BOOKS 1 & 2 · COLLECTED IN ONE VOLUME
Dusk & Ashes
At dawn and dusk, the open sky
becomes a killing ground.
Power fails everywhere. Whole cities disappear. At the edges of daylight, strange flying machines burn anyone they find in the open. With the radios silent, survivors learn the rules by watching people die.
Mike O’Connell was struggling to hold his family together long before the world fell apart. Now he and his wife, Amelia, are turning their secluded home into a refuge. Strangers arrive hungry. Children arrive alone. Every newcomer gives Mike another reason to stay sober—and Amelia another life to protect.
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Far away, Captain Sheraton leads his stranded soldiers through the ruins, searching for someone still giving orders. Near the Hollow, Duggan has begun giving his own. He promises frightened survivors protection and a place in his new world.
Obedience is the price.
As his following grows, Mike and Amelia’s refuge becomes something worth taking. They have built a place where children can sleep safely, where people can laugh again, where something resembling a future seems possible.
Defending it will demand more than either of them wanted to ask.
Keeping the children alive may mean teaching them how to kill.
