Last Stand at Butler Creek: An EMP Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller

When the lights go out, the strong become wolves. One man chooses to be the shepherd.The night the EMP burns the sky green, Julian "Jules" Vanguard wants only one thing: to vanish into the Colorado Rockies and live out his days alone. A former soldier with no use for people, he has his rifle, his mountains, and a plan to disappear for good.Then a scream in the dark turns him around.Carrying a grieving widow down out of the high country, Jules stumbles into Butler Creek, a small town one year past the collapse, stubbornly trying to rebuild civilization with crops, cattle, and hope. It is exactly the kind of prize a warlord comes looking for.And a warlord is coming.The man who calls himself the Earl Grey is assembling an army, and he wants Butler Creek for himself. When Jules is attacked and gravely wounded, the town's nurse, Kylie Fort, pulls him back from death, and what grows between them gives him something he never expected to find again: a reason to stay.Now Jules must do the one thing he swore he never would. He must turn farmers and shopkeepers into fighters, dig in against impossible odds, and stand between the people he has come to love and an enemy who outnumbers them ten to one.He favors big guns. And before the harvest is over, he will need every one of them.The Earl is bringing thousands, with banners and war drums and an elite guard he calls the Immortals. Butler Creek has trenches, grit, and one soldier who knows how to make the strong bleed for every yard.It will cost them everything. It may not be enough.A relentless, action-packed thriller about love, loss, and the last good men standing in a fallen world. For fans of survival fiction that refuses to flinch.Some men kill because they must. A rare few stay men while doing it. Jules Vanguard is about to find out which kind he is.

Pagina's: 264, Paperback, Independently published