She spent her whole life avoiding conflict. The apocalypse doesn’t care.
Six weeks after burying her husband, Alex Jensen is evicted by her mother-in-law with nothing but an old camper, two dogs, and three kids she can barely hold together. She flees to a remote Florida campground, hoping for space to grieve and time to breathe.
Then a coded warning arrives from a trusted source inside the government: Prepare for the worst.
While the world argues about politics and rumors, Alex and a small group of strangers quietly prepare in a hidden limestone cave system, praying the warning is wrong.
It isn't.
When the sirens wail and the missiles fall, Alex leads her group underground. But surviving the fallout is only the beginning. The strangers who huddled together in the dark have become the only family she has left. And on the surface, a desperate man with a grief of his own is building a world where safety comes at the cost of everything that makes it worth surviving.
She never fought for anything before. The new world is about to find out what happens when she does.
Perfect for fans of the found family in Emily St. John Mandel's "Station Eleven" and the classic Florida survival of Pat Frank's "Alas, Babylon".
