Roadways are clogged, government assistance is stymied, infrastructure is failing – so what do you do? Who do you turn to for help? How do you protect yourself or your family? There’s no perfect solution, and you know it. But you have to do something. When a virus the likes of which the world has never seen sweeps across Chicago, a close knit group of neighbors find themselves asking these same questions. Do they stay and try to ride out the storm? Or do they cut and run? As the virus spreads, and the world crumbles, will the group find their hold out for humanity? Will they find…...

“Descent” is book #3 in the Systemic series. It’s been nearly six months since the deadliest pandemic the planet has ever known decimated the world’s population. John Stevens has discovered that it’s not the virus that has proved most dangerous to him and his family though, but the people it left behind. Having escaped the Chicagoland area only to be pushed farther south by the territorial demands of other survivors, John and his family are desperate to find some semblance of the world they once knew. So when they stumble across a small farm in rural Georgia, inhabited by a ...

"Downfall" is book #1 in the Systemic series. Something terrible is breeding in the mountains of northwest China…a virus so infectious, its symptoms so overwhelming that its mortality rate is almost absolute. The “Su flu” as it eventually becomes known, quickly ravages the body of its host, killing it within just days, and worse yet, it’s gone airborne. Just weeks after making its appearance on the world stage – the earth’s population held as its captive audience – the virus has taken that stage and annihilated nearly all its spectators. Writer and stay-at-home dad John ...

(Aftermath is a stand-alone, three-part series picking up where the Systemic series left off)The Su flu pandemic began in the Gansu province of China and spread across the world like wildfire. In its aftermath, humans gathered together, first in small groups, later in larger ones, in the hopes of ensuring their continued survival – survival from the elements and survival from other humans. Some people thought it enough to try to make a new life for themselves by using what they found, what they could build, what they could grow. Others found it easier to take, to intimidate, to kill. As a...

“Forsaken” is book #4 in the Systemic series. It’s been a long and arduous journey since John Stevens rallied his family together in the remote forests of southern Illinois in an effort to shelter them from the most devastating pandemic in history. Now they’ve finally discovered a secluded spot in the abandoned town of Olsten, Georgia where they finally feel safe from the dangers of the outside world. But are they? While John and his family look for solace from the Su flu’s aftermath, Jake Stines and Ava Acadro are searching for anything but isolation. They’re looking to make ...