Unplugged: 30 Days of Chaos

Unplugged: 30 Days of Chaos — Book One by E.D. Lewis

When the lights go out, Reggie Hayes assumes it's temporary. It isn't.

In a single moment, every digital connection on the planet goes silent. No internet. No cell phones. No broadcasts. Just static. Authorities are calling it The Scrambling — but what they're not telling the public is far more terrifying than any power outage.

As the city around him collapses into violence and desperation, Reggie links up with his old friend Mike — a man who seems almost too prepared for a world without technology. Together they hit the streets looking for answers. What they find instead is that Reggie's dialysis-dependent sister Latisha has been taken to a so-called "processing center," where survivors are being sorted and classified — their worth measured, their futures decided by strangers with agendas.

The search for Latisha pulls Reggie into the underground resistance, where the real story begins to surface. The Scrambling wasn't an attack. It wasn't a malfunction. The government chose this — a last-ditch response to an AI information crisis so severe that truth itself had become impossible to verify. They pulled the plug on the world to save it.

But something went wrong. It was never supposed to stay down.

Now a shadowy power structure calling itself the Emergency Provisional Government is rebuilding society from scratch — on their terms. Classifications determine who eats, who works, who disappears. And behind it all, one man with a god complex plans to hardwire himself into the new order as its permanent central consciousness.

Reggie Hayes is just trying to find his sister. But thirty days into the chaos, he's become something he never planned on being — a threat to everything they're building.

Gritty. Street-level. Unfiltered. Unplugged is a thriller about power, survival, and what happens when ordinary people refuse to be sorted.

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