A year has passed since the electromagnetic pulse attack crippled the United States. In Black Mountain, North Carolina, survivors are rebuilding slowly. Electricity flickers. Medicine is scarce. Hope is fragile but alive.
Then a new threat arrives.
A federal administrator claims the government is back. With him comes the promise of order, but also a mandate. The town’s young people will be drafted into the so-called Army of National Recovery and sent far from home to fight battles they do not understand.
John Matherson led his people through the worst year of their lives. Now he must decide whether to submit to the New Regime or rise against it.
In a world where freedom is fading and survival is never guaranteed, resistance might be the only path forward.
