Verna Zee was the replacement senior editor for the Chicago office of Global Weekly following Lucinda Washington's disappearance in the Rapture in "Tribulation Force". Her relationship with Buck Williams was rather confrontational due to his recent behavior regarding his whereabouts in the United Nations meeting Nicolae Carpathia had held in "Left Behind". She intended to have Buck work right in the office, but after a talk with Stanton Bailey she reluctantly permitted him to work straight from his apartment. Following events that left Chicago devastated in World War III, Verna tried to be friends with Buck, his wife Chloe, and New Hope Village Church's secretary Loretta, whom she stayed with for a time when she lost her residence. However, upon seeing the now-fugitive Tsion Ben-Judah appe