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Synopsis
America is gone. The power is failing. The highways are filled with abandoned cars. And across Texas, entire towns are disappearing behind walls of smoke, silence, and blood. Former Navy SEAL Cotton Wiley has one job left: keep his twelve-year-old daughter alive. Moving only at night and avoiding what remains of civilization, Cotton has survived the collapse through instinct, violence, and the hard lessons learned in war. Because in the new America, starvation is only the beginning. The infected roam the countryside, desperate survivors prey on each other, and every stranger is a potential threat. Then Cotton finds the house. What begins as a search for food and shelter pulls him into something far worse than he imagined. The infected are changing. Entire communities are being wiped out overnight. And whispers are spreading across the survivor networks about someone out there controlling the monsters wandering the ruins. But when Cotton crosses paths with a mysterious young woman carrying secrets of her own, he’s forced into a brutal choice: keep running… or risk everything for the chance that something worth saving still exists in the ashes of the old world. Because survival is no longer enough. And the fall of America is only the beginning. Fallen States is a fast-paced post-apocalyptic thriller perfect for fans of The Road, The Last of Us, and The Walking Dead.
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Fallen States: A Post-Apocalyptic Virus Thriller: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
Intense post-apocalyptic thriller with graphic violence including infected monsters, survival violence, and communities being massacred. A father protects his daughter through brutal circumstances in a collapsed America.
What to know going in
This book has strong violence, no sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include child harm, graphic violence, gore, murder, and death (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens drawn to intense survival stories like The Last of Us will find a gripping father-daughter journey through an infected wasteland.