When a Miyake event, a solar storm a hundred times more powerful than anything on record, strikes the Earth, civilization disintegrates in a matter of hours. No electricity. No communications. No law.
Isabel Reyes, a PhD student in physics, saw the disaster coming from her lab. But understanding the science doesn’t prepare you to survive on streets where predators lurk around every corner.
Arizona doesn’t save people. Not anymore. Her past is written in scars and a list of names she’d rather forget. She trusts only her training, her instincts… and hands that are always cold.
When their paths cross, neither imagines that the encounter will change their lives forever. Together, accompanied by a German Shepherd who refuses to leave their side, they fight their way through the chaos toward a survivor colony where hope still holds out.