Scorched Noon
When a continent-wide heat crisis locks North America into weeks of lethal temperatures, the grid fails, water disappears, cities ignite, and the old order collapses inside the furnace. Former city energy auditor Elliot Vernon uses his knowledge of power, fire suppression, and emergency logistics to keep a fractured group alive in Phoenix. Every apparent shelter becomes another trap, and every answer reveals a worse threat waiting beyond it. The novel follows a relentless chain of survival, betrayal, and hard-won reversals under a sun that has become the deadliest force on earth.
Synopsis
When a continent-wide heat crisis locks North America into weeks of lethal temperatures, the grid fails, water disappears, cities ignite, and the old order collapses inside the furnace. Former city energy auditor Elliot Vernon uses his knowledge of power, fire suppression, and emergency logistics to keep a fractured group alive in Phoenix. Every apparent shelter becomes another trap, and every answer reveals a worse threat waiting beyond it. The novel follows a relentless chain of survival, betrayal, and hard-won reversals under a sun that has become the deadliest force on earth.