What would the world be like if ninety percent of its population suddenly fell asleep?

In the Tike National Park a group of Mayan shamans led by Julius, a Mayan villager who has been educated in the United States, sit on the top of a temple waiting for the important event, the event predicted hundreds of years before  as part of a cycle change in the Tzollhin  (the Mayan calendar).  At the same time, hundreds of miles away, Joseph Davis watches helpless, as his family falls asleep before desperately asking a stranger for help. Janet Grayson, PhD, a well known nanotechnology scientist, wakes up in a hospital to find that the last things she remember happening did occur, but several months ago, not the day before.

Welcome to a world gone wrong. Gerald Tooney, a scientist who decided that nature needs saving over humanity. introduced a devastating, even deadly, nano-virus into the worlds water supply. This is to prevent the mass extinctions that he has come to believe will happen if humanity continues on the path it has been taking. The survivors are either dependent on a temporary vaccine that keeps them awake, or on the help and knowledge of enlightened practitioners of ancient techniques.

Dusk before the Dawn is the first book in the Enlightenment Cycle. Larry Ketchersid has created a world in conflict. The author weaves his tale together with scientific technologies and oriental mysticism to show the struggle between Gerald Tooney, who made this life affecting, world altering decision, and the growing resistance group working against him. These men and women are led by an enlightened Mayan scientist and his student Carlos who are trying to search out other survivors and find a way to re awaken the sleeping humans.