Lou smiled. “Colt is keeping her busy. Alan has to stay after them to get their work done. Young love is so grand to watch.”
Granny looked at Lou wiping Bill’s brow for the tenth time. “Old love ain’t bad either.”
Rick said, “I’ll bet Greta will be begging to bring Colt’s family down here to the bunker.”
Tom said. “I think we’ll need to move everyone to the bunker this winter. It will be impossible to cut enough wood to heat the cabins, and the smoke from a fire would pollute our lungs at the cave. The cave must be a last resort. I asked our wood-cutting team to stock up on wood at the cave and here at the ranch. It’s already colder than a well digger’s ass out there. Today’s heatwave at forty degrees was an anomaly. The pond has frozen over several times, and the wind cuts like a knife. We’ll have a foot of snow any day.”
Jackie said, “That heatwave probably saved your asses. If you’d came out of that water a day earlier, you’d have frozen to death before we brought you back to the bunker.”
Tom’s eyes grew, and he looked around the room. “I know.”
Granny B said, “Those eighty-inch TVs and movies will help with the boredom, and I’ve had the ladies dust off all of your grandpa’s board games. I also have told our cooks to start a crash program to develop tasty rabbit and corn recipes. We'll run out of our survival supplies by the end of winter, if we don’t use them sparingly.”
Tom’s head snapped around to his grandmother. “We had enough food to last the family for three years. Crap!”
Granny B said, “Grandpa never thought we’d take on so many people. Tom, you’ve done a great job leading us. Think about what Jerry, Bill, and Kate have brought to us in innovation, and how many times they have helped save our butts. We’ll survive, even if we have to eat rabbit and cornbread every day until the crops come in in the summer and fall.”
Kate had been quiet. “We’ve survived thanks to Tom’s leadership, Granny’s survival knowledge, and the addition of good people with skills that complement our base crew’s knowledge. We have all winter to decide what direction to go in in the future, and plenty of time to make plans. I predict this will be a long boring winter, and that’s exactly what our worn-out team needs.”
Tom nodded. “I’ll drink to that.”
Rick looked Sam in the eyes. “We have to quickly find out who the spies are and who tried to kill you and Kate up at the pond.”
Tom pondered what to say then said, “I’ll think up some kind of trap. We’ll catch them. I’ll shoot them in the back of the head. Piece of cake.”
Everyone’s eyes snapped toward Tom, who just had a wicked grin on his face. Sam gulped and looked down at her lap.
The End
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Prepper’s Collapse
Book 3 - Prepper’s Betrayal should be published by the middle of spring 2021,
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Books by AJ Newman
Prepper’s Apocalypse
Prepper’s Apocalypse
Prepper’s Collapse
Prepper’s Betrayal - (mid-spring 2021)
John Logan Mysteries
The Human Syndrome
Extinction Level Event
Extinction
Immune: The Hunted
War Dogs
Heading Home
No One Left Behind
Amazon Warriors
EMP:
Perfect Storm
Chaos in the Storm
Cole’s Saga series:
Cole’s Saga
FEMA WARS
American Apocalypse:
American Survivor
Descent into Darkness
Reign of Darkness
Rising from the Apocalypse
After the Solar Flare:
Alone in the Apocalypse
Adventures in the Apocalypse
Alien Apocalypse:
The Virus
Surviving
A Family’s Apocalypse Series:
Cities on Fire
Family Survival
The Day America Died:
New Beginnings
Old Enemies
Frozen Apocalypse
The Adventures of Jon Harris:
Surviving
Hell in the Homeland
Tyranny in the Homeland
Revenge in the Homeland
Apocalypse in the Homeland
Jon Returns
AJ Newman and Mack Norman
Rogue’s Apocalypse:
Rogues Origin
Rogues Rising
Rogues Journey
A Samantha Jones Murder Mystery:
Where the Girls Are Buried
Who Killed the Girls?
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About the Author
AJ Newman is the author of 36 science fiction and mystery novels plus 9 audiobooks that have been published on Amazon and Audible. He was born and raised in a small town in the western part of Kentucky. His Dad taught him how to handle guns very early in life, and he and his best friend Mike spent summers shooting .22 rifles and fishing.
Reading is his passion, and he read every book he could get his hands on. He fell in love with science fiction. He graduated from USI with a degree in Chemistry. He made a career working in manufacturing and logistics, but he always fancied himself as an author.
AJ served six years in the Army National Guard in an armored unit and spent six years performing every function on M48 and M60 army tanks. This gave him great respect for our veterans who lay their lives on the line to protect our country and freedoms.
AJ currently resides in Henderson, Kentucky, with his wife
