Exitium Mundi

For a group of five close friends, spring break has tragically come to an end. Even though the school year is resuming, all they can think about is striking out on their own and taking their first real steps into adulthood. Together. They thought they had life figured out. They had no idea the dark forces pooling around them, centered on one of their very own, and how devastatingly their lives - and the world - was about to change....

Lyriq always had a hard time fitting in with others. His severe autism was only part of the problem.... Lyriq’s father recognized his musical ability when he was just a child and pushed him to compete in rap battles and songwriting competitions to help support the family. Lyriq not only excelled at these, but he mastered them. Making songs, rapping, was the only time he could truly express himself, where the world even remotely made sense. And then he met Sera, the daughter of his father’s friend, and everything in his world changed.

April learned at a very young age to never trust anyone, especially adults. As a survivor of the notorious Girl Fight tournament, she found herself bouncing from foster home to foster home, unwanted, broken, and lost. Every day was a long, drawn-out haze; every night a nightmare. And then, the dark clouds that covered her existence parted, revealing Susan, a woman who took her in, adopting her, loving her.

Sera had millions of social media followers, cameos on television and movies, and Lyriq - a childhood friend with a heart of gold. She was also the most popular girl in school. Every guy wanted to date her, every girl wanted to be her, and the one man lucky enough to claim her was none other than the sexy school bad boy himself. Sera had it all.

Mike is a man on the edge. He can’t seem to shake the trauma of the school shooting several weeks prior, an event that catalyzed his relationship with his now-girlfriend April, and the flashbacks are attacking him with increasing realism and frequency. Nothing seems to ease his haunting, not even April - who has become quiet and distant herself.

Jamie couldn’t believe it when she watched her former best friend, Jazmyn Eristov, fall to her death from a skyscraper on live television. She had an even harder time when she - and the world - found out that Jazmyn had somehow not only survived, but escaped from the hospital she was being treated in. And then came the torrent of social media videos, showing Jazmyn fighting strange, powerful people with incredible, otherworldly strength.

The world is beginning to crumble. April is pregnant. Jamie is newly engaged. Michael is on the edge of completely losing his mind. April's stepmother has finally revealed her true identity. And Dawn is missing. To punctuate all this, April is given an ultimatum by a creature almost as old as time itself, and her decision will decide the fate of not only her friends, but the world, as well.