TITLE: FALLOUT
SERIES: EMP COLLAPSE #1
AUTHOR:SAM J FIRES
GENRE: POST APOCALYPTIC SURVIVAL THRILLER
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 02ND 2026
Synopsis
When the grid goes down, the only way out is underground.
An EMP strike plunges Las Vegas into darkness.
Cars die. Phones go silent. Emergency services vanish.
In one of the most artificial cities on earth, survival becomes the only thing that matters.
Rosa has always lived between two worlds. By day, she works at one of Vegas’s most exclusive golf clubs. By night, she disappears into the storm tunnels beneath the Strip, where a hidden community survives on scraps and silence.
When a helicopter crashes into the club and no help comes, Rosa does the one thing she never does—she stays. She pulls her co-worker Morgan from the wreckage and ends up with a traumatised pit bull, Caesar, who won’t leave her side.
But as the smoke clears, one question won’t go away: where is everyone?
Morgan just wants to get home. But home means finding her brother, Carter—and her brother has problems of his own.
Carter has one thought: his five-year-old daughter is four hundred miles away in Salt Lake City—and he is running out of time. No car. No signal. No plan. And a debt collector named Samson who isn’t about to forget what he’s owed.
Rosa knows a way through the city.
Welcome to the tunnels.
If you like characters that leap off the page, propulsive action, and a world that feels terrifyingly real, then you'll love bestselling author Sam J Fires's latest gripping thriller.
Fallout is the first book in the EMP Collapse series—a gripping post-apocalyptic EMP survival thriller about the lengths a parent will go to reach their child, and the strangers who become family when everything falls apart.
Perfect for fans of Kyla Stone, William Forstchen, and A.G. Riddle.
Buy it today and find out how far you'd go when the lights go out.
An EMP strike plunges Las Vegas into darkness.
Cars die. Phones go silent. Emergency services vanish.
In one of the most artificial cities on earth, survival becomes the only thing that matters.
Rosa has always lived between two worlds. By day, she works at one of Vegas’s most exclusive golf clubs. By night, she disappears into the storm tunnels beneath the Strip, where a hidden community survives on scraps and silence.
When a helicopter crashes into the club and no help comes, Rosa does the one thing she never does—she stays. She pulls her co-worker Morgan from the wreckage and ends up with a traumatised pit bull, Caesar, who won’t leave her side.
But as the smoke clears, one question won’t go away: where is everyone?
Morgan just wants to get home. But home means finding her brother, Carter—and her brother has problems of his own.
Carter has one thought: his five-year-old daughter is four hundred miles away in Salt Lake City—and he is running out of time. No car. No signal. No plan. And a debt collector named Samson who isn’t about to forget what he’s owed.
Rosa knows a way through the city.
Welcome to the tunnels.
If you like characters that leap off the page, propulsive action, and a world that feels terrifyingly real, then you'll love bestselling author Sam J Fires's latest gripping thriller.
Fallout is the first book in the EMP Collapse series—a gripping post-apocalyptic EMP survival thriller about the lengths a parent will go to reach their child, and the strangers who become family when everything falls apart.
Perfect for fans of Kyla Stone, William Forstchen, and A.G. Riddle.
Buy it today and find out how far you'd go when the lights go out.
Underground.
Dangerous.
The only option left.
Meet The Author
Sam Fires is the penname of #1 bestselling author of thrilling post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction.
Sam lives in an urban jungle in the northeast of England with her two beautiful sons and an exceptionally noisy Bengal cat. Constantly dreaming about end-of-the-world scenarios and how she can plunge her characters into impossible situations, she can only hope they will somehow figure their way to safety. Sam’s characters are imperfect, brave, but able to endure the direst predicaments. A person who would hate to have to survive the elements, Sam wouldn’t last five minutes in one of her own stories.
Before picking up a pen, Sam worked as an attorney for many years - she still does - but her dream is to put the law behind her and work full time as an author.
Sam lives in an urban jungle in the northeast of England with her two beautiful sons and an exceptionally noisy Bengal cat. Constantly dreaming about end-of-the-world scenarios and how she can plunge her characters into impossible situations, she can only hope they will somehow figure their way to safety. Sam’s characters are imperfect, brave, but able to endure the direst predicaments. A person who would hate to have to survive the elements, Sam wouldn’t last five minutes in one of her own stories.
Before picking up a pen, Sam worked as an attorney for many years - she still does - but her dream is to put the law behind her and work full time as an author.
My Review
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Is the first full length book in the new (EMP Collapse) series by Author SAM J FIRES. Told in multiple Pov's. (Rosa, Morgan, Carter)
To get an ARC for the first time from this author was a huge big deal, I've nearly read all of this authors books and have loved each and every one of them, so a few squeals later and after composing myself I dived right in that very same day..
With multiple POV's this book gives it that unique feeling of diversity within a world that changed so rapidly, without any warning whatsoever and the way each and everyone of them had to step up and adapt to a changing world kept me glued to the pages.
We're first introduced to Rosa and Morgan, co-workers on the same shift in a 5 star country club in Vegas, they weren't besties but Morgan was kind to her when she first started on the job. When out of the blue things started happening all at once, first the wifi, the power and the landline phones stopped working simultaneously, then a helicopter all but fell out of the sky landing on the clubs patio roof it's occupants dead, the only survivor was their dog which came out relatively unscathed.
Carter (Morgan's brother) three months ago when a judge ruled against him in regards to his daughter being better off without him, had tried to get his life back on track, go to meetings, stay off the pills and did nearly everything that was required of getting his daughter back. In the office that day when the power went out and the generators didn't click in immediately he felt something was off, the hum in the air didn't sound right. The internet, networks and machinery stopped working, looking out the window all cars were stalled in their places unable to move. Accidents, panic, death.
Getting to his sister Morgan was his first priority, then his daughter who was hours away staying with his parents.
Even though things had escalated rapidly with looting and danger on every corner, Carter's past was catching up to him and a debt he owed didn't just go away in what he assumes is an EMP and a changed world.
My favourite character was Rosa, homeless, streetsmart she kept the rag tag group as safe as she could, but some things were out of her hands and death was bound to occur and touch their group leaving a profound impact on her especially, she was a soft soul, caring about those around her, but when it came to survival she was tough and stepped up when it mattered the most.
Such a unique, unputdownable, story which has been craving that next book which I can't wait to read...
