Brandon Walker has eleven hundred acres, a hundred and ten cows, and a family that has worked this Nebraska ground for three generations. When a silent white flash empties the sky and kills every clock, every phone, and every engine on the place, he thinks the hard part will be the winter. He is wrong. The hard part is his daughter. Rian has a secret. Eight miles southwest, a sixteen-year-old boy sleeps in a machine shed because it is safer than the house. And on the second morning of the new world, Brandon Walker understands that every brake civilization ever built has just burned out. No deputy. No caseworker. No phone in a girl's hand. There is only what men decide to do. What Brandon decides in that yard will cost him seventeen men in a pasture, a friend who walks ninety-one miles to warn him, and the certainty that he is still one of the good ones. Because the neighbors are coming. The men from the east are coming. And somewhere in Colorado, a voice on a dead frequency is telling America that help is on the way. It is lying.
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