Brad Beals

Blood Bound Brad Beals

[from the back cover] A generation ago pandemic spread across the face of the earth, and the olders were taken, and humanity's dominion was brought to nothing. Ten thousand years of gathered knowledge wiped away. And so the children of man started over. It is now two generations after the Dying, and John Roy Mench - husband, father of four, son of a prophet - is thriving in this new age. He lives peacefully among friends in a peaceful town. He plants his crops in the spring and brings in a harvest in the fall. He works hard for six days and rests on the seventh. As the Old Testament puts it, he lives under his own vine and fig tree. But it's a hard life, and when a new plague threatens him and his family, John Roy packs up everyone he loves and sets out on the road. But he soon finds that what awaits him there is just as brutal, just as deadly as any disease. Blood Bound is a story of faithfulness in the midst of suffering and courage in the face of violent death. But more than these, it is a story of grace - the severe, scandalous, and irresistible grace that belongs only to God.