Borrowed World Books in Order

When the Lightspeed wireless grid suddenly fails, technician Josie and her team are stranded at an aid center that quickly turns deadly. Their desperate journey toward Jim Powell’s valley brings news of ruthless new players moving into the power vacuum.

With The Reset Roadhouse thriving and power on the horizon thanks to President Walter Lightspeed, Jim’s town starts to believe normal life might return. As promises of electricity spread, old questions about weapons, control, and who really runs things flare back up.

Jim Powell has learned that hiding on his mountain only blinds him to threats. In this later Borrowed World novel, he opens a rough bar and trading post that doubles as an intelligence hub, just as national upheaval looms again.

Branded an insurgent after striking back at the system, Jim fakes his own death and disappears into the mountains. Resurgent follows his return from exile as he quietly hunts the neighbors and officials who put his family in the crosshairs.

Convinced his presence endangers everyone he loves, Jim hits the road with his friend Lloyd to scout a fallback refuge. Their uneasy journey forces them to confront the violence they’ve committed and the impossible hope of ever finding peace.

A ruthless security boss maimed in an earlier conflict wants revenge and puts a bounty on Jim Powell’s head. Flyers promising food and ammunition turn desperate neighbors into hunters, and Jim’s quiet valley becomes a trap packed with informants.

Months into the collapse, lights begin to flicker back to life as a new government plan to restore power rolls out. Switched On asks whether Jim’s community is willing to trade privacy and autonomy for electricity and a return to normalcy.

Alice Watkins finally reaches home after a brutal overland journey, only to find her once-quiet community tearing itself apart. Numb from trauma and frighteningly good at violence, she has to decide what kind of person survival has turned her into.

Jim’s remote farm was supposed to be a safe haven, prepared for life without fuel or grid power. When another armed group discovers the valley’s advantages, the Powells and their neighbors must defend their hard-won refuge or lose everything.

The country slides toward anarchy while Jim tries to fortify his homestead. Elsewhere, his coworkers Gary and Alice face their own nightmares—Gary returning to a family under siege, Alice waking chained in a stranger’s basement with a killer nearby.

Stranded 500 miles from home after coordinated attacks wreck America’s infrastructure, prepper Jim Powell must walk across a collapsing Virginia with a handful of coworkers. Every mile home means new threats, scarce supplies, and choices he never imagined making.

Only days after the initial attacks, the country has already descended into chaos. Jim fights to push closer to home while his wife Ellen defends their valley from newly released convicts and a predator determined to burn neighbors out of their houses.