Long Road Home
Six years ago, the stars went out. The cold came, and it never left.
No government announcement. No explanation. Just darkness where light had been
and a winter that has lasted half a decade, grinding the world down to something
unrecognizable.
When their home is destroyed in a single violent night, a family of three has
one option left: drive west. Twenty-seven hundred miles from South Carolina to
California, across broken highways, frozen plains, and everything that's still
out there in the dark between here and home.
He's a former soldier - methodical, heavily armed, wired for threat assessment
and carrying a grief he won't name yet. She's the woman who kept them alive for
six years with a notebook, a water schedule, and a survival guide she found in a
library discard bin three weeks after the freeze began - and who quietly became
more prepared for the end of the world than anyone gave her credit for. Their
five-year-old son has never seen a horse, recently lost his marble collection to
a trailer fire, and is more resilient than either of his parents expected. He goes
nowhere without a worn blue stuffed dragon named Draggy, who has opinions.
Told in alternating chapters from husband and wife, Long Road Home
follows one family across a dying America - through ambushes and trading posts,
frozen deserts and mountain passes, the slow accumulation of loss and the
stubborn persistence of love. They will lose more than they planned to lose.
They will find, at the end of the road, something different from what they left
behind.
But they will find it together.
Long Road Home is a post-apocalyptic literary novel about survival,
grief, and the things people carry when everything else is gone.
Fans of The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Station Eleven by Emily
St. John Mandel, and A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers will
find in these pages the same question those books ask - not whether the world
ends, but who we are when it does.
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