Publisher's Synopsis
While America descends into murderous chaos of economic disintegration, race, gender, and ethnic warfare and widespread criminality, survivors of a decades-long program, hidden in an isolated rural Midwesten area, intended to grow new humans from aborted fetuses are about to be exterminated by a confluence of forces who want any evidence of the program erased. Three Darwinian survivor teens, a powerful male, a brilliant but partly paralyzed male, and a gentle girl, all with only the derogatory names given them by the staff, struggle to save the few infants left after a raid by a black gang which exterminated almost all the other survivors, taking a few of the older girls if they were attractive. A physician who had participated in the program arrives at the camp just as the surviving teens are stopping the remaining staff from killing them. Having little experience outside the camp, the kids reluctantly link up with him. The disabled survivor had collected and saved the records of all the camp's residents, and struggled to fully understand them the strongest of the survivors is absolutely dedicated to finding his first love, a mixed-race young woman who had a healthy child with the hero. She was carried off by the black marauders who destroyed the camp, after her baby was sold to a childless couple. Along with the survivors' preserved records, there are books of the sale of aborted fetuses on the east coast the doctor wants retrieved and destroyed so the few survivors might be left alone. The companies and political forces involved also want the records and murderous forces are undashed against the kids. A dedicated Catholic priest in New York had learned of them and the camp and survivors and seeks them as well. The strong lad agrees to find the records, but first hunts down his love who is killed in his escape attempt. Another young woman is rescued by the two young men and they cannot abandon her to her circumstances. The disabled youth's maniacal purpose is to find the parents of all those fetuses sent to the camp. The two agree to go to the east coast because the hero's baby was sold there as are the parents of the young woman, though she is not much interested in her family, only the two young men and the babies they have saved. Under constant threat, they travel east, find the hero's toddler son and rescue him, learning of their heritage along the way. They discover the surviving girl's brother, an influential man, and connect with the Catholic priest and his office trying to find and preserve the records to stop abortion. The two try to watch over the survivors, as the two young men hurry back to the young women and infants with the rescued toddler. They are driven to the edge of Lake Superior but find their sanctuary unsafe after the doctor is killed by political assassins to silence him, as is the disabled survivor. The ragged group flees across the lake to Canada. They find protection among two religious groups, refugees and survivors themselves who have established adjacent settlements in the middle of Canada, one Eastern Orthodox and one Pentecostal. They protect the group, enfold them into their communities, help them build and establish a home, as the priest and the young survivor's brother, a New York politician, provide some influence and protection for the group. The hero finds safety and peace in family and ultimately in the children they-who had been thrown away before birth-produce themselves, the most blessed of human activity.
