EBOOK. Book 1 of the Catalyst Series In a single heartbeat, the modern world dies. Planes plummet from darkened skies. Cars become lifeless husks at dead traffic lights. Every screen goes black, every connection severed.As thousands of satellites fall silent like dying stars, humanity faces a truth they're not ready to accept: the power isn't coming back. Not tomorrow. Not ever.Scott Montgomery thought his coastal cabin would be his escape from society. From a past he no longer wanted to remember. Now, as millions cling to the desperate belief that this is just another temporary outage, he alone seems to grasp the horrifying reality. But when he learns his young niece is trapped in a city falling into chaos, his self-imposed isolation must end.With a small group of new-found allies and Solo—a dog whose fierce intelligence matches his own survival instincts—Scott ventures into a collapsing world.In a race against time and human nature itself, Scott must navigate a landscape where every darkened window could hide either desperate survivors or something even worse. Because in a world where civilization crumbles faster than people's faith in it, saving his niece means becoming the very thing he's spent his life avoiding: someone others depend on to survive. Perfect for fans of William Forstchen's One Second After and A.G. Riddle's Pandemic. A haunting vision of civilization's end where the most dangerous thing isn't the darkness—it's the fatal hope that the lights will come back on. "Writing of this order is too rarely encountered and even for those who usually avoid post-apocalyptic stories, this one is so well conceived and written that it supersedes genre and is simply fine writing.” Downward Cycle is book one in the Catalyst Series, a post-apocalyptic CME/EMP thriller series following a group of survivors as they fight to stay alive after a massive blackout destroys the world's power supply.
