title: How will the world end?
author:  Jeramie Rinne 
description: Jeramie Rinne was born and grew up in Las Vegas, and studied at Wheaton College and Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Jeramie became the Senior Pastor of South Shore Baptist Church in Hingham MA in 1997. He enjoys spending time with his wife Jennifer and four children, reading, playing board games, and pursuing outdoor activities.
zlib_text: This is the way the world ends. Again.
  
  Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an
  ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has
  brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty
  Sanze — the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's
  bedrock for a thousand years — collapses as most of its citizens are murdered
  to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast
  continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been been torn into the
  heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or
  centuries.
  
  Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land.
  Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of
  supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of
  nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources
  necessary to get through the long dark night. 