Before survival became a way of life, the world began to fall.
As a mysterious virus spirals out of control, Officer Lincoln Asher faces a crisis no training could have prepared him for. The familiar structures of everyday life are giving way, and the people he loves are caught in the collapse.
Protecting them means navigating dangerous alliances and making decisions without the certainty he once depended on. Each encounter brings new questions about whom to trust, how far to go, and what the spreading catastrophe means for humanity's future.
Lincoln must confront a harrowing truth about the world around him while trying to hold on to the people who give him a reason to endure.
The Bitter Earth is book five of Graham's Resolution. This installment follows Lincoln's experience of the pandemic, widening the series' story of ordinary people facing the collapse of society and the personal cost of staying alive.