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When agronomist Ben Harker discovers a catastrophic collapse in regional pollinator activity, he assumes it’s a data error. Until the bees start dying outside his own lab window. What begins as a scientific mystery quickly becomes a survival nightmare. As crops fail and insect life vanishes across the Midwest, Ben and a small group of rural families uncover the truth: the collapse wasn’t natural. It began with HELIX—a classified bioweapon, developed under the guise of an agricultural fail-safe meant to preserve food production after nuclear war…

The Earth slipped—a shift barely more than a degree on paper, but enough to fracture fault lines, drown cities, and rip the jet stream into shreds. The skies burned with auroras. Rivers swelled and reversed course, turning tall hills into islands. Satellites went silent. And within days, society collapsed.

Normalcy ceased to exist in the United States the instant the Iranian EMP warheads detonated, relieving America of its abundant luxuries and conveniences. The event pushed the entire country backward in a millisecond. Backward in time to the mid-1800s—to a lifestyle that preceded the telephone and, for most, even the use of a simple lightbulb.

The Reckoning had passed, but the loss of life and destruction left in its wake defied imagination. Not in JT Clarke's wildest dreams could he have foreseen the speed at which society consumed itself. The little village of Somerset, once a quaint rural community, lay in utter ruins, uninhabitable after the final thread of morality wore thin and snapped.

After being launched from their container ships in the Gulf of Mexico, the three specially calibrated nuclear warheads carried by Shahab-3 ICBM’s detonated in space at 10:58 AM, directly over Utah, Kansas and West Virginia. For a fraction of a millisecond, the late morning October sky brightened, the event over with so quickly it was basically imperceptible from the ground.