Owen Kessler, MD

Dr. Owen Kessler spent twenty years preparing for the end of the world. When the grid over San Antonio dies and stays dead, he learns the disaster he prepared for isn’t the one that arrives — and that the barn was never the real preparation. The neighbors were.

Eighty-one days after the grid died, power returns to Salado Creek — and Owen learns the hardest hour is the one after the rescue. A war he buried decades ago is surfacing, and a disciplined crew is reading his county’s network for the soft place, planning to take it.