After The Impact Books in Order

After The Impact is Kenny Soward's post-apocalyptic survival series about a catastrophic meteorite strike and the people trying to live through its aftermath. The disaster shatters normal life quickly, leaving families divided, cities in chaos, and official shelters that can be as dangerous as the world outside them.

The first book, Shattered Skies, follows several characters during the early collapse. Nick Alvarez is trapped in New York City and trying to reach his family in Louisville, Kentucky. His wife, Christine, known as Chris, must protect the people around her on a horse farm. Their daughter Gabby is searching for purpose and safety in a situation that does not leave much room for either.

Survival looks different from every angle.

• C rumbling Dawn* continues as Nick searches for a way home, Chris faces urgent needs at the farm, and Gabby becomes caught in the pressures of a FEMA camp. The later books widen the story through detention camps, refugee camps, dangerous secrets, and hard choices about whom to trust when systems built to help people begin to fail.

The series is a multi-viewpoint disaster story. It balances large-scale destruction with personal concerns: medical care, family separation, food, security, grief, and the question of whether a damaged community can still become a home. Nick, Chris, Gabby, and the people around them have different skills and fears, so the story does not pretend there is one right way to survive.

Expect a tense, character-focused journey through the early months of a broken world. The books are connected closely, and each installment pushes the survivors into a new version of the same central problem: how do you keep moving when the life you knew may not be coming back?

Start with Shattered Skies, then continue in order. The series gains much of its force from following the family and their allies through the consequences of the original impact.