Eleven hundred acres of open country. Zero electricity. The hunting grounds are open.
At 2:14 p.m., a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse strikes Red Ridge Wildlife Park, instantly killing every engine, radio, and cell phone.
Worse than the darkness is the silence that follows. The three layers of high-voltage security fencing separating four hundred tourists from the world's most efficient apex predators have gone completely dead. The magnetic gates are wide open.
Grieving father Eli Mercer came to the drive-through safari to give his children a normal weekend. Now, they are trapped inside a dead vehicle in the heart of the lion zone. With the afternoon heat rising and the beasts realizing the invisible barriers are gone, Eli must team up with a sharp-witted senior keeper to guide a fragile group of survivors toward an underground concrete bunker.
But between the stalled traffic and safety lie deep wetlands teeming with hungry reptiles, terrified stampeding herds, and a pack of nocturnal hunters waiting for the sun to go down.
In the darkest night of their lives, the rules of civilization no longer apply. The grid is dead, the cages are gone, and humans are no longer at the top of the food chain.
