About the book: 2018 / The ships came at dawn. Dean's wife is dead. Her last words: “When the ships come... put on the necklace.” Then the ships arrived. Cities around the world have reported strange alien ships descending. Some saw them as heralds of a new era; others shot at them with everything they had. Everyone was captured as the beams lashed down and carried them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last person on Earth. A chain of clues left behind by his late wife leads Dean on a dangerous journey across America and beyond to discover the truth about the mysterious ships and save humanity from destruction. But not everything is as it seems. The Event is the first epic novel from Nathan Hystad, creator of the bestselling anthology series Explorations and the new epic Survivors».