On PF (Power Failure) Day, the sun strikes the world with an unseen surge of electromagnetic fury, which cripples power stations and burns transformers to crispy nuggets of regret. No one had ever thought about how much they depended on electrical power, but now, without it, they are plunged into survival mode. Without electricity there is no communication, no modern conveniences, and soon, no modern means of transportation, as the reserves of refined gasoline run dry. Worse still is the failure of the water and sewer systems, the impossibility of getting food and supplies to people living in cities, and the deaths of millions of people from starvation, disease, and lack of medical care.
In Book I, How I Became a Teenage Survivalist, Bracken soon realizes how lucky he is to live on a farm in the Midwest. What seemed like a dull and backwards life before is now the greatest chance for survival in a powerless world. Food, water, and heat are readily available, although hard work is required to make use of them. Bracken and his family must learn to survive like their ancestors who settled the land. |
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In Book II, Time Lost: Teenage Survivalist II, Ben discovers that living in the middle of a big city makes survival nearly impossible. Starvation, dehydration, disease, freezing temperatures, and out-of-control fires imperil the desperate population. After facing unimaginable losses, Ben finds hope for the future when he meets Sara, who has endured her own share of agonizing loss. But when a murderous gang threatens to take away everything Ben has left, he and Sara flee to a wilderness area of a large city park where they learn to live off the land for survival. |
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In Book III, Ice Queen: Teenage Survivalist III, Taylor knows what it takes to survive; she’s been surviving on her own as long as she can remember while her parents alternated between drug-induced catatonia, rehab, and jail. But does she have what it takes to survive the failure of the world's power grids, her parents' and older brother's painful withdrawal from drugs, and the emergence of the mental diseases the drugs had been masking for years? |
Although each book reveals very different aspects of survival in often contrasting situations, Bracken, Ben, and Taylor prove they have what it takes to survive. Their lives eventually entwine in ways that none of them could have foreseen.
The books do not have to be read in any specific order.
The books do not have to be read in any specific order.
Ever wonder what the future holds after the complete and utter failure of the world's power grids? Find out in the futuristic dystopian book, Defenders of Holt.
In Defenders of Holt, five centuries in the future in a village called Holt, Orion enjoys his uncomplicated life hunting deer and bison, using only his wits and amazing speed to run down his prey, until a girl of a different sort and the invasion of another tribe threaten to change his way of life forever. Life has drastically changed for the entire world after a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) destroyed the power grids five hundred years before, caused a decrease of the sun’s energy output, and plunged the Earth into an ice age. Mutated by the increased radiation from the collapse of the geomagnetic shield, the survivors have evolved into a race of people with enhanced genes who have made their simple, pastoral lifestyle comfortable and enjoyable. Yet, not all people have been so successful, and one such tribe, the Outliers, threatens to usurp Orion’s village and way of life from them.