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Emp: A Widow's Stand: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 482
Weight: 2.44
Height: 0.97 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The lights go out. The next day, Jennifer Cory is a widow.
When neighbor Robert North comes up the lane with armed men demanding fuel, her husband Scott says no. He says it twice. North kills him on his own front steps, and Jennifer makes sure the man who did it never leaves her yard alive.
Scott's last words are that she is the strongest person he has ever known, and that the only thing which holds ground is people.
She spends the next year finding out what that costs.
North's oldest friend swears revenge. A ragged collection of survivors starts walking up her lane with nothing but what they carry: a boy who killed her horse trying to steal it, a diabetic mother counting vials, a seventy-four year old schoolteacher, a machinist with a notebook, a man who loved her for twenty-two years and cannot keep his mouth shut about it. Wolves come out of the willows. Winter comes after them. And four miles down the road, a man named Franklin Jeffries builds something colder and smarter, an outfit that takes only the useful and leaves the children where they stand.
Jennifer builds the opposite. Then she has to defend it.
A brutal, unflinching novel of loss, loyalty, and the terrible arithmetic of survival in a world where the nearest law is four days ride away and there is nobody coming.
Some ground is worth holding. Some prices are worth paying. Not all of them are the same.
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