Year One: Chronicles of The One, Book 1 (Unabridged)
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4.4 • 208 Ratings
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (December 2017)
A stunning novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts - Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives...
It began on New Year’s Eve.
The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.
Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river - or in the ones you know and love the most.
As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.
In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.
The end has come. The beginning comes next.
Customer Reviews
Such a fantastic story
This first book draws you in. I couldn’t stop listening once I started. Once you’ve finished this you can read the next two in the series. When I originally heard this book it had just come out and had to wait months for the second and just as long for the last to come out. You won’t have to 😋
Original and Complex
Great character development and a story that’s very original without the unnecessary filler material of graphic exploits if the physical.
Got me, hook, line and sinker.
I’ve always been a fan of NR. I’ve been reading her works for over 20years now. Some I have in hard cover.. this book hooked me. Yes, there is lots of drama.. I like that she bounces from character to character to move the story along, it give me an understanding of “all rivers lead to the ocean” kind of thing. I would definitely recommend this book. Narrator is fantastic.