The Bomb Hit a Small Town in America

The county fair was supposed to be the brightest day of the summer—rides, music, and laughter echoing across Minnetonka’s fields. Then the sky split open. A mushroom cloud rose on the horizon, and moments later, light and fire erased everything. The nearby city is gone. The fairgrounds are rubble. Thousands are dead, and the few still breathing stumble blind, burned, and screaming into the river. You wake beneath the wreckage, miraculously alive. Around you, the small Midwestern town is a vision of hell—smoke, ash, and silence broken only by the cries of the dying. In the chaos, you drag free a young woman named Millie Larkin, pinned beneath the carcass of her prize cow. She’s alive, defiant, and determined to find her family twelve miles away. But the world has changed in an instant. Firestorms burn the horizon, fallout drifts on the wind, and every survivor you meet will be desperate, wounded, or dangerous. Together—or alone—you must decide what to risk, who to save, and how far you’ll go in a land where everything familiar has turned to ash. [AC-Enabled! Thanks Lewd_Leah!]