Downfall (Downfall #1)

When the lights went out, civilization fell in hours. Now survival means becoming someone you never thought you'd be.

Sam Prescott was closing the biggest deal of his career in Nevada when every electronic device on Earth died in an instant. Planes fell from the sky. Cars went silent. The modern world collapsed overnight. Now, with two thousand miles of lawless wasteland between him and his family, Sam must navigate a hellscape of burning cities and desperate survivors to get home.

Meanwhile, in St. Louis, his wife Rachel watches their safe suburban neighborhood transform into a war zone as neighbors turn predator and armed gangs claim territory house by house. With their supplies dwindling and killers closing in, she faces an impossible trust her children's lives to her convicted murderer brother-in-law, or watch them die defending a home that's already lost.

In a world where the strong prey on the weak, how far would you go to protect the ones you love?