The last remnants of the world are falling to Whitebleak: a winter plague, spread by anomolous entities with motivations unknown. It is 2050, and humanity has outlawed most technology – returned to farming for survival. A young female author, one of a dying breed, is struggling to find readership; her daily cafe visits have acquainted her unwillingly with a strange priest, who promises the end of civilization at the hand of an angry God. He recruits her to join him on a journey into the vestiges of civilization, out beyond the walls, to document his miracles in a new holy book. His intentions are dubious, but the opportunity is too intriguing to resist…