Before the Frost

PREORDER • THE LAST SAFE COUNTY, BOOK FIVE

They fired first. Now they intend to control the truth.

A single gunshot has shattered Kettle Falls’ good summer. With one of their own fighting for her life and the district commander rewriting what happened at the gate, the settlement faces a new kind of siege. The roads are closing. Medicine is running low. And winter is coming.

Sarah Voss knows the truth will die in the valley unless someone carries it beyond the blockade. The old relay network may be their only chance to reach the surrounding settlements—but its abandoned tower lies across a mountain pass, and the Authority is already moving to silence it.

To reach it, Sarah must trust a man she barely knows, leave her children in a town under threat, and race the first hard frost into the high country.

Back in Kettle Falls, the harvest still has to come in, wounds must be tended, and anger threatens to turn resistance into war. Because the Authority has already fired once—and the next shot may not be an accident.

The truth has one road out. They must reach it before the frost.

Before the Frost is Book Five in The Last Safe County, a character-driven post-apocalyptic survival series about family, community, and the price of remaining free. The series is best read in order.