In a world ravaged by a deadly fungal outbreak, Travis Foster, a skilled farmer and survivalist, sets out on a harrowing journey to find his son, Isaiah, who had been living in the city for college when the infection spread. Along the way, Travis encounters Audrey Mitchell, a determined medical student fighting to survive on her own. Together, they form an alliance and search for a safer place to stay.
Their quest leads them to Fortitude Refuge, a survivor camp that becomes their temporary haven. However, internal conflicts threaten to tear the camp apart, and Travis, Isaiah, and Audrey must mediate and promote unity among its members, founding the Sons of Liberty.
Driven by hope and a desire for a better future, they expand their alliance, encountering other survivor camps and offering aid to those in need. As they face external threats, including the fanatical "Illusionists" and ruthless raiders known as "The Reckoners," their unity is put to the ultimate test.
As whispers of a mysterious group called "The Redeemers" emerge, a prelude teaser hints at a new challenge on the horizon. Shadows of redemption and echoes of their journey guide them towards a brighter tomorrow as they face moral dilemmas, confront their pasts, and fight for a world where compassion, unity, and hope prevail over darkness.
In Light's Descent, join Travis, Isaiah, Audrey, and the diverse cast of survivors as they navigate a treacherous post-apocalyptic landscape, battling the Infected and their own inner demons in their quest for redemption and a chance to rebuild a world that was once lost to the shadows.
Noel and Violet Oberllyn spent their adult careers working special ops for the U.S. government. After forty years of it, all they wanted was a peaceful retirement in the country. Just as it seemed those dreams might happen, a planned series of events forced their over achieving adult children to return home to live with the folks - all four of them with spouses in tow, each driven from their homes by different aspects of a government that had gone crazy. Kai a geneticist, with Zyanya his wife, Gabriel a bomb expert with their grandson little Gabe, Jasmine, a forensic psychiatrist married to Scott, a CPA, join their little sibs still living at home, Micah, an autistic savant and Serena, an artist, in uncovering a secretive group of people called the Brotherhood whose main goal appears to be to take the earth's population down from 7 billion to 500 million within the next 10 years. Having infiltrated the governments of most developed countries, and having released an airborne anti-fertility virus that rapidly spread across the planet, the Brotherhood succeeded in forcing a zero fertility rate. In the meantime, the economy of the U.S. tanked, the government sells all citizens who have debt into slavery within a system so harsh that civil disorder breaks out. Serenity Retreat Center is forced to become a slave labor camp and the family is forced back into special service to save the Center, their tribe, the United States and humanity from destruction. This was not going to be a quiet retirement....