The Last Oilman, Deep in the Ashes - Book 1

When a precisely engineered explosion kills one of his men, veteran oilman Cal Bridger knows it was no accident. The strangers who recently inspected his property never intended to purchase it. They came to study its wells, water, generators—and the people who would run toward the fire.

As communications fail and counterfeit government orders spread across Texas, Cal discovers that his isolated field has been marked as a strategic fuel anchor. The enemy has mapped its vulnerabilities, targeted its essential workers, and prepared to seize everything required to keep an invading army moving.

Cal trusts manual valves, paper maps, old machinery, and the hard people who know how to keep them working. But defending the field will force him to rely on Tess, the daughter he drove away—and confront the failures that divided them long before the first enemy column crossed onto Texas soil.

Gritty, cinematic, and fiercely Texan, The Last Oilman launches Deep in the Ashes, a post-apocalyptic survival series about the people who keep a country alive after its systems—and its defenses—begin to fall.