Welcome to post-nuclear Arizona. Try to stay alive. College student Jenn Jansen just wants to stay out of World War Three. But today, she'll have to face it head-on. On the morning of April 28, 2062, a mysterious power outage leaves Jenn and the town of Flagstaff, Arizona, in the dark and isolated form the outside world. Then five mushroom clouds appear on the horizon, rising above Jenn’s home city of Phoenix. Panic, fear, and desperation grip Flagstaff and pit its war-weary citizens against the police and against each other. Torn between finding her family in Phoenix and helping her friends in Flagstaff, Jenn is forced to confront the brutal realities of this new, unforgiving world. Desolation is a near-future post-apocalyptic survival thriller with a female lead. It's the first book in David Lucin's Desolation series.