The Road to Hidden Acres (The Hidden Acres series Book 1) by Kristal Fox

If it all fell apart tomorrow, what would you do to survive?Marcus Adair was marking time as a bartender in Cincinnati, Ohio. Then the Omega virus swept across the face of the world leaving a catastrophic death toll in its wake. One of the rare few to survive the plague, if only barely, Marcus finds a world irrevocably altered and wholly unrecognizable. The electric grid is gone. Stores and banks are just a memory.

Gas has become a precious and ever diminishing commodity.With his family dead or lost to the breakdown in communication systems, Marcus needs a purpose, a goal, a reason to survive. His thinks of Hidden Acres, the old family farm tucked away in western Indiana. It is a place of fond childhood memories filled with golden, summertime adventures. It may also be the last place where he has family. With nothing to lose, he packs his few worldly possessions into his old backpack and starts the long trek across the remains of the American heartland.Can he get there safely?

Will he find family if he makes it that far or merely the ghosts of what once was? This is the story of Marcus's journey and the people he meets along the way, who are each just trying in their own way to survive.This is the first book in the Hidden Acres series. Book 2 is "Ashes to Ashes", followed by "When the First Bird Sings". The fourth and final book of the series will be published in 2027.