The journey home is over. The fight for what comes next has begun.
Two years after the ash fell, Green Bank, West Virginia, has become something rare in a broken world: a town still standing.
Matt and Laura Anderson have survived the impossible. They have reunited their family, helped hold their mountain community together, and built a fragile life beneath a sky still stained by volcanic winter. Food is scarce. Trust is fragile. The roads beyond the valley remain dangerous and unknown.
But isolation cannot last forever.
When a desperate transmission reaches Green Bank through an old continuity line, it reveals something no one expected: another organized force has survived. Far to the north, a military unit under Lieutenant Colonel James Becker still holds the ruins of its mission, waiting for orders from a government that may no longer exist.
To Matt, Becker represents a dangerous possibility—the chance that something larger than Green Bank still remains.
To Laura, he may be the first step toward occupation, exploitation, and the loss of everything they have fought to protect.
As the ash begins to thin and the outside world presses closer, Green Bank must decide what kind of community it intends to become. A refuge. A fortress. A republic. Or something harder to name.
But while Matt and Laura debate the future, a new enemy is already moving in the dark—organized, ruthless, and far more dangerous than anyone understands.
A gripping sequel to Seasons of Ash, Republic of Ash expands the world of The Tambora Series into a tense, emotionally charged story of survival, leadership, loyalty, and the impossible choices that follow the end of civilization.
Perfect for readers who love grounded post-apocalyptic fiction, Appalachian survival stories, military tension, and character-driven thrillers in the spirit of The Dog Stars, The Road, and Station Eleven.
Return to Green Bank and continue the journey today.
Genre: Science Fiction
Two years after the ash fell, Green Bank, West Virginia, has become something rare in a broken world: a town still standing.
Matt and Laura Anderson have survived the impossible. They have reunited their family, helped hold their mountain community together, and built a fragile life beneath a sky still stained by volcanic winter. Food is scarce. Trust is fragile. The roads beyond the valley remain dangerous and unknown.
But isolation cannot last forever.
When a desperate transmission reaches Green Bank through an old continuity line, it reveals something no one expected: another organized force has survived. Far to the north, a military unit under Lieutenant Colonel James Becker still holds the ruins of its mission, waiting for orders from a government that may no longer exist.
To Matt, Becker represents a dangerous possibility—the chance that something larger than Green Bank still remains.
To Laura, he may be the first step toward occupation, exploitation, and the loss of everything they have fought to protect.
As the ash begins to thin and the outside world presses closer, Green Bank must decide what kind of community it intends to become. A refuge. A fortress. A republic. Or something harder to name.
But while Matt and Laura debate the future, a new enemy is already moving in the dark—organized, ruthless, and far more dangerous than anyone understands.
A gripping sequel to Seasons of Ash, Republic of Ash expands the world of The Tambora Series into a tense, emotionally charged story of survival, leadership, loyalty, and the impossible choices that follow the end of civilization.
Perfect for readers who love grounded post-apocalyptic fiction, Appalachian survival stories, military tension, and character-driven thrillers in the spirit of The Dog Stars, The Road, and Station Eleven.
Return to Green Bank and continue the journey today.
Genre: Science Fiction
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