After: The Shock (AFTER post-apocalyptic series, Book 1)
After: The Shock (AFTER post-apocalyptic series, Book 1)
by Scott Nicholson
AFTER: THE SHOCK
After a massive solar storm erases the world's technological infrastructure and kills billions, the few survivors discover some among them have...changed.
Rachel Wheeler flees while violent mutants known as "Zapheads" roam the city streets, killing and destroying. Her only hope is to reach the mountains, where her grandfather, a legendary survivalist, established a compound in preparation for doomsday.
When Rachel discovers a 10-year-old boy, she vows to care for him even at the risk of her own life. But Zapheads aren't the only danger. Rogue bands of military soldiers want to impose their own order in the crumbling ruins of civilization. And the Zapheads are evolving, developing communal skills even as they lay waste to the society they will eventually replace.