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Synopsis
The river reverses. The last road floods. A family closing the distance between them. Will Mason braces against a fence post as the cornfield dissolves beneath his boots, a geyser of sand and water erupting behind him. One wrong move and he’ll never find Erin. With the ground turning to soup for miles in every direction, every step carries him farther from the wife he’s desperate to find. Erin Mason folds a road map against a shuttered fruit stand and tells her students they're leaving. Staying on the convoy could mean watching them drown. With a compass in her hand and eight teenagers at her back, she steps onto an unmarked gravel track, praying she's right. Cassidy Mason wades chest-deep into floodwater as the current claws at her legs, a small girl clinging to the roof of a submerged SUV ahead. Her father screams her name from the bank. She does not stop. She knows that child. With the Mississippi reversed and the lowlands drowning, the Masons must fight toward each other before the last road to high ground disappears beneath the flood. Shattered Horizon is the final book in a post-apocalyptic disaster thriller series following ordinary people struggling to survive when a massive earthquake rips through the heart of America.
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Is Shattered Horizon: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
Parents should know this book depicts intense natural disaster scenarios including flooding, drowning danger, and life-threatening situations involving children. The focus is on survival and family reunion with moderate peril throughout.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include child harm, death, and drowning (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens will be gripped by the fast-paced survival story as three family members race to reunite before catastrophic floods destroy everything.