Ashes

Fire From the Sky, Book 11

De: N.C. Reed

Narrado por: Lee Alan

Post-apocalyptic fiction by N.C. Reed.

Its Thanksgiving on the Sanders Farm.

Clayton Sanders and his collection of friends, family, and even a few strangers have managed to keep themselves moderately safe in a vicious new world, brought about by the most massive Coronal Mass Ejection ever seen or recorded. Anything electrical and not protected from the surge of power has been completely fried. Most cars won’t start, the electrical grid has crashed, people with pacemakers in their chests have dropped dead in their tracks, the list goes on and on of things and lives destroyed by an electrical storm that lasted only a few minutes but created a light show that lasted for days. Once the shock wore off, the violence began.

Calhoun County has seen rough times, in some ways much rougher than the other rural counties around them. The seat of the county government is a ghost town and the people who have survived three different waves of violence have moved on to what they hope will be greener pastures. Clay and his family have helped as many people as they can but have had to draw the line for now, as they struggle to ensure that their farm and ranch can produce enough food to help feed far more than themselves. Even with a good harvest, they face lean times before the next harvest can be brought in. Helping others has left them with shallow cupboards once more.

Still facing problems, the National Guard contingent is trying to restore order, and Greg Holloway has been appointed as the new Sheriff. He faces an uphill battle to reestablish not only law and order, but trust among the surviving citizens for their peace officers, the former officers not having done much to endear themselves to the public. But the Sanders clan and their extended family and friends are about to face a problem much larger than any criminals they’ve had to face. A killer is roaming the highways. A killer that cannot be seen and cannot be fought. Their only hope is to once again cut themselves off from the rest of the world and wait things out. If others will only allow them to.

Excerpt:

It was the day before Thanksgiving and the weather had turned colder, with what appeared to be rain on the horizon. "Perfect pneumonia weather", the older folks called it. Greg had decided to make a long patrol on both Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving trying to cover as much of the county as possible before the holiday. Tuesday had gone by without a hitch and Wednesday was well on the way to doing the same.

“I’m not complaining about anything being boring,” Amanda said as the Hummer sped along, “but-,”

“Shut up!” Gordy, Greg and Shane all said at once, startling her.

“Sorry,” she shrank down a bit in the rear passenger side seat. “Just saying”.

“When you say it, it screws everything up,” Gordy said from behind the wheel. “It’s uncanny”.

“But still true,” Shane nodded.

“How you guys making it back there”? Greg smiled at the antics around him as he checked on the MRAP following them. Stacey Pryor, Tandi Maseo, Heath Kelly, Janessa Haynes and Devon Knowles were riding there, Janessa taking a turn behind the wheel.

“We’re chopping in tall cotton as my grandma used to say,” Stacey replied with a chuckle. “Had to bust up a card game earlier, though".

“I’d rather we play cards than have trouble,” Greg laughed. “At this rate, we may make it home in-,”

Whatever Greg hoped to make it home for would remain forever unsaid as the windshield of the Hummer stared in six different places within the space of two seconds as bullets impacted all over the vehicle.

©2020 N.C. Reed (P)2021 Creative Texts Publishers, LLC

Enjoyable series

Don’t usually do more than stars, but have truly loved this series the characters interaction and value the day to day things not just the battles like to hear about how they plan on living beside the fighting push come to shove that’s what will take most of us out not planning for next year. Keep the series going this has become one of three that I try to keep up with I have over 350 audible and hundreds of other books and I think N C Reed books are some of the best.

love this story

another great installment in this engaging storyline. would highly recommend to anyone. hope you give it a try.

TV on in background in chapter 18

The story was great as always! The only thing that I didn’t like was that someone turned the TV on in the background for a couple minutes while Mr. Allen was recording in Chapter 18. Not a BIG deal because he’s an awesome narrator and it didn’t ruin the moment but it did take away from it a little. It’s definitely worth the credit though!

Awesome; BUT one major issue

A couple of the earlier books, I think the two most recent, had some small sections where the audio was not mixed correctly & one where the end of a chapter was simply clipped off.

I didn't mention these, because they weren't THAT bad; BUT in this book, Ashes, in Chapter 18 somewhere around the 16 minute mark, suddenly one can hear what I swear is a television playing in the narrator's background. I can tell you it's probably something like a sports show or sports news. Definitely something about football. It's not like it's way in the background. The level is almost the same as that of the Narrator, now making the book suddenly become a very difficult to listen. I hope this is fixed.

Ok. I went back & listened to this part again. The "background TV" audio comes in during minute 15 & disappears (for now) at 16:17. I hope that's it for the unwanted audio, because the rest of the book is superb.

I am at the end of the book now. It is an excellent story, a well-written & narrated book; & I REALLY like the notes from the author.

On to Book 12!

Great series

I have passed, many enjoyable hours, reading, and re-reading this series. Highly recommend,tell your friends.

Book 11 Delivers!

I've listened to all 11 books on Audible and have enjoyed them immensely. Tons of great characters and a very compelling storyline. I'm looking forward to many more. For those clamoring for another book quickly, please allow Mr. Reed to take the time to do it well and give us good value for each book. Too many authors are banging out a few chapters and calling them books. Good Job Mr. Reed. Good job indeed.

I need more. ASAP yet another highly entertaining

yet another highly entertaining book and well read. can't wait for book 12. get to work hoss!!

Good series.

Good story … as time goes on, it seems more possible. Not too hyper realistic, but some good takeaways overall.

So enjoyed this!!

Great series...looking forward to the next book. I sincerely hope there are many
more . Thanks!!

Another great book

He keeps it interesting and makes you want to keep reading. This one had a tough moral battle that I believe a lot would struggle with. Great book