Jeffrey Kilgore is an ordinary man. A structural engineer in a small Colorado mountain town. A husband. A father of two. But when an EMP attack kills the grid, fries every car and phone in the country, and plunges America into darkness, ordinary is no longer enough.
Because the man in the green coat was watching the school a week before the lights died. Somebody knew this was coming. And now organized convoys are working their way up the valley, town by town, harvesting everything and everyone in their path.
Fort Granby has six weeks until winter. Nine days of food. One road in. And a choice every survivor must make: open the gates, or fight.
What follows is a desperate journey through a collapsing world. A siege that demands everything. A burned town. A hundred mile trek down the highway of the lost, where starving families and armed predators walk the same broken road. And waiting at the end, a shadowy organization that turned out the lights on purpose, and is not finished yet.
Inside this gripping post-apocalyptic survival thriller you will find:
- A family worth fighting for. Jeffrey, his schoolteacher wife Kathy, and their two children must each become something the old world never asked them to be, without losing what makes them human
- Realistic prepper detail and hard survival choices. Food storage, water, defense, radio intelligence, and the brutal math of who you can save when there is not enough for everyone
- Unforgettable characters and relentless tension. A giant gap-stander with a WWII rifle, a girl who reads danger like a book, traitors inside the wall, and an enemy that plans years ahead
Perfect for fans of One Second After, Lights Out, and Going Home. If you love EMP fiction, grid-down survival stories, and tales of ordinary families enduring the unthinkable, the Kilgores are waiting.
