Year One : v. 1 : The Chronicles of One

Summary: "[Beginning on New Year's Eve], everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated [by illness]. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil . . . As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too . . . In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why"--Provided by publisher.