The Ridge Universe
Stories of ordinary people under extraordinary pressure.
Realistic grid-down thrillers set on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.
Two stories are available now. Book Two continues the Ridge story in 2027.
Start with The Ridge Plan
1. The Ridge Plan → 2. Twenty-Eight Days West
Prefer chronological order? Read Twenty-Eight Days West first.
Either story can stand on its own.
The Ridge Universe · Book 1
The Ridge Plan
When the Grid Falls, One Ridge Stands
In the dead of a Pacific Northwest winter, the lights go out and stay out. No phones. No help.
On a forested ridge above Port Angeles, Tom and Claire Donovan are not survival celebrities. They are neighbors who prepared quietly—and now must lead five households that barely knew one another beyond a wave on the road.
Veterans, retirees, a gardener, a nurse, a road foreman, and a young soldier must combine their supplies, skills, and judgment before fear, hunger, and violence reach the ridge.
They can stand alone and fail, or turn one rural road into a community.
Novel · Book One · Published June 2026 · Kindle and paperback
A RIDGE UNIVERSE COMPANION NOVELLA
Twenty-Eight Days West
One family. One direction left to go
The grid dies on New Year’s Day.
In Port Angeles, Jason, Rachel, and seventeen-year-old Mary Keller are not preppers. He is a boilermaker who can bake bread. She teaches physics. Their neighborhood is overtaken within days.
With almost nothing left, the family walks west through hunger, cold, and other people’s fear, searching for one ridge that might still hold.
Twenty-eight days. No rescue. Just an ordinary family deciding what they will become.
Novella · Standalone companion story · Kindle and paperback
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING
“Characters feel like neighbors you might actually know rather than idealized survivors. The novel’s greatest strength is its focus on community, leadership under pressure, trust-building, moral choices, and the messy realities of flawed but capable people working together.”
— Linda Faires
The Ridge story continues.
THE LONG SHADOW
A new Ridge Universe title is planned for Summer 2027. If you want to read early and leave an honest review, join the ARC team.
Book Two of The Ridge Universe
Thirty-one days after the lights went out, the Ridge is still standing—but the silence is ending.
A single encrypted ping draws a new player out of the fog, old wounds refuse to stay buried, and the quiet work of surviving becomes the harder work of deciding who can be trusted.
Planned for Summer 2027
Begin with Book One
Five households. One isolated road. Thirty days to become something stronger than neighbors.