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One Bad Month: Love, Lies, and the Road Home
Paperback
Series: On My Way, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 14 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The war sputtered to over, but peace never showed. When Henry Cade delivers his found family to a fortified bunker outside a broken D.C., he expects safety. Instead, he finds surveillance, scarcity, and a power vacuum. A child needs healing, a wife is lost inside her own storm, and a nation teeters between order and anarchy.
Pressed into service by a fading president and a principled commander, Cade is forced to choose: stay human or stabilize a country-preferably both. A precision breach exposes the camp's weaknesses; radio traffic, ration lines, and drone patrols reveal a fragile new world trying to stand. Cade's oath becomes simple: protect the kids, protect the promise, and rebuild what's left.
This third novel in the On My Way series is a gritty, heart-forward post-apocalyptic survival story about leadership, family, and reconstruction. Expect tight suspense, clean, muscular prose, and the kind of hope that works-neighbors wiring lights back on, kids returning to school bells, and a man walking one last road with a box of ordinary grace.
Perfect for readers of Station Eleven, The Last of Us, The Road, and slow-burn dystopian thrillers with found family, moral stakes, and community rebuilding.
Themes & tropes: post-apocalyptic survival - dystopian America - found family - wounded hero dad - bunker/base politics - continuity of government - small-town resilience - trauma & recovery - next right step hopepunk - radio networks - leadership under fire - tender, earned endings
Series order:
One Bad Day - the fall - 2) One Bad Week - the road - 3) One Bad Month - the rebuild
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