Echo Recon

Mercer Ridge survived the collapse. Then they learned how to rebuild. Now they have to discover what the rest of the world has become.

Months after the Second Sun changed everything, life at Mercer Ridge is moving forward. Communications reach farther. Aircraft connect distant communities. Old alliances are growing stronger, and people who once measured success by surviving another day are beginning to look beyond the ridge again.

What they find is a country that hasn't been standing still.

Across the region, communities have survived in very different ways. Some are reconnecting. Some are trading. Some have built their own systems of order. And some have begun deciding what the future should look like for everyone around them.

When aerial reconnaissance reveals organized activity far from home, Captain Jack Hargrave and his team are sent to find out what's happening on the ground.

What begins as observation soon becomes something much more complicated. The people they encounter aren't simply enemies or allies. They are survivors with their own loyalties, their own fears, and their own ideas about what comes next.

And the farther the team travels from Mercer Ridge, the clearer one thing becomes:

Rebuilding the world may prove harder than surviving its collapse.

Echo Recon expands the Mercer Ridge story beyond the farm, blending reconnaissance, aviation, military operations, family, loyalty, and the uneasy relationships forming between communities that have learned to survive without one another.

The old world is gone. A new one is already taking shape.

The question is who gets to shape it.

Echo Recon is Book Three of the Mercer Ridge Series. Begin the story with The Black Net Protocol and continue with After the Second Sun.