John’s New Place — The Great Wash Out, Book 1

John’s New Place

The Great Wash Out · Book One

The water isn’t coming from the lake. It’s rising from beneath the town.

Civil engineer John Hollie has barely settled into his new home on the shores of Lake Erie when water begins appearing where it shouldn’t. There has been no storm, yet streets disappear, foundations shift, and the lake climbs higher by the hour.

John recognizes the signs of structural failure before anyone else. This isn’t ordinary flooding. The ground itself is changing—and the disaster is spreading far beyond one lakeside town.

As homes go under and official reassurances prove fatally wrong, John is forced to abandon the life he came to rebuild. Keeping his neighbors alive will require every skill he possesses, but each mile toward higher ground exposes another disturbing question:

Who knew the Great Wash Out was coming—and why weren’t people warned?

John wanted a new place. What he finds is the beginning of an entirely new world.

• An impossible inland flood consuming communities from beneath the ground
• A capable, reluctant hero relying on engineering, instinct, and determination
• Survival, government secrets, human resilience, and the first communities of a changed world

From USA Today bestselling author A. R. Shaw comes the first book in The Great Wash Out, a post-apocalyptic disaster series about ordinary people confronting an extraordinary catastrophe—and deciding what is worth rebuilding.