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The Line Held: A Novel of Survival Without Surrender
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the water stops, the city doesn't fall to evil-it falls to thirst.
Evan isn't a hero. He's a practical man in a town that's learning, day by day, what survival actually costs. As resources vanish and emergency power becomes a lie, the people around him build something fragile but real: routines, trust, and rules made by consent.
Then the trucks arrive.
A disciplined network offers fuel, medicine, and protection-but nothing is free. What begins as cooperation becomes quiet compliance: paperwork, prioritization, corrections. And the hardest question isn't whether they can endure the collapse... it's whether they can endure the recovery without surrendering what makes them human.
The Line Held is a post-apocalyptic survival novel grounded in real-world practicality-where rebuilding is harder than fleeing, and the greatest danger is the comfort of being managed.
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