Roads Home (The Last Safe County)

By A. R. Shaw

Roads Home
Book One of The Last Safe County Series

She wasn't supposed to bring him back. She did it anyway.

Eight years after the collapse, Mabel Gray survives inside a hidden valley in the Cascades, a guarded settlement of forty people held together by hard rules, harder silences, and the fragile belief that survival depends on keeping the outside world out.

Mabel follows the rules. Mostly.

Until the day she finds a wounded boy and his loyal dog on a road through the mountain pass. The boy is unconscious. The dog refuses to leave him. And somewhere on the other side of the mountains, a man wakes on a hillside with a broken wrist and one task left in the world: finding his son.

Bringing the boy home should be an act of mercy. In Ridgeline Valley, it may be an act of betrayal.

As winter closes in and old secrets begin to surface, Mabel must decide what survival is worth if it costs her the last pieces of her humanity.

"This series feels like a warm fire in a cold world. I didn't want to leave the county."
- Ashley McClannahan

Roads Home is Book One in The Last Safe County, a powerful new post-apocalyptic survival series by USA Today bestselling author A. R. Shaw. For readers who love gritty survival realism, hidden communities, loyal dogs, found family, and hope hard-won in a broken world.

Start the series today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H4GKCL96
• ISBN13: 9798180555816
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"