Unstable Ground

A Post-apocalyptic Survival Thriller

By: Harley Tate

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The fault strikes back. The heartland rips wider. A family pushed to the breaking point.

Dr. Elijah Gentry slams his seismograph charts on the FEMA counter, voice cutting through the chaos as he warns the geologist: the next rupture is coming east—bridges failing, cities turning to quicksand in hours. No one is listening fast enough. He has to make them hear before the next wave buries everything.

Erin Mason shoves her terrified students through the shattered museum halls, Ethan burning with fever under her arm as gunshots crack below and looters close in. One wrong step and they’re cornered—or dead. With zoo animals loose on the streets and the only bridge left turning into a kill zone, she races forward, praying her family is still alive out there.

Will Mason hurls a jagged chunk of pavement at the armed teens circling his daughter’s stolen car, glass exploding as Cassidy floors it and they tear away—but every mile toward St. Louis brings fresh violence, dwindling fuel, and the growing rumble under the wheels that says the earth isn’t done.

With aftershocks ripping the Midwest apart and time running out, Will, Cassidy, and Erin must claw through looters, infection, and the planet’s fury itself to find each other before the next big one hits.

Unstable Ground is book two in a post-apocalyptic disaster thriller series following ordinary people struggling to survive when a massive earthquake rips through the heart of America.