Virgin — James Patterson

ONLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE US NOW.

As the world prays, the Vatican watches, waiting in horror as the terrifying prophesy long held secret is about to be fulfilled. One young virgin shall bear the child of light. Another shall spawn the beast of everlasting darkness.

The year is 1987, a time centuries removed from the first humble beginnings in Bethlehem, seventy years after the miracle of Fatima when the Blessed Virgins appeared to give a message to mankind. The message was a promise -- and a warning. Now, as prophesied, the signs were beginning:

Hoards of snakes invading the hillsides of Mexico's Madre Oriental Mountains.

Sightings of a massive comet hurtling toward the earth.

Reports from Newport, Rhode Island, of a young girl, mysteriously pregnant -- and a virgin.

These were the first indications, a series of unconnected events, baffling and mysterious, excepts to one man who recognized them for what they were; omens, clear warning that the Virgin's promise was about to be fulfilled with an event so extraordinary that it threatened to explode the natural order of creation and send it spinning into chaos. The Second Coming was at hand…