Richard Cox 
House of the Rising Sun 

Both a frightening apocalyptic story set in the southern United States and a character-focused, deeply moving literary thriller.What would happen if technology all over the world suddenly stopped working? When a strange new star appears in the sky, human life instantly grinds to a halt. Across the world, anything and everything electronic stops working completely. At first, the event seems like a bizarre miracle to Seth Blackit interrupts his suicide attempt and erases gambling debt that threatened to destroy his family. But when Seth and his wife, Natalie, realize the electricity isnt coming back on, that their the food supplies wont last, they begin to wonder how they and their two sons will survive. Meanwhile, screenwriter Thomas Phillipsan old friend of Natalie’shas just picked up Skylar Stover, star of his new movie, at the airport when his phone goes dead and planes begin to fall from the sky.Thomas has just completed a script about a similar electromagnetic event that ended the world. Now, hes one of the few who recognizes whats happening and where it will lead. When Thomas and Skylar decide to rescue Natalie and Seth, the unwilling group must attempt to survive together as the world falls apart. They try to hide in Thomass home and avoid desperate neighbors, but fear they’ll soon be roaming the streets with starving refugees and angry vigilantes intent on forming new governments. It’s all they can do to hold on to each other and their humanity. Yet all the while, unbeknownst to them, Aiden Christophera bitter and malignant man leveraging a crumbling society to live out his darkest, most amoral fantasiesis fighting to survive as well. And hes on a collision course with Thomas, Skylar, and the Black family . . .