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Synopsis
When the world crumbles around you, will your foundations hold firm? Get this thrilling 6-book series in one complete package! From 4.5-million-copy bestselling author MIKE KRAUS, writing with Stacey Upton! A series of global earthquakes cascade across the world, their ferocity unmatched by any other natural disaster in human history. Cities are turned to rubble in moments, deep bunkers are sealed shut in an instant, tens of millions are dead in the first hours, and as aftershocks threaten to further destabilize what remains, those few who survived are forced to navigate a broken country. On her Virginia homestead, Mara Padgett faces an impossible task: keeping her three children safe as food runs low and desperation runs high. Separated by hundreds of miles from his wife at their homestead, Logan barely survives a plane crash and takes a young orphan under his wing, but must soon choose between the child's welfare and quickly returning to his own family. Meanwhile, Mara's sister Deb is one of the few to have survived the cataclysmic tremors triggered by the New Madrid fault line that left much of the East Coast in ruins. With nothing left for her in Memphis, she embarks on a perilous trek across the ruined landscape to join her sister in Virginia, though what she finds along the way will test her in ways she can never imagine. In Washington, D.C., geologist Ripley Baxter is buried alive in the remains of the White House bunker, with the President presumed dead and no hope for rescue. She must summon the strength to free herself from the rubble or face a slow, agonizing death, but nothing has prepared her for the journey – and obstacles – she will face along the way.
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Is Nowhere to Turn: The Complete Series: A Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Series appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
Parents should know this book depicts a catastrophic global earthquake with mass casualties and detailed survival situations. Characters face starvation, violence from desperate survivors, and life-threatening injuries including being buried alive.
What to know going in
This book has strong violence, no sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include child harm, captivity, death, mass death, and grief (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teen readers who enjoy intense survival stories with strong family bonds and multiple perspectives will be drawn to this high-stakes disaster thriller.