Publisher's Synopsis
Nowhere to go. Nothing to eat.The only thing that survived, the only thing that could survive, was love-but only in the strongest."Village? There is no village. They are saying there's no longer a village anywhere. They burned everything down. Down flat. Trees, houses, churches, barns, the wheat fields." She swept her arm fully from left to right. "Everything is gone. They even..." She shook her head. "I don't know if I can say it. They burned everything. Everything. Even the cows and the chickens and the sheep." Those strange eyes once again bore into mine. "You could hear them crying out. I never knew a cow could scream." She turned away from me. "I never want to hear that again."
