Kip Thorne is fifty-one, alone, and exactly where he wants to be: deep in the Alaskan wilderness outside Fairbanks, with his trusty Winchester rifle, his dog, and the silence he's spent twenty years earning. Then a flash splits the sky, the grid dies, and the modern world ends in a single heartbeat.
As Fairbanks descends into starvation and savagery, Thorne retreats deeper into the mountains. There he meets Ticasuk, a dying Native shaman who carries an ancient gift: a spiritual bond with the bears. In his final hours, Ticasuk passes that bond to Thorne, and everything changes.
A massive mama grizzly named Sela comes down from the high country with three cubs, and Thorne discovers he has something he never had before, even when the old world stood: a family. But the brutal new world will not leave them in peace.
When Thorne and his bears save a wilderness family from raiders, word spreads of the man who fights alongside grizzlies. They call him the Bear Lord.
Fairbanks Mayor Steve Wittimer, a cruel man nursing an old grudge, brands Thorne a murderer and his bears demons. He puts a bounty on all of them, the cubs included, and rallies a starving city to march north and exterminate them. Thorne's sister is trapped in Wittimer's camp. His adopted family is in the crosshairs.
And the only way to keep the ones he loves safe is to come down out of the mountains and end the man who hunts them.
From a desperate strike on a dying city to a final, devastating showdown where Thorne and the bears confront an armed Wittimer and his men on a bridge, EMP: Rise of the Bear Lord is a sweeping post-apocalyptic survival epic about loyalty, vengeance, grief, and the clean, fierce love between a man and the wild.
For readers who love wilderness survival thrillers, post-apocalyptic fiction, and unforgettable animal bonds, this is the legend of the Bear Lord, a story of justice in a lawless land that will stay with you long after the last page.
The cruel do not own the world. Not while the Bear Lord walks.
