostradamus. The next day, shortly after entering the cave, an earthquake traps the group inside with the old man and his notebook.
Twenty miles away, a cluster of prisoners on a work release program inside a coalmine plans an escape. Just as the prisoners, led by a vicious psychopath, brutally murder two guards, the same earthquake also traps them underground. Days later, when both groups finally escape from their subterranean confinement, the world is a very different place.
Is it possible Sanford is actually a conduit, prophesizing from the past? Did he somehow know that world-changing events were about to unfold? Carly must use Sanford and Nostradamus’s quatrains as a guide to find a way to save her companions while also somehow preventing the extinction of mankind. She might not be prepared to play the role thrust upon her, but the fate of her friends and the world now depends on her ability to make the right decisions.
Carly spun around to see Willy holding a pistol. He was switching his aim between the shirtless man, the boss, and Cahill who was presently struggling to stand up after the hard kick to the groin. Willy was blinking rapidly and was shaking almost uncontrollably from head to toe. Carly was confused what had happened, and wondered how Willy had gotten a gun, but she was shaken back to the immediacy of the moment by Willy’s voice.
Willy screamed, “Any of you…” his voice cracked, so he began again, “Any of you move a muscle or try to draw your weapon, and I swear to God I’ll kill you. You, yeah you! Big smelly guy, sit your ass back down! I got first place in the Eastern Tennessee target pistol competition!”
Carly acted quickly. She jumped over to the dead body and grabbed the pistol from the dead man’s still warm hand. She quickly walked behind the boss who was standing very still with his arms loosely at his sides. She grabbed his shirt and jabbed the gun in the middle of his back and pushed it against his spine.
Sanford stood up, wiped himself off and exclaimed, “Carly, it’s time for me to give you some non-cryptic advice. We need to get out of this place as quickly as possible!”
Carly said calmly to the boss, “We are going to leave here nice and easy. If you or any of your men try anything, I shoot you in the spine. Once we are out of here, I’ll let you go. Like I said before, we are just going to disappear.”
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