Overview
The lights are coming back. The struggle for control is just beginning.
Alder Creek has become a refuge for thirty-four people. It has a working well, limited fuel, and an uneasy agreement about who makes the rules.
That agreement is tested when Zero Authority identifies the property as a possible recovery center.
For Ethan Cole, cooperating could mean medicine, fuel, and protection for his family. It could also mean giving officials a say over the supplies that keep everyone alive.
Claire faces difficult decisions about medical care. Maya follows a trail of records that do not match the official timeline. Martin Hale wants answers about the blackout-and fears that emergency powers may last longer than the emergency itself.
As electricity returns to some cities and shortages deepen elsewhere, Alder Creek must decide who to shelter, what to share, and how much control to surrender.
New evidence begins to surface. But knowing what happened will not settle the hardest question: how do you rebuild a society when people no longer agree on whom to trust?
The Last Refuge is the third and final book in The Last Route, a realistic survival and conspiracy trilogy about family, fragile infrastructure, competing loyalties, and the difficult choices that follow a national collapse.
The journey that began with the blackout reaches its conclusion.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798175994101
- ISBN-10: 9798175994101
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: September 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.37 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 162
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