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Jim Summers was a classic case of the black sheep of the family. He grew up with parents and siblings who made it clear that they wished he didn’t exist. After a tough childhood with no options, Jim joins the Navy and becomes a lifer who finally retires with over 30 years in the service. Jim looks long and hard to determine where he wants to live out his days before settling on a remote part of Tennessee where he builds a cabin with a deep basement shelter. After a career in the Navy where Jim knew just how close we had come to nuclear war on multiple occasions, he becomes a hard core ...

Ralph Bean was born into tough circumstances losing his father to Viet Nam before he was even born. Dealing with a less than loving stepfather, he grows up as an isolated loner on a remote farm. With few options after high school, Ralph follows in his father’s footsteps and enlists in the Marine Corps. The tough upbringing helps to hone the skills necessary to excel as a Marine Corps scout sniper. When his operation in the Middle East is compromised, Ralph Bean ceases to exist and is given a new identity by the CIA. Now Jim Stalker, he builds his dream home in an abandoned limestone ...

Colton Winchester grew up being everything that his father wanted him to be. He was forced to put aside his interest in the outdoors and becoming a prepper just to satisfy his father’s desire to raise a son with the proper credentials to become a wealthy professional. Left with little choice as a boy, Colton decided to become what his father wanted by excelling in sports and academics. He was able to secure a scholarship to Yale where he checked all the right boxes to be invited into the Skull and Bones Society. After graduating law school, Colton secured a job as a corporate attorney for...

Cody Binder had grown up as the smart kid in his class. He lost his mother to cancer and later his father in an alcohol fueled car accident. With no other family, and only a full ride scholarship to MIT to fall back on, Cody puts everything he has into getting a good education and planning his future. After graduation, Cody takes a job with an automation manufacturer where he quickly makes his mark. Living like a hermit and working long days, he amasses a sizeable next egg. After an unfortunate medical issue, Cody meets a nurse named Grace while in the hospital recovering from emergency ...

Fred Brown grew up a country boy learning life lessons from his single mother and grandpa. He was just a farm kid who avoided the town and city kids, and embraced the country boy lifestyle. Fred used the local vocational school to learn skills as a welder and began working for a metal fabrication shop as soon as he graduated from high school. After encouraging his mom to start dating again, both Fred and his mom meet their life partners, and the four of them band together to expand the family excavating business owned by the father and daughter team they were about to marry. Together, the ...

EJ Masterson wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth. In fact, he had it about as tough as any young person in the modern age. After losing his beloved Grandpa, EJ is forced to go to work at the age of 14 to help support himself and his mother. The lessons learned from his Grandpa, a retired Marine Corps Sergeant Major, help EJ to come to grips with life and make a solid plan for the future. After meeting an abused girl at the grocery where they both worked, EJ finds his life partner while helping her to plan her escape at age 18. They discover a shared interest in becoming prepared ...

Leo Ferrel was the terror of the school system in Kooskia, Idaho. Leo was the product of a single parent who spent more time beating on her son than raising him. When Leo’s mother decides that she has an opportunity for a better life, she abandons her son at age 14. Leo is left with an old pickup truck and just enough money to survive while trying to find a better home than the old rusted trailer that was the only home he had ever known. Leo decides to make one of the caves on his property livable in order to escape the dilapidated trailer and try to build a better life. Along the way, ...

Jimmy Madison was the product of low life parents who neither one wanted to be saddled with a kid. When Jimmy’s mother is forced to send him to school, officials immediately realize the abysmal conditions that he has been forced to endure. Jimmy is placed with foster parents who completely turn his life around providing a loving Christian environment and a happy childhood. Jimmy grows into a young man learning about farm life and outdoor sports while gaining many skills along the way. After graduating high school, he embraces becoming an adult after he inherits his biological father’s ...

Danny Grubb had grown up in a tough environment and his reputation as a less than desirable individual was well known within his local community. His entire life changes one evening when he is pulled over and is about to be arrested for his third DUI. An old high school acquaintance cuts him a break and helps Danny change his life for the better. Danny finds God and a girl named Hope in the process. Together they help each other to overcome their difficulties while adopting a preparedness lifestyle. Through hard work and a little luck, they manage to finish their preparations and ride out ...

Billy Turner is forced to grow up at an early age after surviving a broken home. The uncertainty he experiences influences his tendencies towards being prepared from the age of nine. Forced into a situation where he lives by himself during the week while his father is away at work, Billy is smart and resourceful to avoid becoming entrapped in the foster care system. Together, he and his dad embark on a mission to become prepared for the bad times that both fear are coming. Along the way Billy meets Heather who shares his secrets and leads him to the Lord in her father’s church. Tragedy ...

E. Steven Hodges drank the entire pitcher of corporate Kool Aide as he became a master manipulator to climb the corporate ladder in pursuit of his idea of success. After unknowingly giving his corporate masters the information they needed to justify moving their entire manufacturing operation to Mexico, Steven Hodges realizes that he has betrayed the very people who worked to raise him and give him the opportunity to succeed in life. Steven transforms back into Elmer and leaves the corporate world behind as he works to renovate his childhood cabin where he plans to become a hermit. Elmer ...

James Earl Hamilton had that gift that separates the smart kids from the rest of society. After a difficult experience in high school, Jim finds acceptance in college only to find that he is again an anomaly in his professional life. A lucky investment in a new currency called Bitcoin makes Jim more money than he ever dreamed, but he swears off all social relationships after a bad experience with a girlfriend. With his newfound wealth and staying grounded as a farm boy at heart, Jim embarks on his own journey moving to a remote location where he constructs his dream home and embraces the ...

Lee Burton had been a punching bag for every authority figure in his life since he took his first breath. When a series of events costs him his career, his wife and nearly his life; he has the good fortune to meet a skilled therapist named Sarah Pullman. With Sarah’s help, Lee manages to salvage his life and commits the cardinal sin of falling for his therapist. Fortunately, the feeling is mutual and the new couple find themselves with much more in common than either could have imagined. Together, they embark on a journey to escape the stresses in life building a remote retreat. When ...

This is a story of survival and revenge. Tim Turner must not only survive the malicious nasty cruel deceitful world of corporate politics, but prepare for the future apocalypse that he is sure to come. Though suffering from severe mental illness inflicted upon him by the 1 percenters and beautiful people in life, Tim manages to extract sweet revenge and payback permitting him to pursue his prepper lifestyle finding love along the way. Together, Tim and Laura surround themselves with a group of like-minded individuals who become a tight knit family while preparing for and surviving the worst...

Rod and Lanna Scott finally reach the retirement milestone where they plan to quietly maintain an inconspicuous prepper lifestyle. An unexpected turn of good luck propels them into a world where they must try to maintain anonymity while using their new found wealth to realize their dreams of being fully prepared for the bad times that they believe are on the horizon. While the world continues to slowly disintegrate, Rod and Lanna are launched on journey that sees them prepared for bad times beyond anything they could have imagined while finding new friendships and a new found connection in ...

After dealing with multiple health issues, Mike Carson, along with his wife Emily, finally survive stressful careers and make it to retirement. After an unthinkable attack is perpetrated against the newly elected President and his entire cadre of political allies, the Speaker of the House takes control. As the now dead President’s most bitter rival, the newly sworn in President acts immediately declaring martial law and moving to seize all weapons, ammunition, and precious metals. Knowing they will be a target of the gun eradication movement, a loosely formed group of neighbors decide to ...

Tom and Nicole live the quiet life in rural Indiana when they are unexpectantly confronted with a nuclear war. Tom, an avid prepper, manages to make it home from work just as a nuclear detonation takes out the military base where he works. Together the couple manage to survive the nuclear fallout in a basement shelter along with their Labrador Retriever, Curly. In a world now almost entirely devoid of human and animal life, they gradually learn to provide for themselves. When they are joined by their nephew and his wife, the four work together to overcome the weather, food shortages and a ...

Anna and Jim Nolte retire to a remote Alaskan cabin after growing completely disillusioned with people and society in general. The cabin was constructed as a hunting and fishing lodge catering to people who wanted to fly in to a remote location, but not sacrifice their luxuries like indoor plumbing. Anna and Jim are soul mates and preppers to the core living a subsistence lifestyle where Jim could hunt and trap to his heart’s content. Even in remote Alaska, they are confronted with an EMP attack on the lower 48 and the uncertainty of knowing what will happen next.

Andy Turner, an electronics engineer newly retired from the US Navy, has always had a burning desire for a greatness which has continually alluded him during a long career dealing with bureaucrats and political managers in a broken government system. A chance meeting at the USS Missouri Museum spawns a friendship that blossoms into a project to refit the USS Missouri with modern propulsion, weapons and electronics. The storied and once great battleship undergoes a transformation into a sleek modern warship where she takes her place again as a primary ship amidst the US Navy fleet. As a ...

Sam Jones finally hit his limit of endurance with the narcissistic nature of self-absorbed individuals who are transfixed in the fake reality of social media. Fed up with society in general and the direction that a liberal Government is taking the United States, Sam decides to go off the grid and enjoy his retirement years. Along the way, Sam connects with a friend who fills his life with joy and purpose after losing his wife of many years. Together Sam and Samantha embark on a life journey to relocate to a remote section of the country. Their efforts are bolstered by newfound riches and ...