Blackout 1

Nicholas Sansbury Smith's Trackers meets Kyla Stone in this pulse-pounding grid-down survival thriller. The world didn't end with an explosion. It ended with silence. When a catastrophic solar flare slams into Earth, power grids fail, communications collapse, and panic spreads like wildfire. In the absolute darkness, humanity's worst predators rise to the top. Freelance fixers Cal Harker and Ty Keegan operate out of their city bar, taking the dangerous, high-stakes jobs nobody else will touch. When a client needs his missing brother located, Cal takes the job alone while Ty works another case. Then the grid goes dead. Cut off from his partner and heading north into the Colorado wilderness, Cal follows the trail straight to an exclusive, fortified retreat built for the wealthy and powerful. But behind the luxury compound's walls lies a monstrous secret. With armed killers stalking the mountains and a blackout crippling the nation, Cal must infiltrate the compound and survive the trap-before the darkness swallows him whole. Blackout 1 is a gritty, fast-paced post-apocalyptic survival thriller packed with danger, betrayal, and intense action. If you love high-octane survival and relentless pacing, start Derek Shupert's disaster series today!