TL Payne Books in Order

Believing her uncle's remote farm will be safe, Maddie barely has time to catch her breath before officials and enemies arrive on her trail. Forced back on the road, she must choose between protecting her group and reuniting her scattered family.

As coordinated EMP and cyberattacks cripple the country, business traveler Erick Wynn is trapped in Chicago while his pregnant wife waits at home. With power out and violence spreading, he must cross a city in free fall to reach his family.

When EMP and cyberattacks shut down the grid, college runner Maddie Langston is stranded at Chicago's airport. Pushing through looted terminals and burning streets with a ten year old girl in tow, she has to run for her life toward a distant home.

At the family cabin, Maddie, Zach and their small community are shaken when a young girl disappears in the lawless countryside. Old grudges, nearby predators and grief fueled mistakes push them to decide whether to hide behind their fences or confront the danger head on.

After prison riots and clashes with a would be dictator, Maddie's people face a brutal winter with thin stores and too many enemies. A risky supply run to St. Louis and a threat no weapon can touch test the group more than any battle.

In Texas County, Missouri, simmering tensions explode as a flood of released prisoners and vengeful enemies crash into small town life. With supplies dwindling and trust fraying, Maddie and her allies have to hold the line before their fragile refuge is swept away.

Nine months after the lights go out, Maddie Langston and her neighbors focus on rebuilding and stocking up for winter. An unexpected stranger drags them into a dangerous mission that could decide far more than just their small county's survival.

When an EMP attack and incoming hurricane cripple Houston, single father Will Fontenot and his son are stranded in a city collapsing around them. After stopping to help two injured women, they are pulled into a deadly chase that makes escape even more dangerous.

After defeating their most obvious enemy, Raine and the survivors move to a farm in St. Francois County and dare to think the worst is behind them. New threats, uneasy alliances and lingering trauma prove the fight for a future has only begun.

Life outside St. Louis brings new hardships as Raine's group joins a farming community dominated by ruthless men. When one of their own is taken, they must rally suspicious locals and confront their tormentors to reclaim both their friend and a sense of justice.

Raine and her group briefly find order at a crowded shelter in a shopping mall, until supplies vanish and security pulls out. Forced back into the frozen city, they work together to find a more permanent refuge before fear and hunger turn the crowd violent.

A devastating cyberattack and super EMP plunge St. Louis into blackout during a deadly cold snap, igniting fires and riots. Trapped in a high rise, Raine Caldwell and her neighbors must flee on foot through burning, snow covered streets in search of any safe haven.

Maddie Langston and the survivors of Evening Shade think they finally have breathing room, until General Dempsey's forces push into the Ozarks. New alliances, old enemies and a looming offensive force Maddie to choose how much she is willing to risk for home.

With the new government confronting General Dempsey's forces, Will and Isabella join an Army cavalry unit on a mission that could shape the war. Fighting alongside allies from Missouri, Will must balance defending his family with risking everything for the country itself.

In the ruined, storm torn city, Will, Cayden and Isabella are battered but more determined than ever to get out of Houston. As enemy fighters move to finish their attack, the trio is dragged into a plot that could tip the fate of the nation.

Hoping his family farm will be a haven, Will returns to rural Louisiana and finds his parish controlled by the Blanchard crime family. As neighbors on Sugar Cove Road band together to resist, they realize an even more dangerous outside enemy is closing in.

Recovering from a brutal battle at a military base, Will and Isabella want to rest but the fight for Houston is far from over. Forced to flee, they cross East Texas on roads clogged with refugees, ambushes and desperate people who will kill to survive.

Two weeks after the EMP, Lauren Wallace and the town of Unicoi hunker behind hastily built walls, short on food and trust. Injured and exhausted, Sam finds shelter in Franklin, North Carolina, until outsiders refuse to leave and threaten to drag both communities into fresh chaos.

Four months after the EMP, Lauren finds a way to restore electricity while an epidemic threatens Unicoi. Sam searches dangerous territory for medicine as political attention and hostile alliances put Camp Wallace and his family at risk.

An EMP attack wipes out the power grid while former detective Sam Wallace is escorting a witness hundreds of miles from home. With hired killers on their trail and no working technology, Sam fights to reach his family as his wife Lauren and son Charlie struggle to survive on their own.

With Unicoi controlled by traitors, desperate residents crowd into Camp Wallace and strain its limited food. Sam and Lauren must move against the Corbin threat from different directions before their enemies destroy the community they are trying to protect.

The Spencer family and their friends have built a refuge after an EMP attack overturned their lives. Now they must defend that hard-won sanctuary, relying on the trust and loyalty formed through their struggle to stay together.

An EMP attack forces Serenity Jones to flee her collapsing hometown and trust uncertain allies. Meanwhile, her estranged father escapes prison to find her, racing through mounting violence as she decides survival may require fighting back.

Serenity escorts six-year-old Finn through a ruined town to his grandparents, only for their brief safety to unravel. As her estranged father searches for her, a new disappearance draws Serenity toward an enemy linked to his past.

Brooke and Ethan must cross more than eight hundred miles after an EMP attack to reach their twins. Without modern technology, their journey through the Great Plains brings them into outlaw-controlled Dodge City and tests their fragile hopes.

An EMP attack strands Ethan and Brooke Spencer in the Colorado Rockies, eight hundred miles from their young twins. With vehicles and phones useless, they begin walking home through a country where desperation threatens both survival and their marriage.

Nearly two weeks after the EMP attack, Ethan and Brooke are still struggling toward Tulsa through a dangerous countryside. At home, Robert and Nina protect the couple's twins from raiders, hoping the children's parents will reach them.

After three weeks crossing eight hundred dangerous miles, Ethan and Brooke Spencer finally reach Tulsa. Their relief vanishes when they find their home ruined, the city in chaos, and the family they fought to return to missing.

Ayden and Clara try to bring their new allies safely into Pennsylvania while enemy forces close in. Far away in Wyoming, Mia fights a ruthless adversary and mounting chaos, struggling to protect herself and her threatened community.

Visiting his dying mother in New York, Ayden Miller is stranded when an EMP attack destroys the grid. He must get his sister home to Wyoming, where his girlfriend Mia and her children face an old enemy.

Ayden and Clara's hoped-for refuge in Pennsylvania comes under attack, forcing their group back toward Wyoming. As they cross a hostile Midwest, Mia and her sons prepare for a winter without electricity and a war drawing nearer.

Recovering from a violent confrontation, Serenity and her companions shelter in a former enemy's mansion. New allies offer support, but a more dangerous opponent emerges, forcing her to defend loved ones while still carrying the wounds of earlier battles.

Serenity leads her reunited family and fellow survivors toward Bower Township, evading predators intent on stealing their supplies. Reaching the community brings another challenge: earning suspicious residents' trust before an old enemy launches a fresh attack.

Ayden leads Mia and her sons into Wyoming's mountains to escape invading forces. A snowstorm and an encounter with local resistance fighters force him to choose between hiding his family and joining a dangerous struggle to reclaim their country.

After escaping New York following an EMP attack, Ayden and Clara face armed enemies and a collapsing country. In Wyoming, Mia battles a vindictive pursuer while trying to recover her children, leaving both groups dependent on fragile alliances.

Jarrod Hearst leaves Camp Joy to search for his daughter near the Mexican border. Alongside a small band of survivors, he faces gang-controlled roads, desperate refugees, closing borders, and a spreading war that threatens every route forward.

Driven deeper into Wyoming after losing their refuge, Ayden's survivors face winter, grief, and dwindling supplies. Reports of foreign troops holding hostages at a nearby resort draw them into another confrontation when they can scarcely afford one.

A devastating solar storm destroys power and communications, scattering the Carlisle family across a collapsing America. Scientist Carson, his sister Willow, and their mother Bee face different dangers as each struggles to protect loved ones and survive.

Eight days after the solar storm, Carson escorts elderly relatives through collapsing Dallas while Willow reaches Arkansas. With Bee's hospital nearly out of supplies, the family's effort to reunite leads toward a dangerous run into Little Rock.

Nearly a week into the blackout, the Carlisle family remains scattered and exhausted. Carson heads toward Dallas, Willow's hoped-for refuge turns dangerous, Arthur faces desperate choices, and Bee must flee as threats spread through a fractured country.

Three days after the solar storm, the separated Carlisle family confronts a country losing its rules. Carson defends a Colorado community, Willow's troubles deepen in Appalachia, and their parents struggle to protect homes in Arkansas and Dallas.

Winter approaches the Ozarks as food dwindles and the hospital struggles to function. Willow, Carson, and their companions must search beyond Cherokee Village for a lasting refuge, where trusting strangers and claiming land could prove equally dangerous.