EMP Survival in a Powerless World Books in Order
Part ofJames Hunt Books in OrderExplore the EMP Survival in a Powerless World books by Alexandria Clarke in order, with summaries, series notes, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
39 books
Broken Lines
by James Hunt
2014
After an EMP wrecks the country, a prepper is separated from his family and presumed dead. While they head for a cabin in the woods, he fights his way through the collapse to find them.
Surviving the Collapse
by James Hunt
2017
When an EMP brings New York to its knees, pilot Kate Holloway is cut off from the people she loves most. Getting home becomes a brutal fight through a city losing order by the hour.
Aftermath
by James Hunt
2019
Lights Out
by James Hunt
2019
No Power
by Alexandria Clarke
2019
An EMP throws Los Angeles into chaos, and Ailani Ho's first goal is simply to survive. Then she learns her sister was on a plane when the grid went down, and standing still is no longer an option.
Static
by James Hunt
2019
A Chicago architect's life is already fraying when an EMP throws the country into chaos. To keep her family together, she has to move fast and trust very carefully.
Storm Surge
by James Hunt
2019
The Final Homestead
by James Hunt
2019
After an EMP strike wipes out power and communication, rancher James Bowers has to get his wife and son out of the chaos swallowing San Antonio. He soon learns hunger is not the only enemy left.
The Final Stand
by James Hunt
2019
An EMP hits on the day a family gathers for a funeral, turning grief into a survival crisis. Now they have to reach safety before the wider collapse catches them too.
The Last Cabin
by James Hunt
2019
When an EMP shatters normal life, Joanna Mercer retreats to a cabin with her two children. The shelter may save them, but isolation brings its own dangers.
The Last Orchard
by James Hunt
2019
A supposed refuge turns fragile as shortages, fear, and desperate outsiders close in. Survival means more than finding food, it means deciding who still belongs inside the gate.
Anchorage EMP
by James Hunt
2020
Blackout
by Alexandria Clarke
2020
After an EMP destroys the power grid, Georgie Fitz heads for her estranged father's mountain cabin hoping for safety. Instead she finds survivalists, harsh rules, and new questions about what happened to him.
EMP
by James Hunt
2020
EMP Ranch
by Robert J Walker
2020
Grid Down
by James Hunt
2020
Hideaway
by James Hunt
2020
Protecting Our Home
by James Hunt
2020
The Cabin in the Woods
by Robert J Walker
2020
The Darkest Day
by Robert J Walker
2020
The Longest Night
by James Hunt
2020
The Pulse
by James Hunt
2020
How We Survive
by James Hunt
2021
Into The Dark
by Robert J Walker
2021
Off the Grid
by Robert J Walker
2021
Powerless
by James Hunt
2021
Seeking Shelter
by James Hunt
2021
The Break Down
by Robert J Walker
2021
The Coldest Night
by Robert J Walker
2021
The Homestead EMP
by James Hunt
2021
Whiteout
by James Hunt
2021
Fading Light: EMP Survival in a Powerless World
by James Hunt
2022
Safe Passage
by James Hunt
2022
What should be a route to safety turns into a desperate fight to stay ahead of danger. In James Hunt's world, even the promise of safe passage comes with a price.
The Family Shelter
by James Hunt
2023
A shelter can protect a family from the worst of the collapse, until the people inside start bringing their own damage with them. Safety and pressure rarely stay separate for long.
Defending Liberty
by James Hunt
2024
In a country stripped down by crisis, ideals become harder to hold and more costly to defend. Hunt turns that tension into a fast-moving survival conflict.
Fallen Empire
by James Hunt
2024
Collapse is one thing. Figuring out what rises after it is another. This survival thriller leans into the fight over power, territory, and whatever order is left.
Widow Mountain
by James Hunt
2024
A remote mountain setting gives Hunt plenty of room for isolation, suspicion, and danger closing in. The higher the climb, the fewer places there are left to hide.
EMP Doomsday
by James Hunt
2025
When Hunt puts EMP in the title, you can expect speed, collapse, and hard choices under pressure. This one promises the full nightmare, blackout first, consequences immediately after.
The Escape Plan
by James Hunt
2025
Nick Franklin has spent his life preparing for the moment everything goes wrong. After the EMP hits, a blizzard and twenty dangerous miles stand between him and his family.
Series background & context
These books start with a simple nightmare and then refuse to look away from the practical part of it. An EMP hits. The grid dies. Cars, phones, hospitals, supply chains, and everyday routines stop being dependable. What matters after that is food, water, travel, trust, and whether the people around you are going to help or turn into one more thing to survive.
Alexandria Clarke's entries in this setting feel grounded in ordinary people getting shoved into impossible decisions. In Blackout, Georgie Fitz heads for her estranged father's cabin in the Rocky Mountains and finds a survivalist camp already in place, plus a long list of rules and a big question about what happened to her father. In No Power, Ailani Ho is stranded in a ruined California and cannot stop thinking about the sister who was in the air when everything went dark. Different setup, same pressure, family ties and survival colliding at the worst possible moment.
What gives these books their pull is that they are less interested in military hardware than in group dynamics. Who shares supplies. Who makes decisions. Who breaks first. Who turns out to be more useful than expected. Clarke spends time on the social side of collapse, which makes the danger feel close even when there is no immediate gunfight happening.
The settings help too. Mountain camps and powerless cities create very different problems, and the books use that. One story leans into isolation, weather, and small-community tension. The other pushes through urban confusion, travel risk, and the awful size of a crisis when you have no good way to get information.
If you like post-apocalyptic fiction that stays with civilians rather than command centers, this is a solid fit. The pace is quick, the stakes are clear, and the questions are the ones readers of the genre usually want answered first: where do you go, who do you trust, and how long can good intentions hold when the lights do not come back on?
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