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Shattered Skies
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Outcast Books
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Kade Bryant came home to his family's ranch for one reason: his father asked.
He never expected the world to end before they saw each other again.
Years after his mother's death fractured his family, Kade has spent most of his adult life running from the ranch, from the people he left behind, and from the father he has never quite forgiven. Returning home forces him to confront old memories, an abandoned relationship, a former best friend, and the uncomfortable possibility that leaving did not solve nearly as much as he thought it would.
Hundreds of miles away, Kade's father, John, is preparing to bring home the prototype of Tempestes-a revolutionary AI-driven weather-prediction system capable of forecasting storms months in advance with unprecedented accuracy.
Then the sky changes.
A violent storm forms with impossible speed. Lightning overwhelms the atmosphere. Electronics fail. A passenger jet falls from the sky. Tornadoes tear through communities, electromagnetic disturbances cripple modern infrastructure, and extreme weather begins appearing with patterns that make no scientific sense.
In a matter of hours, the connected world disappears.
And father and son are trapped on opposite sides of the collapse.
John survives the crash with a handful of strangers, including eccentric meteorologist Will Hamner and a young girl suddenly separated from everything she knows. With communications down and transportation destroyed, they begin a desperate journey through ruined towns, flooded roads, violent storms, dwindling supplies, and communities already beginning to fracture under the pressure of survival.
Back at the ranch, Kade is fighting a different battle.
As survivors gather, old relationships resurface and the rules of civilization begin to disappear. Armed groups take control of towns. Food and fuel become currency. Sanctuaries reveal darker sides. And Kade must decide how far he is willing to go to protect the people who now depend on him.
But John is carrying something through the wreckage that may matter far more than food or ammunition.
The Tempestes prototype survived the crash.
And as impossible storms continue to form around it, John and Will begin to suspect that the system they designed to predict disasters may somehow be connected to the catastrophe destroying the world.
Shattered Skies is a fast-paced post-apocalyptic science fiction thriller blending extreme-weather disaster, artificial intelligence, survival, technological conspiracy, family drama, violent societal collapse, friendship, sacrifice, and the struggle to find home when the world no longer looks familiar.
While Kade fights to survive long enough to reach safety, John has only one destination left that matters.
Home.
Because before he can understand what happened to the world, he has to know whether his son survived it.
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