The Ones We Protect: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Novel - Paperback

by Kevin Hawkinson (Author)

THE SUN CHANGED. EVERYTHING ELSE FOLLOWED.

The world unraveled in a single morning.

The power dies. Cars stop running. Phones fall silent. When strange colors fill the sky and every modern system fails, thirteen-year-old Logan Hopkins realizes this is far more than a blackout.

His parents are hundreds of miles away. His younger brothers are looking to him for answers. And their nanny, Becca, may be the only adult left standing between them and a neighborhood beginning to collapse.

At first, people wait for help.

Then food disappears. Water runs low. Strangers come to the door. Neighbors who once waved from driveways start watching from windows. And as fear spreads, Logan learns the disaster may not be the greatest threat.

It may be the people left behind.

Their only hope lies somewhere to the south-if they can reach it.

But the road is no longer safe. Every mile brings new danger, impossible choices, and a truth Logan is not ready to face: when everything people depend on disappears, protecting the ones you love may require becoming someone you never expected to be.

Because when everything falls apart, the only thing that matters is the ones we protect.

The Ones We Protect is a grounded post-apocalyptic survival thriller about family, resilience, and the hard choices ordinary people face when the systems holding the world together disappear.

Perfect for fans of grid-down survival fiction, post-apocalyptic thrillers, EMP/CME disaster stories, and character-driven survival journeys.