American Fallout

Had Ellena Reed stayed home that weekend, she would've been nothing but ash on her kitchen floor when the warheads hit. Instead, she's wading through a Georgia swamp with her stepsister Button, while civilization burns.

With radioactive dust settling through the cypress trees, Ellena digs deep into instincts she never knew she had. At their campground, a man appears who claims to be an ex-SEAL. His stories check out too perfectly, as if someone wrote them in a manual, and when he talks about the bombs, about exactly where they fell and why his voice takes on the precise, empty tone of a newscaster reading tomorrow's forecast.

But the radiation isn't their only problem. Something moves in the murk beyond their campfires, watching. The group's nerves fray, and buried secrets are clawing their way up through the muck just when Ellena needs solid ground beneath her feet.

In a world where trust is as rare as clean water, Fallout in Georgia is a raw-nerve thriller about survival, betrayal, and what remains of a person after everything goes up in flames.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS. E. Glen is a writer with a background in mathematics and the author of a published statistics textbook. She has also been an M.C. at The Comedy Zone—Proof that numbers don't always tell the complete story. A lifelong fan of psychological thrillers and survival fiction, S.E. Glen blends sharp tension, dark humor, atmospheric horror, and character-driven suspense in her storytelling. When not writing, she researches obscure disaster preparedness techniques, tests the limits of her caffeine intake, and tries to convince her border collie that the world isn't ending just because they lost their ball. Fallout in Georgia is her first novel.