2026 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Honorable Mention!

Tense, mysterious, and character-driven, Fallout in Georgia follows one woman’s harrowing journey through an irradiated swamp while she confronts the ghosts of her past.

Secrets have a way of surfacing in an apocalypse.
Ellena Reed, stripped of her EMT license, has spent the last few months living with the ghosts of her marriage and past failures. Jax Mercer is on the run—though from whom, he won’t say.

They’re strangers in a campground until an incoming missile alert forces them into an uneasy alliance. It confirms what they feared: the United States has started World War III—and there will be no winners. Ellena thinks she has nothing left to lose except her strained relationship with her stepsister, but she’s dead wrong: the irradiated Okefenokee swamp holds terrors that could kill them all.

Ellena and Jax seek shelter in a fellow camper’s Airstream trailer, but with five people and a dog crammed into a trailer made for two, tempers rise and friendships fray. As brutal weather, starving alligators, and medical emergencies threaten the group’s safety, they decide to leave the Airstream’s safety to travel north through the swamp. Their only hope is to find Jax’s fallout shelter—if it exists at all.

But the swamp isn’t about to let them go easily. Ellena must make impossible survival choices as she battles danger at every turn.