Covenant Mountain

A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller

By: Matt Hill

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

One pulse. Every light on earth goes out and doesn't come back.

Nathan is twenty-eight years old and watching his town consume itself within hours of the grid going dark. He takes his grandfather's old lever gun and a .45, a survival loadout pack he spent years building, and heads for the only place that makes sense. Jacqui is twenty-seven, Orthodox Christian, and has lost everything she loves in a single morning. She takes her father's gear and her unbreakable faith and makes the same call.

They've never met. They're climbing opposite sides of the same mountain.

What they find at the top changes everything.

A remote alpine lake. Granite walls. Cold so clean it hurts to breathe. They start as wary strangers and become something neither expected....hunting deer and grouse, processing game, building shelter from timber and stone and sheer determination, foraging plants that heal and feed, learning to read the mountain the way their ancestors once read everything. The life they carve out of the wilderness is hard and honest and (against all reason) quietly, achingly beautiful. A fire every night. Food they made themselves. A faith that deepens in the silence. A love that nobody planned.

Then the wolves start circling.

Then the grizzly comes down off the ridge.

Then the people with the silver stars come up from the valley.

Covenant Mountain is the story of two people who found something rare and worth dying for...and of everything the world sends against them to take it away.

• Survival rendered without compromise — from processing a downed deer in a mountain snowstorm to building fire, curing meat, and keeping each other alive through a Rocky Mountain winter with nothing but skill and will
• A love story that earns every single moment — built on distrust, respect, shared hardship, and a spiritual depth that gives it genuine weight
• Wolves, a grizzly, and something far worse — the mountain's dangers are vivid and physical, but the human evil that climbs toward them from the valley is the threat that will define the series
• Orthodox Christianity as a living, breathing way of seeing — ancient faith that shapes how the story understands beauty, suffering, and what makes a life worth fighting for
• A final page that will not let you go

For readers who want the apocalypse real and the humanity realer with a faith-based element, Covenant Mountain delivers.

good read

Virtual voice was better. someone need to proof listen, some obvious pronunciation errors. story was good, a little too thick with the religious overtones. Some is ok but this became a focus and detracted from the story. character development was good.