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Cavern Sanctuary: After the Fallout

Cavern Sanctuary: After the Fallout

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Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798249578657
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 358
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A widow. Three kids. Two dogs. One camper. And a warning no one else believes.

Alex Jensen is a nurse and a mother of three who has spent her whole life avoiding conflict. Evicted by her mother-in-law days after burying her husband, she flees to a remote Florida campground with nothing but an old camper and a dead man's watch on her wrist.

A coded message arrives from a trusted source inside the government: something is coming. While the world argues about rumors, Alex and a small group of campground strangers stockpile supplies in a hidden limestone cave beneath the Florida wilderness, praying the warning is wrong.

It isn't. The sirens wail. The missiles fall. Alex leads her people underground.

Two weeks in the dark forge strangers into family. A fierce campground owner and her gentle giant of a son. A Swedish couple carrying decades of quiet grief. A grizzled veteran who saw this coming forty years ago. A single mother whose courage shames Alex's caution. And three children who need their mother to become someone she has never been.

When they surface, the world above belongs to a man who has built order from the ashes, where safety costs obedience, families are separated by force, and a child's laugh is silenced before it leaves her mouth.

To save the people she loves, Alex will have to stop waiting for permission to be strong. She will have to walk into the colonel's compound with her oldest son, leave her younger children hidden in the dark, and find a way to tear his machine apart from the inside.

She has carried her dead husband's watch for months, measuring every breath by his time. When they take it from her, she discovers what she should have known all along: she never needed an anchor to know who she is.

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