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4-6Survivors series.
Bread delivery boy Brendan and an unhappily betrothed girl from Chinatown, Dai Yue, make for unlikely companions as their paths cross during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Duey and Bale's incorporation of interesting cultural and historical details work to offset the formulaic structure of this series in which strangers must work together to survive crisis.