EMP Catastrophe , Hamilton, Grace [phonics readers txt] 📗

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About Grace Hamilton

Grace Hamilton is the prepper pen-name for a bad-ass, survivalist momma-bear of four kids, and wife to a wonderful husband. After being stuck in a mountain cabin for six days following a flash flood, she decided she never wanted to feel so powerless or have to send her kids to bed hungry again. Now she lives the prepper lifestyle and knows that if SHTF or TEOTWAWKI happens, she’ll be ready to help protect and provide for her family.

Combine this survivalist mentality with a vivid imagination (as well as a slightly unhealthy day dreaming habit) and you get a prepper fiction author. Grace spends her days thinking about the worst possible survival situations that a person could be thrown into, then throwing her characters into these nightmares while trying to figure out "What SHOULD you do in this situation?"

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A dire situation keeps getting worse…

When Matthew Riley’s father collapses with a possible heart attack, it drives home just how bad the situation in Galena, IL has become after an EMP knocked out the power around the world. David needs medication and the group needs a doctor if everyone is going to survive in the long term. But hostile forces have their eyes on the River Rock Hotel, and keeping the family safe may be impossible.

Things aren’t going back to normal…

Kathleen Riley knows it, even if her husband hasn’t admitted it yet. With new allies at their side, the Riley family has a chance to fortify their hotel and start rebuilding a life in the new world. But with Matthew rushing to make things seem normal again, they’re at risk of exposing themselves to hostile forces.

An old enemy returns…

Life is already difficult enough even before the family receives news that Samuel West is back in town. He’s brought friends and he’s ready to fight to take control of the Red Rock Hotel and the remnants of Galena. The Rileys will do anything to keep their land, but after another tragedy strikes they may not be able to win. After all, what is survival worth if everything you’re surviving for is never coming back?

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EXCERPT

Chapter One

Within Matthew’s arms, David’s weak form slowly become dead weight.

David’s feet stumbled against the ground, his toes dragging, even with Matthew and Wyatt’s strength keeping him upright. Patton grunted as he tried to help hold his grandfather up. The heavy press of David’s shoulders sank into Matthew, seeming to become wooden and lifeless.

The weight made Matthew’s muscles tremble with exertion as he tried to encourage his father to continue walking up the mountain and back to the hotel. We’re not going to make it, he thought, panicked.

Patton let out a frustrated cry of denial just before David slipped from their collective grasp, nearly collapsing on the ground. Matthew caught Wyatt’s concerned gaze. They needed to pause and readjust. More than that, they needed to make sure David was still breathing. The thought sent another wave of panicked grief through him, but Matthew refused to give in to it. David was still alive. This was just a setback. They could handle this. They would get David home. All he needed was rest. Once they got back to the hotel, David would be fine.

Matthew’s arms shook as he and Wyatt laid David face-up on the side of the road. When Matthew knelt over his father, the sight of David’s face filled him with dread. David looked pale. Sweat dotted his brow. When Matthew reached out to touch his cheek, his father’s skin felt clammy and cold.

“Dad, I’m sorry,” Patton sobbed. “Grandpa was too heavy. I didn’t mean to drop him!”

Matthew took in a shuddering breath and was about to console his son when his mind went blank, all except for the image of his parents’ old house in Chicago. That cramped dining room filled to the brim with inherited furniture, and the smell of roasted chicken filling the air.

This couldn’t be happening again. Memories slammed into him like a hammer hitting an anvil. David’s mouth parted just a touch and he took a wheezing breath in, but he didn’t exhale.

Was this another heart attack?

Not again, Matthew thought as he fell to his knees and placed his hands over David’s chest. Forming fists, he pushed hard against the breastbone protecting David’s heart. He began to do chest compressions and rescue breathing. With each pump of his hands pushing into David’s chest, he remembered the first time he’d done this. The first time he’d failed at this…

He, Kathleen, and the kids had gone over to his parents’ house for dinner. It had been a semi-consistent event for them. Half the time they cancelled dinners because of Matthew’s meetings going late with clients, or Kathleen needing to stay up late to grade papers, or sometimes they were just too exhausted and lied, ordering pizza and feeling guilty instead. But this time, they’d