Near Death — Stephen Donald Huff

Played out through the lives of countless human beings, two shape-shifting entities, one of darkness and one of light, wage an endless contest of good and evil that will ultimately decide the fate of the human race. Their battleground is the unknown territory of the individual soul, and their weapons are the corporeal vessels of our bodies. In this contest, we are most vulnerable when trauma has stripped us of our consciousness and left us hovering near death. In that ephemeral space between, both light and shadow dwell, while chance and the mysterious laws of the universe determine the individual fate. More than five hundred years ago, the Black Death circumnavigated the globe, laying waste to human populations on all inhabited continents of the planet. During that time, evil openly stalked the Earth and only the fortunate survived. Today, this ancient evil will return. The coming plague will be infinitely more deadly and the body count will be nearly complete. At the brink of extinction, a single light will rally against eternal nightfall, and it shines in shadow-bound realms, Near Death.