Gone Dark

Written by Amanda Panitch

A teen leads friends to safety after a nationwide power failure plunges the country into chaos.

3.7 Goodreads · 759 ratings

448 pages· 109,523 words· Est. 12 hour read· HL740L

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Zara, a seventeen-year-old who fled her father's survivalist compound, must now return to it after a malware attack cripples the nation's power. Leading her friends across a chaotic landscape, Zara confronts her past and the father she left behind. As they journey through a crumbling world, Zara's survival skills are tested, and she must decide if facing her past is worth the risk. Will she find salvation at the compound, or is she better off in the shadows of a powerless world?

From the publisher

Dry meets Hatchet in this thrilling tale of survival following a teen girl who must lead her friends across the country to the safety of her estranged father’s survivalist compound after a mass power failure leaves the country in chaos. When seventeen-year-old Zara escaped her father’s backwoods survivalist compound five years ago, she traded crossbows and skinning hides for electricity and video games…and tried to forget the tragedy that drove her away. Until a malware attack on the United States electrical grids cuts off the entire country’s power. In the wake of the disaster and the chaos that ensues, Zara is forced to call upon skills she thought she’d never use again–and her best bet to survive is to go back to the home she left behind. Drawing upon a resilience she didn’t know she had, Zara leads a growing group of friends on an epic journey across a crumbling country back to her father’s compound, where their only hope for salvation lies. But with every step she takes, Zara wonders if she truly has what it takes to face her father and the secrets of her past, or if she’d be better off hiding in the dark.

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