EMP: Into the Badlands: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller

Four months into the blackout, Ruby June is walking east across the North Dakota badlands with a canteen, a pistol, and a sister in Minot who may or may not still be alive. She has learned to go around towns. She has learned to go around people. She has learned exactly how many seconds it takes to become someone who can walk past a stranger calling for help.Julian Ferne has lost everything except his sense of humor. Together, he and Ruby June pick up a nurse and her son fleeing a man who took their root cellar and left a receipt. Later joining them is an old water engineer with a poisoned well and an ex-Marine who's looking for redemption.Deep in the badlands, there is a place up north. It has walls, and wells, and a school with nineteen children in it. Its leader, Joel Herod, doesn't lie, doesn't steal, and doesn't raise his voice. Ruby June and Julian's new group of misfits is about to find out just what kind of a man Joel Herod really is.