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Shadows of the EMP Part III: A New Dawn: An EMP Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller
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Series: Shadows of the Emp, Book 3
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 506
Weight: 2.56
Height: 1.02 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The war is over. Surviving it was the easy part. Living with what comes next will test everything they are.
The long winter has broken. The cullers are gone, buried in the rocks with words. But up the north draw, Kyle Harper and his camp learn a terrible truth: peace is more dangerous than war. Because something is rising in the south. Something that turned the lights back on. Something that doesn't come to destroy them. It comes to count them.
They call it the Restoration. The Light. And it is everything the frozen, starving country has prayed for. Working power. Factory medicine. Bulbs burning against the dark. All you have to do is come south, give them your name, and let them decide who is worth keeping.
It does not attack the walls. It plants a wish. And against a thing that gives instead of takes, against a kind officer with flour and a working radio, how do you fight at all?
As the wire creeps north pole by pole, Kyle's camp must decide what they are truly for. Not how to survive, but whether the open door, the thing they bled all winter to keep, can stand against a power that ends the dark and forgets the human face. The answer will cost them everything they have left.
In this breathtaking final volume, the choices are impossible and the stakes have never been higher:
- A loyal guardian walks knowingly into the enemy's trap, because something is crying, and some things are worth the cost
- A hostage trade no parent should ever face forces the camp to choose one life against sixteen, with no good answer anywhere
- A desperate hundred-mile run south to breach the heart of the Light itself, where the lost are sorted into lanes nobody is meant to see
- A final stand up the draw that will decide which idea the whole shattered country chooses, and what kind of world rises from the ash
Wendy Hawthorne delivers a gripping, heart-pounding, deeply human finale about loyalty, sacrifice, and the hardest, most dangerous thing of all: choosing kindness in a world that rewards the count. Perfect for fans of survival fiction who want their thrillers to break their hearts and put them back together stronger.
The lights, if they come, will cost more than you can imagine.
The long blackout is ending. But it will not end the way anyone expects.
Discover how it all concludes. Scroll up and one-click to return to the draw one last time.
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