The Siege of New Hampshire
How would ordinary people cope if the world suddenly went grid-down?
How would YOU cope?
Most preppers know that they’re not as fully prepared as they’d like. What if the crisis came and all you had was what you had right now?
This series is a different approach to post-apocalyptic fiction. My goal was to write a realistic tale about how ordinary people struggle to cope with a suddenly grid-down world. The protagonist is not a former Navy SEAL with super ninja skills, is not an expert marksman, nor automatically has the perfect answer or gadget for every predicament. Instead, he is just an average guy trying to cope. The men and women in this story have to make do with whatever they had and improvise for the rest.
Book 1: Plan B: Revised
The story begins with the mysterious grid-down event. No one knows why the grid failed, nor does the “why” matter much. The city is paralyzed. Everyone in Boston is trying to get home. Gridlock. Martin decides to walk the 50 miles to his home in New Hampshire. His plan did not account for Susan.
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“…not a stereotypical survival story… It is realism to the N
Kindle reader: Teiguth degree.”
Book 2: Siege Fall
Getting home was only the beginning. NH officials refuse strings-attached federal aid. Thus begins the forced isolation: The Siege.
The people of Cheshire have to face the prospect of the coming winter with whatever resources they already have or can improvise. No help will be coming from “outside.”
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“The characters are honest and the struggles are things everyone would face in the situation.”
kindle reader: Tin Lizzy
Book 3: Hunger Season
The story continues as the people of Cheshire have to endure winter without modern conveniences. They face food shortages, a blizzard, and murder. Internal power struggles and a traitor in their midst only add to the troubles. Susan decides that she must go for help, no matter how desperate the plan.
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“At times, grim, at times, hilarious…Well written and compelling.”
Amazon customer: Dusty
Book 4: Susan’s Bridge
Susan left Cheshire to help get a shipment of food through the federal siege. The trip turned out to be far more perilous than she imagined. She must flee farther from New Hampshire, eventually finding herself alone in the woods in the middle of winter. To survive both the elements and evil, she must rely upon an inner strength she is not sure she has.
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“The most enjoyable book of the series, though I enjoyed all of them.”
Amazon customer: Owl Creek Observer
Book 5: Critical Spring
Continuing the story of the people of Cheshire as they survived the winter but must make the most of the coming growing season to ensure that they survive the next winter. They must neutralize the band of criminals that attacked their town and then deal with mysterious raiders sneaking up from Massachusetts. Martin and Susan’s lives become unexpectedly intertwined again.
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“Mic has a very smooth writing style that captures your imagination quickly and hangs on to it for the duration. That pacing is well established, and allows the characters to develop with just the right amount of action. It leaves you wonder if all this could really happen!”
Amazon customer: Michael Lowe
Book 6: The Summer of Wood & Iron
Summertime has the people of Cheshire busy growing crops in just about any available space. Despite being having too much to do already, Charles convinces Martin to help a promoter, C.T. Farnum, repair a hundred-year-old steam locomotive and create a north-south trade. People in the north would trade firewood, which they had in abundance, with people in southern New Hampshire who were growing crops. Getting a functional train running turns out to have more challenges that they thought…
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“It is so good to find books written with so much knowledge about how life might truly be lived after grid meltdown. Farming communities and trading and blacksmithing and figuring out plant based products for everyday living. Great characters; good story. I had almost given up on this genre as most books have militias on day 2 shooting it out with automatic rifles and hidden arms stashes. These books are so much more realistic”
— Amazon customer
Book 7: Backstories
A collection of four novelettes that trace the backstories of four characters in the Siege of New Hampshire series.
Refuge Mountain tells how the Matt Stakel character in Book 6 came to be living the hermit’s life in the NH Mountains.
Susan’s Raid tells how and why Susan was under that railroad bridge in Book 6.
Harold’s Escape is the story of why he was just the man to repair the broken locomotive.
The Rise and Fall of the Utopians explains how and Andy & the UNH students had their Paradise of Primal Paleo Peace in the woods behind the Simmons property.
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Written, but not in print yet. Hopefully, coming soon
Book 8: Hard Harvest
After a summer of growing crops everyone in Cheshire is flat-out busy trying to get their harvests in and secure before winter comes. A Guest Worker Program has people from the north employed on farm in the south. The railroad’s “cord-bucks” money is in circulation, aiding the growing economy but there are counterfeiters at work, undermining confidence.
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Written, but not in print yet. After Book 7 is out