After the Blackout
The lights went out. So did everything else.
When a catastrophic blackout swallows the town whole, seventeen-year-old protagonist] loses more than electricity - they lose their father, the engineer who saw it coming and left behind only a worn notebook filled with cryptic diagrams and desperate theories.
Now the town is fracturing. Neighbors trade token rations like sacred relics. Distrust prowls the darkened streets. And the adults who should have answers are running out of time to find them.
With nothing but a dead man's notebook and a stubborn refusal to give up, protagonist] does the one thing no one else will - starts asking the dangerous questions.
What really caused the blackout? And who has something to hide?
After the Blackout is a gripping story of grief, survival, and the terrifying courage it takes to lead when the world goes dark. As protagonist] decodes their father's final message and builds an unlikely alliance of neighbors, skeptics, and survivors, they discover that restoring power is the easy part. Rebuilding trust - that's what might break them.
Part mystery, part survival thriller, part coming-of-age story - this is a book about what holds us together when everything falls apart.
For fans of The Power and Station Eleven - readers who love high-stakes storytelling with a beating human heart at its center.
The darkness doesn't get to write our story. We do.
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