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A promise is a road you keep by walking.
The war sputtered to ‘over,’ but peace never showed. When Henry Cade delivers his found family to a fortified bunker outside a broken D.C., he expects safety. Instead, he finds surveillance, scarcity, and a power vacuum. A child needs healing, a wife is lost inside her own storm, and a nation teeters between order and anarchy.Pressed into service by a fading president and a principled commander, Cade is forced to choose: stay human or stabilize a country—preferably both. A precision breach exposes the camp’s weaknesses; radio traffic, ration lines, and drone patrols reveal a fragile new world trying to stand. Cade’s oath becomes simple: protect the kids, protect the promise, and rebuild what’s left.
This third novel in the On My Way series is a gritty, heart-forward post-apocalyptic survival story about leadership, family, and reconstruction. Expect tight suspense, clean, muscular prose, and the kind of hope that works—neighbors wiring lights back on, kids returning to school bells, and a man walking one last road with a box of ordinary grace.
Perfect for readers of Station Eleven, The Last of Us, The Road, and slow-burn dystopian thrillers with found family, moral stakes, and community rebuilding.
Themes & tropes: post-apocalyptic survival • dystopian America • found family • wounded hero dad • bunker/base politics • continuity of government • small-town resilience • trauma & recovery • ‘next right step’ hopepunk • radio networks • leadership under fire • tender, earned endings
Series order:
- One Bad Day — the fall • 2) One Bad Week — the road • 3) One Bad Month — the rebuild
Genre: Science Fiction
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