When the lights go out forever, former MARSOC operator Kane Harlan has one mission left: keep his nine-year-old daughter Liora alive.
After an EMP collapse plunges Denver into chaos, Kane returns home to find his bitter ex-wife has dumped Liora on the porch with nothing but a spiteful note. As gangs form overnight and the city descends into looting, rape, and murder, Kane activates the only skills he still trusts—Marine tactics, cold precision, and an unbreakable will to protect what’s his.
Then he hears the screams.
In a back alley, two terrified college girls—Raven, a soft, gothic outcast, and Willow, a petite, bookish redhead—are about to be claimed by a pack of predators. Kane doesn’t hesitate. He intervenes with brutal efficiency, saving them both.
Now four souls travel together: a battle-hardened father, his jealous young daughter, and two vulnerable young women who have never known violence—until the world ended. As they fight their way out of the dying city toward a hidden MARSOC supply cache deep in the Colorado Rockies, Kane must balance ruthless survival with the growing dependence of the two girls who look at him like he’s the last safe thing left on Earth.
Liora wants her father back.
Raven and Willow want the man who saved them.
Jade wants revenge—and she’s sending killers to take it.
In a world where mercy is weakness and every bullet counts, one ex-Marine will discover that the hardest war he’ll ever fight isn’t against the gangs hunting them.
It’s against the new family forming around him—and the feelings he swore he would never allow.
Reaper’s Oath — When the world ends, the only thing that matters is who you choose to protect