EPOCH Awakening by Jeffrey Panzer -
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New York, 2050: Daniel is enmeshed in a world in which he does not
belong, which he finds loathsome, intolerable. Orphaned as a young
child, he has in his 23 years never known family or friendship. The City
lies in the secure grip of the IDSC, a draconian organization charged
with the security and stability of the United States. This fact, ever
present, undeniable, seems far removed from a man who lacks not just a
sense of community but a sense of self as well. And he is plagued by
nightmares, which he cannot understand yet nonetheless push him toward
the unknown, the darkness of all that may be.
After meeting a
beautiful woman named Alena and her father Thorin, he and Thorin leave
The City, set on a mysterious destination known simply as The Centre.
The journey traces not only Daniel's path away from New York but also
the incremental revelation of his past and true self, bringing closer
the actuality of where he has come from, what he is, and what he is
destined to become.
24 years earlier, Peter, Andrew,
and a younger Thorin leave The Bay, set on a historic gathering in
Philadelphia, which unbeknownst to them will initiate events that will
change their lives, alter the very reality to which they've been
accustomed, forever.
Along the way they are joined by Edith,
a thoughtful, Kind girl from Salt Lake City, and meet Jonathan, a
mysterious man with a taste for good cognac and good times with Friends.
The situation in Philadelphia, however, is not what they expect, and
soon all turns to chaos, from which the friends emerge changed, each set
on different ends. Andrew enlists with a man called Michael, chairman
of an enigmatic organization known simply as IDSC. Thorin leaves to stay
with his fiancée in Washington D.C. Edith returns to her now seemingly
boring life in Salt Lake. Peter... Peter returns to San Francisco,
alone and disillusioned.
What none of them realize, what
they would never suspect, is that they are already being moved by an
intricate plan, a device of Fate and the vision of one who would change
the nature of the U.S. and the world itself. When they are at last
brought back together, the results are catastrophic, shaking their
world to the core.
Epoch Awakening is the first
chapter in an epic tale of political upheaval, personal growth and
discovery, and the burgeoning Spirit that will mark the New Age of this
world. Among its lines is found an in-depth discussion and development
of freedom, friendship, identity, and the significance of the stories we all read, write, and live every day.
Accountant Bernie Cohen cannot recall the first ten years of his
life. But with the assistance of a psychiatrist, exposes an undesirable
truth. An abandoned house close to Chernobyl holds the mystery of his
past, and Bernie hires The Collectors to retrieve something that should
have remained hidden.
