Seventy Hours to Winter

By Silas Fenholt

The Long Grid — Book 1

Seventy hours until the storm. Seventy-four miles to shelter. A father and son who have forgotten how to listen to each other.

When power and communications begin failing across Alder City, utility worker Owen Hale wants a problem he can fix. His teenage son Eli wants to hear from his mother, stranded at the hospital where she coordinates patient transport.

Her message offers a destination: a school shelter in Bellwether, where Eli's aunt is helping prepare for the approaching winter front. Owen has a pickup, a paper map and years of practical experience. None of them guarantees a passable road.

As the journey draws them into other people's need for safety, Owen must learn that knowing how to repair a machine is not the same as knowing how to keep a group together—or keep a promise to his son.

Seventy Hours to Winter opens The Long Grid, a survival-fiction series about family, failing infrastructure and the ordinary work of helping one another endure.

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