Ron Foster Books in Order

Foster presents a survival manual focused on obtaining food and water in rural and suburban settings. Illustrated discussions of trapping, improvised equipment, cooking, and preservation explore how ordinary household materials might be repurposed when conventional services are unavailable.

Foster examines household preparedness for quarantine, isolation, and disease emergencies. Drawing on emergency planning, he discusses restrictions on movement and public health measures while asking how individuals and families might cope when an epidemic disrupts their everyday lives.

A lakeside community struggles to prepare for Christmas after a solar storm destroys modern infrastructure. Bitter weather, scarce food, and warnings of further solar activity threaten both the residents’ holiday plans and their ability to hold together.

After a solar storm destroys modern infrastructure, David and his companions struggle to sustain their lakeside refuge. Supply expeditions must range farther afield, while a new trading post needs protection from an increasingly desperate population.

After a solar storm destroys the electrical grid, Dave must decide whether to abandon home with friends and family. An improvised convoy heads toward a lakeside refuge, navigating shortages and the breakdown of the civilization they once relied upon.

Dump Truck and his companions take shelter with his cousin Martha after a solar storm shatters ordinary life. Familiar survivors meet new arrivals as the group tries to turn limited resources into a workable existence amid the collapse.

A solar storm strands emergency manager David in Atlanta, far from his vehicle and emergency supplies. Facing a long journey home to Alabama, he must improvise transport and find help as food shortages and social disorder spread.

A growing community faces starvation after a solar storm destroys modern technology. Cowboy Roland and engineer John attempt to build a railroad that could reach stranded trains, hoping forgotten supplies will keep their fellow survivors alive for another season.

An Englishman stranded in Atlanta after a destructive solar storm joins forces with Melanie. Their search for a way forward reconnects them with other survivors, extending the story of people trying to navigate a world stripped of modern technology.

Survivors of a solar catastrophe settle into lakeside cabins and attempt to build a lasting refuge. Scarce food, neighboring groups, and the danger of disorder test whether their isolated retreat can become the foundation for a functioning community.

A fierce winter worsens when another solar eruption coincides with an unusual snowstorm. Fearing an approaching ice age, the lakeside survivors begin hoarding supplies, and preparations for Christmas give way to anxiety about the months ahead.

Catastrophic flooding drives millions from California as economic instability and unexplained grid failures spread. Preppers gathering for an event face a rapidly widening emergency, while displaced families struggle to find a future beyond overcrowded shelters.

Donald races to turn a rural property into a refuge before an anticipated solar catastrophe. His preparations meet skepticism from neighbors and family, leaving him to balance practical improvements with the challenge of persuading others to take the threat seriously.

Ten years after a solar catastrophe, a lakeside community faces an unexpected threat to its future. Young adults want to leave, and aging survivors must work out who will grow food, gather firewood, and keep their fragile settlement alive.

A solar storm destroys the electrical grid before Donald finishes preparing his farmstead. As unprepared neighbors seek his limited stores, he must find a way to organize mutual support without sacrificing the supplies intended to protect his own family.

A nuclear electromagnetic pulse disables the electrical grid, leaving vehicles without fuel and communities facing famine and martial law. Through a prepper’s perspective, the story follows the practical decisions and growing uncertainties of surviving as modern systems fail.

Foster outlines an approach to preparedness centered on frugality, practical ingenuity, and sustained self-sufficiency. The guide discusses food procurement, trapping, and water treatment, combining traditional country knowledge with improvised uses for familiar household items and modern equipment.

Wildfires, contaminated water, and looters force Donald’s group to abandon their farmstead. Carrying a solar generator and a protected computer, they head toward a former summer camp, hoping preserved knowledge will help them establish a viable new community.

Already struggling after an electromagnetic attack, a group of prepared survivors faces a new threat when terrorists unleash smallpox. With reliable protection unavailable, they must confront the spread of disease while trying to preserve their community in a collapsing world.

Survivors leave their lakeside refuge for a government reconstruction town a decade after a solar storm. Efforts to rebuild ordinary life are complicated by politics, a religious cult leader, and the strains of returning to organized society.

Survivors of a nuclear electromagnetic pulse watch food supplies disappear and public order unravel. As unrest, cyberattacks, and biological warfare deepen the crisis, their stored provisions and practical knowledge become the fragile foundation of any hope for survival.

Seven days after an electromagnetic attack, prepared survivors try to remain hidden while news suggests a wider war has begun. Dwindling batteries, threatened food stores, and increasingly desperate neighbors turn ordinary signs of comfort into risks that could expose them.

After terrorists destroy the electrical grid and nearby dams, campers attending a preparedness festival are stranded on an island. With food dwindling and no obvious escape, the survivors must turn their practical knowledge and ingenuity into a plan for staying alive.

Emergency manager Jake heads toward the Gulf Coast as a hurricane compounds a global pandemic. Forced evacuations, quarantine, martial law, and an unfolding oil spill turn his mission to help others into a struggle to survive and return home.

Starving survivors wait for rescue on an island after coordinated attacks destroy America’s grid and nearby dams. Five weeks into the catastrophe, reaching shore may only begin their ordeal as burning cities and an unfamiliar world complicate the journey toward safety.

After a cyberattack destroys much of America’s power grid, prepper David confronts shortages, disease, and the suffering of people who did not prepare. Protecting his supplies while retaining compassion becomes a daily struggle as social order slowly disintegrates.

After ten weeks surviving a solar catastrophe in the city, Farley heads toward a remembered lake cabin. Limited fuel leaves him stranded, and an encounter involving a mother and her son complicates his struggle to find safety.

Stranded survivors settle on an old sharecropping plantation after attacks cripple the electrical grid. Lessons in farming offer a chance to endure, but the overseer’s secret plans involving treasure aboard a casino barge draw them into a dangerous dispute.

Farley’s escape to the lake brings responsibilities he did not anticipate. As supplies dwindle and survivors become more dangerous, trading and scavenging force him to weigh his own survival against obligations to people who may offer little protection in return.

Four stories follow survivors facing the loss of electricity after catastrophic events. Combining Southern humor with preparedness themes, the collection explores how practical skills, improvised solutions, and self-reliance might help ordinary people endure a world without its familiar infrastructure.

Farley struggles with the psychological costs of surviving a devastated world. Searching for food and shelter blurs the distinction between scavenging and theft, leaving him to question both his judgments and the rules that still govern human behavior.

Foster explores portable gardening for people who may need to leave home during an emergency. The guide covers growing food in unfamiliar places, preparing basic materials, composting, and maintaining productive small spaces when ordinary supplies become difficult to obtain.

Fleeing urban chaos after society collapses, survivors travel from Alabama toward Florida using a compact trailer that converts into a boat. Their improvised transport carries their supplies and hopes, but river hazards and predatory strangers threaten the route to safety.

Five years after a solar storm collapses the grid, Hobe and his crew sail toward Florida seeking profitable opportunities. A hurricane diverts them toward an oyster-fishing community, where pirates and disputes over shelter threaten their plans to rebuild a trading life.

Five years after a solar storm, traveling traders struggle to maintain commerce across the American South. Government seizure of their bank’s precious metals undermines their currency, leaving an armored-bus operator and his fellow survivors navigating dangerous routes and an uncertain economy.

Expecting a solar storm to cripple the grid and set Atlanta ablaze, continuity planner Hogan prepares to escape with his friend Annie. Jammed roads leave their boats as a possible route out, but reaching the river raises new questions about survival beyond the city.

Stranded in Panama City Beach after a solar storm, Bob relies on an inflatable kayak and fishing gear to survive. With gangs taking over and thieves threatening his supplies, he seeks refuge through a hidden canal while learning to feed himself from coastal waters.

Foster considers how travelers might cope if a prolonged infrastructure failure strands their recreational vehicle far from home. The guide discusses adapting campers into survival shelters, obtaining food, and applying preparedness skills when fuel and conventional services disappear.

After the power grid fails, survivors in a former Florida tourist town attempt to rebuild a working economy. A trader’s plan to use sand dollars as change starts a friendly currency contest, testing how ingenuity and cooperation can restore everyday exchange.

A couple handling a relative’s estate is stranded far from home when an attack destroys electrical infrastructure. With two elderly neighbors, they must find food, escape a collapsing community, and attempt a dangerous journey toward a friend’s fishing camp.

Foster explores remaining at home through a prolonged failure of electrical infrastructure. Focusing on modest suburban spaces, the guide discusses backyard food procurement, self-reliance, and inexpensive preparations for households that cannot depend on extensive gardens or substantial equipment.

Joe and Mary have little preparation when attacks destroy electrical infrastructure and leave their family without essential services. A neglected survival manual becomes their main resource as they confront shortages, escalating violence, and the prospect of weeks without power.

An orphaned sea witch and an apprentice who recycles magical possessions leave their late master’s castle on a trading journey. A meeting with a strange creature introduces possibilities that could change how the young witch understands her powers.

After months at an inland fishing camp, hungry survivors venture into a deserted coastal town. Scavenging brings promising discoveries, but the residents of a guarded marina make rebuilding a trading community more complicated than simply finding supplies.

Two older vacationers are stranded at the beach when attacks cripple the electrical grid. As starvation spreads, they join other survivors whose attempts to barter, obtain food, and form a community offer a fragile alternative to violence.

Written with older readers in mind, this guide draws on Foster’s experience of preparedness and outdoor living. It discusses inexpensive equipment, food procurement, shelter, and adapting familiar skills for people facing limited budgets or reduced physical capacity.

After a magnetic catastrophe destroys infrastructure, Zack’s community struggles with disease and hunger. A cache of old herbal books offers a possible resource as survivors search for ways to care for one another without functioning hospitals or pharmacies.

Walt and Yoshi head toward Florida, hoping for a beachside refuge or shelter at a relative’s farm. Warnings of worsening weather and confrontations over abandoned supplies complicate their journey through a country where ordinary protections have disappeared.

A preparedness gathering becomes a survival crisis when earthquakes and flooding trap visitors on an island. Local residents, campers, and tourists compete for dwindling food while disagreements over rescue, authority, and self-reliance threaten to fracture their fragile refuge.

Billy’s trip to summer camp goes wrong when the car breaks down near a tornado-damaged campsite. With his friend, their adult leader, and a Girl Scout, he must improvise shelter and supplies while they wait for rescue.

Walt and Yoshi search for an offshore refuge but lack a boat to reach it. A hurricane, lost supplies, and reports of an approaching epidemic turn their coastal journey into another struggle for food, shelter, and survival.

A living ship flees a plague-stricken port to reach a northern graveyard and complete her final transformation. Pursued by powers seeking her valuable timber and spirit, she relies on a water wizard, unexpected allies, and two young apprentices.

Foster reflects on life during the COVID-19 pandemic from his perspective as a preparedness writer. Personal experiences, political opinions, and practical concerns mingle in an account of lockdowns, uncertainty, and planning for emergencies during an unsettled year.

A friendly preparedness gathering in Panama City becomes an emergency when the electrical grid and communications fail. Stranded visitors must decide whether to risk returning home or share dwindling resources with companions who cannot leave.

Survivors stranded at the Hideaway need provisions as communications fail and society unravels. Farley gathers supplies at Prepper Shack, but bringing them back becomes its own challenge amid the uncertainty and mounting pressures of a nationwide disaster.

An older Southern prepper and a former Japanese restaurant owner are thrown together after a prolonged electrical collapse. Despite misunderstandings and sharply different backgrounds, Walt and Yoshi must cooperate to find food, evade marauders, and escape their predicament.