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On the last leg of a long, dangerous journey across post-apocalyptic America, Dan can’t outrun his own worst habits. Chasing a vision of how life could be, he’s forced to decide whether stubbornness is strength or just another way to become a bad example.

When the Lightspeed wireless grid suddenly fails, technician Josie and her team are stranded at an aid center that quickly turns deadly. Their desperate journey toward Jim Powell’s valley brings news of ruthless new players moving into the power vacuum.

Willie scrapes by outside Damascus, Virginia, juggling odd jobs, raising her own kids, and sheltering other strays no one else will take. After a nationwide blackout, her abusive ex-boyfriend—who also wears a badge—decides it’s finally open season on her and her makeshift family.

With The Reset Roadhouse thriving and power on the horizon thanks to President Walter Lightspeed, Jim’s town starts to believe normal life might return. As promises of electricity spread, old questions about weapons, control, and who really runs things flare back up.

Holed up in the West Virginia mountains after Lightspeed’s fall, Conor’s crew searches for someone who can reignite the national recovery. Their mission to recruit a larger-than-life ally collides with forces that may permanently fracture their tight circle of friends and family.

Months after Walter Lightspeed proves he can beam power wirelessly, America is clawing its way back from the dark. As enemies inside and outside the country sabotage the project, Conor and his team must decide how far they’ll go to keep the recovery alive.

After a disastrous raid costs him his job with Door Kickers International, Ty Stone is adrift again. A mysterious employer soon offers him work in Central America, where his willingness to draw blood is an asset—and his moral compass is tested all over again.

Chinese missiles shatter Camp David and kill Walter Lightspeed, plunging the recovering nation back into blackout. With foreign covert teams hunting key resisters, Conor and Ricardo land on the hit list and respond the only way they know—by taking the fight to the hunters.

Jim Powell has learned that hiding on his mountain only blinds him to threats. In this later Borrowed World novel, he opens a rough bar and trading post that doubles as an intelligence hub, just as national upheaval looms again.

Settled into a fortified underground home in Idaho, Dan looks forward to a quiet stretch of mountain biking and music. A bad crash ends with him waking bound to a tree, staring at a woman he and his friends were sure they’d left in the past.

On a mission near Washington, DC, Conor Maguire and Ricardo stumble into the orbit of a billionaire who believes he can rebuild America without politicians. Their simple supply run becomes a tangle of assassination plots, backroom deals, and uneasy alliances.

Dan and Holly think they’ve finally found stability in their Idaho hideout until a strange, primitive-seeming group drifts into the area. Covered in ash and ritual markings, the newcomers covet the same scarce resources, forcing a dangerous showdown in the hills.

Conor’s new employer, billionaire Walter Lightspeed, is clearing his path to power by eliminating corrupt insiders. As Conor and Ricardo carry out quiet killings, they start to question whether this visionary reformer might also be putting their own families at risk.

When Conor’s new boss orders him to wipe out an insurgent named Jim Powell, the Mad Mick finally collides with the Borrowed World’s central hero. This crossover novel pits two lethal men—and their equally stubborn followers—on opposite sides of the same mission.

After an EMP strands him in Boise, Dan escapes into the Idaho backcountry with Holly, a straight-edge former officer who barely tolerates his methods. Their remote cabin offers safety, but close quarters force them to negotiate wildly different moral codes.

Branded an insurgent after striking back at the system, Jim fakes his own death and disappears into the mountains. Resurgent follows his return from exile as he quietly hunts the neighbors and officials who put his family in the crosshairs.

Asked to punch tickets for a network of traitors who profited from America’s collapse, Conor assembles his team for what should be a straightforward hit list. Instead, every step of the operation unravels, leaving them physically and emotionally stretched past their limits.

Now working with a veteran-run anti-trafficking group, Ty Stone chases rumors that a rehab clinic is secretly selling newborns. His obsession with a pregnant addict, and his habit of breaking rules, threatens the mission and his fragile grip on recovery.

Conor returns to professional assassination work, taking a lucrative job to eliminate a shady financier while the country still reels from collapse. The mission spirals into something far larger, uncovering a secret that reshapes his understanding of his own life.

A missing child at a crowded interstate gas station pulls combat vet Ty Stone into a case he’s not sure he’s stable enough to handle. Haunted, hunted by law enforcement, and furious at himself, he pushes deeper into a trafficking network anyway.

Middle-aged Dan Slaughter travels west to settle a dead friend’s affairs and quickly suspects the overdose was murder. When a solar event plunges Boise into chaos, he decides the blackout is his chance to hand out a little Tennessee justice.

Reports of a heavily armed column razing towns to the north reach Conor’s mountain community. Outnumbered and divided, he must weld suspicious neighbors into a fighting force before the invaders arrive, all while his daughter Barb stokes conflict with her sharp tongue.

Convinced his presence endangers everyone he loves, Jim hits the road with his friend Lloyd to scout a fallback refuge. Their uneasy journey forces them to confront the violence they’ve committed and the impossible hope of ever finding peace.

A ruthless security boss maimed in an earlier conflict wants revenge and puts a bounty on Jim Powell’s head. Flyers promising food and ammunition turn desperate neighbors into hunters, and Jim’s quiet valley becomes a trap packed with informants.

After obliterating the gang that kidnapped Barb, Conor tries to rally his scattered neighbors into a real defensive force. Unbeknownst to them, the dead men’s boss is marching south with his own army, eager to put the Mad Mick’s head on a pike.

Recovering at a mountain survival compound, Robert Hardwick finds the place under siege by a corrupt congressman and his private army. To save his injured friends and still reach his family, he devises a desperate defense that may cost him his life.

The battle that began at a Georgia compound follows Robert Hardwick home when the same power-hungry congressman targets the Hardwick farm as his new bug-out location. Robert, Grace, and their allies dig in for a brutal fight where every gain is paid in blood.

When a drunk driver kills his wife and injures his young daughter, bomb-maker Conor Maguire takes revenge the courts denied him. Recruited into a covert weapons program, he spends decades in the shadows—until the collapse and Barb’s kidnapping force him into the open.

Months into the collapse, lights begin to flicker back to life as a new government plan to restore power rolls out. Switched On asks whether Jim’s community is willing to trade privacy and autonomy for electricity and a return to normalcy.

A terrorist in Europe uses stolen profile photos to build a fake online persona, luring vulnerable strangers into deadly flash-mob attacks. When he targets American teen Amanda Castle and frames a lonely young man, both become pawns in a viral nightmare.

Alice Watkins finally reaches home after a brutal overland journey, only to find her once-quiet community tearing itself apart. Numb from trauma and frighteningly good at violence, she has to decide what kind of person survival has turned her into.

Jim’s remote farm was supposed to be a safe haven, prepared for life without fuel or grid power. When another armed group discovers the valley’s advantages, the Powells and their neighbors must defend their hard-won refuge or lose everything.

On the road after escaping her ruined campus, Grace Hardwick teams up with Tom, a combat-injured veteran in a tracked wheelchair. Together they cross a lawless landscape toward Virginia, relying on Robert Hardwick’s plans and their own growing ruthlessness.

Grace always humored her prepper dad’s drills and the mysterious key he insisted she wear to college. When coordinated attacks shatter the country, that key leads to a hidden cache and a dangerous trek home with a disturbed gamer stalking her trail.

The country slides toward anarchy while Jim tries to fortify his homestead. Elsewhere, his coworkers Gary and Alice face their own nightmares—Gary returning to a family under siege, Alice waking chained in a stranger’s basement with a killer nearby.

Stranded 500 miles from home after coordinated attacks wreck America’s infrastructure, prepper Jim Powell must walk across a collapsing Virginia with a handful of coworkers. Every mile home means new threats, scarce supplies, and choices he never imagined making.

Only days after the initial attacks, the country has already descended into chaos. Jim fights to push closer to home while his wife Ellen defends their valley from newly released convicts and a predator determined to burn neighbors out of their houses.