The Ones We Protect

THE SUN CHANGED. EVERYTHING ELSE FOLLOWED.

The world unraveled in a single morning.

The power dies. Cars stop running. Phones fall silent. When strange colors appear in the sky and every modern system fails, thirteen-year-old Logan Hopkins realizes this is far more than a blackout.

With their parents stranded hundreds of miles away, Logan is left with his younger brothers, Charlie and Tripp, and their nanny, Becca, as their neighborhood begins to collapse around them.

Food disappears from store shelves. Neighbors who once waved from driveways start watching from windows. And when Logan realizes the people around them are becoming the danger, staying put is no longer an option.

Their only hope lies somewhere to the south-if they can reach it.

But for a boy with two little brothers depending on him, the road there is no longer safe.

The farther they travel, the clearer the truth becomes: when the systems people depend on disappear, the only law left is whoever is willing to enforce it.

And protecting the people you love may require becoming someone you never expected to be.

Because when everything falls apart... the only thing that matters is the ones we protect.