"The Day The World Stopped"

Can you imagine stepping off a plane and seconds later see planes all around you fall to the ground? You rush to the safety of the airport to find it dark. You'll reach for the phone to call for help and find it dead. You wait for rescue vehicles to arrive but none do as no cars will start. Even generators won't start.

In Terri Blackstock's first book in her new series this is exactly what happens. Everyone is left terrified of some strange terrorist attack or is it something else entirely? The entire nation is left wondering how they will ever get to their families at home. In the midst of this nightmare it's everyone for themselves as people will fight in the streets over bicycles.

In Birmingham, Alabama the Branning family was ready to welcome their daughter who recently graduated from college. As they make plans for her upcoming wedding they must now struggle instead to learn basic survival techniques. How will they eat? Their high tech home with every modern convenience means little now except for a roof over their heads.

It's time for the Brannings to remember their faith. Will God provide in the face of adversity? Doug, the father leans ever more heavily on his faith and reminds his family to do the same.

Soon the entire neighborhood is pulling together to help each other however when people are found murdered in their own homes, everyone is a suspect. Who is the killer among them?

With many bestselling novels under her belt, Blackstock delivers yet another winner. This book is guaranteed to keep you turning pages long into the night.

"When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God I trust: I will not be afraid. What can moral man do to me?"

Psalm 56:3-4

Reviewed by Shelby Bagby
Posted November 7, 2005

Summary

In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, Deni Branning's career ambitions have vanished. She's not about to let her dream of marriage go as well. But keeping it alive will require extraordinary measures. Yesterday's world is gone. All Deni and her family have left is each other and their neighbors. Their little community will either stand or fall together. But they're only beginning to realize that—and trust doesn't come easily. Particularly when one of them is a killer. Bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if novel in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human hearts—and lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world.