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The Scattering
Paperback
Series: Rally Point, Book 1
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Fifth Floor Press
Published: Sep 20 2026
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A flu out of Southeast Asia takes the power grid and the supply chain with it, and one family finds itself spread across a continent with no way to close the distance except to walk it.
Ray and June hold a small ranch in the Texas Hill Country, and a road that is filling with strangers. Rachel is a large-animal vet snowed into a Montana valley with a doctor's bag and no doctor. Dan is a Navy engineer in the middle of the Atlantic on a ship that may not be allowed to dock. Ben is twenty years old, a continent to the west, with eleven dollars in his account and a car he is not certain will start.
For thirty years Ray Eckert was the family joke - the man who buried rice in the yard. What he was actually building was an address: a place worth walking toward, and four people who all knew where it was.
This is the walk home. Four roads told in rotation, across a country working out, mile by mile, what it costs to be decent to a stranger - and what it costs not to be.
No hordes. No leather. No ruined skylines. The violence is rare and it costs something. The heroism is logistical: people who kept a promise, kept a light on, kept a list.
Rally Point is a three-book series. The Scattering is Book One.
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