The Remnant

When the Bible is outlawed and the devout forced underground a tattered page with just a scrap of the Sermon on the Mount serves as a touchstone for a faithful few on the run. Fast-paced and chilling The Remnant (CWR Press) is by award-winning author Monte Wolverton. Its a physical and spiritual expedition through a dystopian world ultimately offering hope in these perplexing and challenging times.In the year 2069 the Apocalypse came and went but Jesus didnt show up. Instead a cataclysmic war left a totalitarian government ruling the world and it bans all forms of religion. Those who insist on practicing religion are imprisoned in work camps around the world.An inmate in a North Dakota work camp Grant Cochrin hears rumors of isolated Christian communities in the lawless Wilderness. Escaping with his family and friends he begins a quest. During their long dangerous journey the Cochrins and their friends encounter a series of bizarre religious communities but none of them seem right. Just as they are ready to abort their quest and start their own settlement they are ambushed by a gang of human traffickers and faced with an unthinkable dilemma.Monte Wolverton is an award-winning author and syndicated editorial cartoonist and an associate editor of CWR magazine. He is an ordained minister and holds a MA from Goddard College in Vermont. Along with his wife Kaye he makes his home in southwest Washington State.