When the grid fails, getting home is only the beginning. — Martin is an average guy, working in Boston when the power grid fails. Phones fail. Roads gridlock with people trying to get home. Martin's Plan B was to walk the fifty miles home to New Hampshire, though he was not really prepared. He would have to improvise along the way. His Plan B would be further revised to include an acquaintance, Susan, suddenly homeless due to a house fire. As a faithfully married man, traveling with an attractive young woman makes a challenging circumstance all the more awkward. Through hardships, criminals, and government confusion, they must learn to rely on each other.
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Society does not collapse into instant mayhem. Almost everyone assumes “normal” will return soon. Martin suspects it won't. Among the city refugees, tempers flare and troubles develop. Opportunistic criminals ramp up, and the government tries to "manage" things in obtuse and obstructive ways.

This is Book One the first of a five-part series. It is a realistic look at getting home amid the social paralysis of a suddenly grid-down world. The remainder of the series looks at how a small community tries to cope with the lack of supplies, the isolation and defending themselves from armed gangs.

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Comments from readers:

"The kind of story you could have a non-prepper read and help them to understand the potential for our so-called civilized society, to become un-civilized in a very short time."

“I love that it's regular people just tying to get home and yes as others have said its VERY realistic.”

"What I liked best was how real the characters were. They did not come across as stereotypes or as perfect people: they simply came across as somebody you might meet on any day of the week."

“Not your typical prepper story…The characters are truly believable.”

“No gung-ho, prepper or military Rambo. I liked the simple average people.”

Author's Notes: Plan B: Revised is deliberately set with realistic people facing challenging times. The characters are not perfect preppers or super-skilled ex-military types with the ideal answer for every occasion. If that's the sort of story you like, you should probably spare yourself the disappointment. Real people in the midst of a predicament have to make quick decisions on limited information. Such choices are seldom perfect, yet somehow, average people manage to survive.

Book 1 is a getting home story but more about two people enduring difficulties and inadvertently sparking deeper feelings. The focus of Book 1 is not so much on firefights amid instant mayhem as it is about people trying to cope. The rest of the books in the series deal with attacks by gangs, murder, privation and betrayal in a grid-down world.