The Warning Came Too Late

The lights went out. Her son was twelve miles away. And the only way to save him was to steal. Dana Keller runs inventory at a food warehouse outside Zanesville, Ohio. She’s the one who catches a coworker taking food for his family and tells him fear doesn’t give him the right. Then, after a week of strange outages, the whole building goes dark. Phones die. Cars die. Nothing comes back on. Her sixteen-year-old son is home alone. Her manager has the keys to the only truck that still runs, and he won’t let her take it. “Your son is one person, Dana.” So Dana makes the choice she swore she’d never make. She takes the truck and three thousand pounds of food meant for other people’s children, and she runs for her cousin’s farm forty miles north. But a stolen truck leaves a trail. Soon a note is waiting for them: WE KNOW WHERE THIS CAME FROM. Hungry strangers are mapping which farms have food. Her old boss wants his inventory back. The story of her theft grows every time it’s told. And someone is turning every desperate family in the county against the one woman who chose her own child over everyone else’s. The Warning Came Too Late is a gripping EMP survival thriller about a mother’s impossible choice and the price of keeping her family alive when the grid goes down. Scroll up and start reading today!