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After the Second Sun: Book 2 in the Mercer Ridge Series
Paperback
Series: Mercer Ridge, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 13 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The world didn't end in a single day.
It changed forever.
Months after the events of The Black Net Protocol, the people of Mercer Ridge have done something they once weren't sure was possible: they've built a life worth protecting.
Fields are producing food. Workshops are running. Families are putting down roots. Eli Mercer and the people around him are no longer simply trying to survive until tomorrow. They're beginning to believe there can be a tomorrow.
But Mercer Ridge isn't alone.
Voices are beginning to emerge from the silence. Long-range radios reveal scattered communities that survived in their own ways-and raise a question no one at Mercer Ridge can ignore: Is surviving separately enough?
Reaching those communities means leaving the relative safety of home. Pilots take to the air again. Soldiers travel beyond familiar territory. Families welcome strangers. And every new contact brings the possibility of cooperation-as well as the risk of discovering what desperation has made other people become.
What begins as an effort to reconnect isolated communities soon becomes something larger. Roads, radios, aircraft, trade, and shared knowledge can help rebuild what was lost. Trust is harder.
And as Mercer Ridge reaches farther into the world, its people begin to understand that rebuilding civilization won't happen because someone declares the crisis over. It will happen one connection, one community, and one difficult decision at a time.
After the Second Sun continues the character-driven story of Mercer Ridge, blending aviation, technology, military operations, family, community, and survival with a different question at its heart:
Once you've survived the end of the world you knew, how do you begin building the next one?
After the Second Sun is Book Two of the Mercer Ridge Series. The story begins with The Black Net Protocol and continues in Echo Recon.
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