SHANE SMITH

TEXAS, 1854Justice has a price. Charlie Rea is about to pay it. When Mexican bandits raid his ranch in the dead of night, Charlie Rea loses more than cattle —he loses the lives of two good men and the peace he's built over years of hard work.

The world ended in fire. What remained was faith. In the growing settlement of New Hope, survival is no longer the only struggle. Food is scarce. Trust is fragile. And beneath the fragile peace of the community, something dangerous is beginning to take shape.

Thomas Calloway has spent eleven years behind a desk in St. Louis, building a life defined by routine, numbers, and quiet certainty. But when he uproots his family to claim land in the Nebraska Territory, he steps into a world where certainty has no place.

When a nameless drifter rides into Redemption Gulch, he expects nothing more than a meal and a quiet night. Instead, he finds a town ruled by fear —where power hides behind ledgers, violence masquerades as law, and silence is the price of survival. A wrongful arrest turns deadly.

Before he was Roger Henderson's twin witness, Heath Morrison was a broken man. As a Marine chaplain serving in Iran on the day the world ended, Heath watched civilization collapse from half a world away from the family he loved.

In the burned-out mining town of Redemption, a gunfighter with nothing left to lose finds one last reason to live. Jed Harker has been running from his past for ten years—ever since the fire that killed his wife and left him with scars no bullet could heal.

When the world ends in fire and radiation, what becomes of faith? For Roger Henderson, a solitary software engineer living an ordinary life in Meadowbrook, North Carolina, August 15th, 2027 begins like any other Tuesday. But by 9:47 AM, everything changes.

Elena Hart has spent years perfecting the art of invisibility. With a respectable job, sensible apartment, and carefully curated life choices, she's built a comfortable existence that satisfies everyone but herself.

In the lawless expanse of 1850s Kansas Territory, justice rides on the fastest draw—and nobody draws faster than Conner Smith.