About the Book
As National Guard soldiers bring conflict and hard choices to Ridgefield, Sarah, Emma, and Joanie scramble to relocate the children. Meanwhile, Rick and Duncan discover both opportunity and heartache in a fire-ravaged factory town, and in Greenbelt, a final assault from Victor threatens to shatter what remains of NASA’s last hope in Final Extinction Book 4.
From 4-million-copy bestselling author Mike Kraus and the acclaimed Justin Bell comes a new thrilling tale of survival.
Without warning, a brand-new satellite system misfires and unleashes focused solar energy that ignites cities, wipes out power grids, and kills billions in mere hours.
In the quiet suburbs of Pennsylvania, Sarah Kent and her daughter Emma barely escape the destruction as everything around them is turned to ash. Huddled in their basement and with nowhere safe to turn, they begin a desperate journey to create their own shelter as the world unravels around them.
Deep beneath the Rocky Mountains, Rick Kent is hard at work on a mining job, only realizing that something has gone terribly wrong when he emerges late at night and discovers that the world has fallen apart during his absence. Now he faces the ultimate struggle: one where civilization is gone, survival is brutal, and reaching his family might be impossible.
Meanwhile, at NASA's headquarters in Maryland, the surviving members of the team that helped launch the doomed Umbra program must decide whether to run or stay and try to fix Umbra before it can destroy the scattered pieces of civilization that still remain.
