What Would You Do If the Power Went Out—and Didn’t Come Back?
What happens when a power outage becomes something much bigger?
The Miles Away Series by H.R. Cates is realistic grid-down survival fiction about ordinary families suddenly forced to live without electricity, running water, reliable communication, transportation, and the modern conveniences they once took for granted.
Rather than focusing on superheroes or highly trained survivalists, the series explores a much more personal question: How would ordinary people actually survive a long-term power grid failure?
The stories follow one family separated by hundreds of miles when the grid goes down. While one woman struggles to make the long journey home to Texas, the family she left behind must learn how to live without electricity and running water as their small Texas community begins adapting to an entirely different way of life.
The Miles Away Series combines grid-down survival, family preparedness, long-term power outage scenarios, survival skills, community, and self-reliance with one central theme: when everything familiar disappears, people have to rediscover what they are capable of doing for themselves.
MILES AWAY — Book One
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| MILES AWAY Grid-Down Survival Novel – A Woman’s Journey Home After the Power Grid Fails |
How far would you walk to get home?
When the grid goes down, Joanie is stranded in Missouri—hundreds of miles from her family in Texas.
With normal transportation and communication disrupted, getting home becomes a journey she never expected to make. Joanie must travel on foot, finding food, water, shelter and safe places to rest while confronting the dangers and uncertainties that emerge as the effects of the grid failure spread.
Miles Away explores a realistic question many people rarely consider: What would you do if disaster struck while you were hundreds of miles from home?
This isn't the story of a trained survival expert. It's the story of an ordinary woman using determination, common sense, practical skills and the help of people she encounters along the way as she tries to accomplish one thing:
Get home to her family.
MILES APART — Book Two
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| MILES APART Grid-Down Survival Fiction – A Texas Family Surviving Without Electricity or Running Water |
Surviving the blackout is only the beginning.
Back in Texas, 13-year-old Jessie and his grandmother are facing the same grid failure from an entirely different perspective.
The lights are out. The water has stopped running. Communication with the outside world is disappearing—and Jessie's mother is hundreds of miles away.
As the outage stretches from hours into days, Jessie watches his small Texas town begin to change. Neighbors must depend upon one another, families rediscover forgotten skills, and everyday necessities that once required little thought suddenly become serious problems.
How do you cook without electricity? Where does water come from when the faucets stop working? What happens when stores can no longer simply restock their shelves?
Miles Apart looks at family and community survival during a prolonged grid-down emergency through the eyes of a 13-year-old boy learning that survival isn't always about having the perfect supplies. Sometimes it's about adapting, helping one another and figuring out how to make life work again.
MILES AHEAD — Book Three
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| MILES AHEAD Grid-Down Survival Novel – Family, Survival and the Journey Home During a Long-Term Power Outage |
The journey home isn't over yet.
Joanie is getting closer to Texas, but a grid-down America has become a very different place from the one she left behind.
As her journey continues, unexpected events change the course of the family's story and bring the realities faced on the road together with those unfolding back home.
Miles Ahead continues the family's struggle to reunite while exploring what happens when a crisis lasts long enough that people can no longer simply wait for life to return to normal.
It's a story about survival, family, resilience and people pulling together during a crisis—and about discovering that surviving a grid-down world may require rebuilding some of the skills and relationships modern life allowed us to forget.
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| Miles Away – Grid-Down Survival Audiobook by H.R. Cates |
Realistic Grid-Down Fiction Inspired by Real-Life Preparedness
The Miles Away Series is fiction, but many of the problems its characters face are very real: living without electricity, finding and conserving water, preparing food without modern appliances, communicating during an outage, traveling when transportation is disrupted, helping neighbors, and keeping a household functioning when the grid is down.
Those same questions are explored here on A Slice of Texas, where I write about practical power-outage preparedness and the old-fashioned skills that can help ordinary families become more self-reliant.
The novels ask, “What could happen?”
A Slice of Texas asks, “What can we do about it?”
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