She went to Nashville chasing a dream.
The sun destroyed it along with the power grid.
Now Anna Collier must walk home, mile by mile.
When a massive solar storm cripples the nation on the night of Anna’s big break, a singer-songwriter stranded in Nashville must cross a darkened, desperate landscape for hundreds of miles on foot to reach the husband and son she can’t call.
From international bestselling author Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to over two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.
Anna Collier has played a thousand sets waiting for her shot. In Nashville, it finally comes. She signs with Colton Ryman’s talent agency and tries to send the news home to her husband, Nate, and their son, Caleb, in the mountains of western North Carolina. At that point, emergency alerts are sounding, the cash machines have gone dry and a woman lies bleeding in a bank parking lot.
The message never goes through.
‘Bobby Akart is a master at creating disaster scenarios.’
By nightfall, the President has declared a national emergency, a clock is counting down to impact, and a curfew keeps Anna off the highway. Then the storm arrives. It takes the power, the phones, and nearly every engine on the road. It leaves Anna hurt and cut off from the people she loves most.
So she does the only thing she can. She loads a cart, picks up her guitar and starts walking east.
The road home is no place for the trusting. Armed locals guard the bridges. The people Anna meets are decent, dangerous, or both, and the sky may not be finished with her yet.
At home in Murphy, North Carolina, Nate and Caleb are fighting a different war. Lester Stark has made a fortune buying land from people in trouble, and Zero Hour is the biggest distress sale of his life. When Caleb witnesses a murder near the family’s cabin, the Starks answer with threats and deadly force.
Separated by a world gone dark, this family has only one way back to each other—mile by mile.
‘Edge of your seat thrilling!’
A standalone novel in the Blackout universe. Mile by Mile unfolds during the same catastrophic solar storms that struck the Ryman family in the bestselling Blackout series. No prior reading is required. New readers can start here, or go back to the beginning with 36 HOURS, Book One of the Blackout series, and live the catastrophe through the eyes of Colton, Madison, and Alex Ryman. Longtime fans will recognize the countdown clock, Colton stranded in Dallas, and a determined Alex Ryman, a rising golf star, fending off a thief at a Nashville ATM.
This modern-day, fact-based thriller will have you whispering just one more chapter until the very end.
Genre: Science Fiction
The sun destroyed it along with the power grid.
Now Anna Collier must walk home, mile by mile.
When a massive solar storm cripples the nation on the night of Anna’s big break, a singer-songwriter stranded in Nashville must cross a darkened, desperate landscape for hundreds of miles on foot to reach the husband and son she can’t call.
From international bestselling author Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to over two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.
Anna Collier has played a thousand sets waiting for her shot. In Nashville, it finally comes. She signs with Colton Ryman’s talent agency and tries to send the news home to her husband, Nate, and their son, Caleb, in the mountains of western North Carolina. At that point, emergency alerts are sounding, the cash machines have gone dry and a woman lies bleeding in a bank parking lot.
The message never goes through.
‘Bobby Akart is a master at creating disaster scenarios.’
By nightfall, the President has declared a national emergency, a clock is counting down to impact, and a curfew keeps Anna off the highway. Then the storm arrives. It takes the power, the phones, and nearly every engine on the road. It leaves Anna hurt and cut off from the people she loves most.
So she does the only thing she can. She loads a cart, picks up her guitar and starts walking east.
The road home is no place for the trusting. Armed locals guard the bridges. The people Anna meets are decent, dangerous, or both, and the sky may not be finished with her yet.
At home in Murphy, North Carolina, Nate and Caleb are fighting a different war. Lester Stark has made a fortune buying land from people in trouble, and Zero Hour is the biggest distress sale of his life. When Caleb witnesses a murder near the family’s cabin, the Starks answer with threats and deadly force.
Separated by a world gone dark, this family has only one way back to each other—mile by mile.
‘Edge of your seat thrilling!’
A standalone novel in the Blackout universe. Mile by Mile unfolds during the same catastrophic solar storms that struck the Ryman family in the bestselling Blackout series. No prior reading is required. New readers can start here, or go back to the beginning with 36 HOURS, Book One of the Blackout series, and live the catastrophe through the eyes of Colton, Madison, and Alex Ryman. Longtime fans will recognize the countdown clock, Colton stranded in Dallas, and a determined Alex Ryman, a rising golf star, fending off a thief at a Nashville ATM.
This modern-day, fact-based thriller will have you whispering just one more chapter until the very end.
Genre: Science Fiction
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