Grid Down on the 4th of July: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller

The Fourth of July was supposed to be the best day of the year.Then every engine in the county died at the same second.No cars. No phones. No generators. No planes overhead. Farmer Greg Loving is standing on a crowded lakeshore with his family when the modern world simply stops, all at once, everywhere, and his fifteen-year-old daughter says the word nobody wants to hear.It was an EMP. And it isn't coming back.Home is twenty-two miles away. Between here and there lie dead highways, burning towns, and thousands of stranded people about to realize that no one is coming to help. Greg has a half-drowned son, a family that has never once thought about where the food comes from, and until sundown to get them all home alive.But home was never going to be safe.LeRoy Gaines owns half the county, and the end of the world is the best thing that ever happened to him. He has food, fuel, guns, and men who jump when he points. He wants the Loving farm. He wants Greg's daughter. And he has already shown, in one burning street, exactly what he does to families who tell him no.To survive, Greg will build something out of strangers, thieves, and refugees, all alongside the Amish who have lived without electricity for four hundred years. He will choose who lives and who walks on. And when it comes down to one man, one torch, and one impossible choice, he will learn what the new world costs, and what it is worth.