Vanishing Hour

Seventy-year-old Matthew Werner, who suffers from a debilitating case of Not Normal, doesn''t know that nearly everyone on earth has died. He only knows that, out in the world, something terrible ...

Seventy-year-old Matthew Werner, who suffers from a debilitating case of Not Normal, doesn''t know that nearly everyone on earth has died. He only knows that, out in the world, something terrible is happening – something he''s not willing to discover. So he barricades himself inside and tries to stay ignorant. That is, until twelve-year-old Ruby Sterling shows up at his doorstep, all alone. The two have little in common. Matthew is old, strange, grumbly, and concerned only with figuring out what happened to his wife, who went missing months earlier. Ruby is serious, curious, and worried about