Mia Barrias is taking a break from managing the governors reelection campaign to honeymoon in Carmichael a small resort town in Semiautonomous California But she wakes up to a nightmaresleeping gas wafts through the town selfdriving cars run people down in the streets and a man clad in black is killing people with a stunstick as he tells them to Believe and Live Can Mia survive long enough to outwit the man behind the massacre and bring help to the people of Carmichael including a special fouryearold named Victor Eastmore Believe and Live is a horrific short story and the explosive prelude to Broken Mirror