Black Autumn: Faith & Family Editions Books in Order

The Black Autumn Faith and Family Editions take the core premise of the original saga and retell it for readers who want the stakes and realism without the rougher language and heavier on page violence. The focus leans more toward questions of calling, conscience, and family than toward graphic detail.

The first volume, Homestead: Black Autumn Part One, follows former Green Beret Jeff Eriksson and his family as a small nuclear blast in Los Angeles triggers a cascading national collapse. They flee city life for the Homestead, an eccentric mountain compound where preppers, veterans, and ordinary families have tried to build a refuge in advance.

Once there, Jeff, his wife, and their children have to navigate both outside threats and the complicated personalities inside the fence. The same problems as the main series food, water, medical care, security, leadership are all present, but the storytelling gives more room to prayer, forgiveness, and the ways faith can both unite and divide a frightened community.

These adaptations run alongside a film and television version of the story, keeping many of the same characters and key events while trimming or reshaping scenes that might not work for younger viewers. Readers who enjoyed the movie or show can use Homestead as a way to stay longer in that world, picking up additional backstory and interior moments that do not fit on screen.

For longtime fans of the original Black Autumn novels, the Faith and Family line offers a chance to share the setting with teens or more sensitive readers without handing them the full, unfiltered series. New readers can start here to get the outline of the Homestead story, then decide later whether to dive into the grittier main saga or stay with the cleaner, more devotional perspective this branch provides.