Long Walk Home

The lights went out. The rules vanished. And the only thing that matters is a promise kept.

Tom Brennan is a man who understands risk. As a corporate insurance adjuster, he spent a lifetime calculating the odds of disaster. But when a massive atmospheric event fries the power grid and plunges the world into a permanent blackout, Tom finds himself trapped in the concrete canyons of Boston, 2,000 miles away from his children in Arkansas.

The calculations have changed. The odds are now zero.

With winter closing in and society collapsing into a feral state of violence and starvation, Tom must leave his old life behind to embark on a suicide mission across a dying America. The road west is paved with the wreckage of civilization: rogue military units, desperate refugees, and warlords rising from the ashes of order.

To survive the long walk home, Tom must become something else. He must shed his humanity one mile at a time, trading kindness for a blade and hope for cold, hard survival instincts. But in a world where a can of beans is worth a life and trust is a fatal mistake, the question isn’t just whether Tom can make it back to his children—it’s who he will be when he finally opens their door.

In this gritty EMP survival thriller, the dead walking aren’t the worst thing you have to survive—it’s the living.

The Long Walk Home is the harrowing first installment in an epic 24-book post-apocalyptic series about a father’s relentless quest, the collapse of society, and the darkness that lives inside us all.