Georgia Barron – författare

In the shadow of the EMP that changed the world, Dr. Julie Walters,  and her brother, Ron and the rest of the Crain family were doing what they could to restore the small community of Sandbar, Washington to a degree of normalcy. Having prepared for some form of disaster most of his life, Harvey Crain, their father, was ready to help and protect his family and his community any way he could.  Running a clinic, while training a sixteen-year-old girl as her assistant, Julie tried to provide medical care to her community, while Ron, and his friend and fellow electrical engineering student, Craig, were trying to restore power one repaired solar panel at a time. Their household continued to grow as their lives changed, adapting to the pressures of living in this time of dystopia.  Could they turn this into a fulfilling life; that was the question.

Going from a fairy-tale life to a new existence, Gwen Bishop not only had to relocate and learn to live as a single parent, but she needed to adjust to being a completely different person. After fleeing the dangers and chaos of LA's gang wars, where her family had become the  target, she took what she still had of  her family to the only place she could think of that might be safe. Now, she needed to deal with the paranoia she was carrying with her while struggling to give her family the normality they needed. While doing with everything else, Gwen needed to learn how to be alone.

When the lights flickered out and the generator didn't come on, Julie Walters hadn't even felt surprised. Having been raised by a stepfather who had been prepping for an EMP or some other disaster all her life, Julie had quickly stolen medical supplies as she planned to ride her bike the forty miles home, where she knew she would be safe. Meanwhile, Ron Crain, Julie's brother, was sitting on a boat in San Francisco harbor, and he and two classmates had planned a day of fishing. Knowing it was their only chance, they took this old cabin cruiser up the coast and headed home.

Life had handed Arnez a twist she hadn't expected. Thinking of herself as a strong woman, she approached her problem like any self-confident woman would. She went with Plan A; she ignored her grief and plowed ahead, trying to live her life, thinking all she needed to do was work. After learning the hard way how that was an approach that wasn't working very well, Arnez she pulled herself together and moved on to Plan B. When killing herself didn't work, and God gave her a hard slap on the back of the head, she decided it was time to get back to putting energy into the only thing that was left, which was working Major Crimes in Seattle, and working out the kinks she had caused with her family and friends.