Ike Honeycutt
Ike Honeycutt writes character-driven survival fiction about ordinary families facing extraordinary collapse. His novels explore what happens after the grid goes down — not just to society, but inside a home.A lifelong reader of survival and post-apocalyptic fiction, he grew up on Lucifer’s Hammer, On the Beach, and Station Eleven. He’s drawn to stories about the thin line between order and chaos — and what it takes to keep a family together when that line disappears.He is the author of The Midwest Collapse Series,beginning with The Things We Take.When not writing, Ike spends his time outdoors with his family, chasing the small skills and routines that make life feel a little more durable.He lives in the Midwest.
The Things We Take
The explosive debut of The Midwest Collapse Series.
Grid down.Society collapsing.One family on the run.—A catastrophic solar storm — stronger than any EMP — destroys the power grid and plunges the Midwest into chaos. Overnight, modern life vanishes.Ben Mercer is no hero — just a father haunted by his past. Now he, his wife Emily, and their young daughters Grace and Eve must fight to survive as hunger spreads faster than hope and their suburban neighborhood descends into violence.Every mile in search of safety forces impossible choices — and proves that survival is about more than supplies or prepper know-how. It’s about love, memory, and the fragile bonds that hold a family together when everything else falls apart.The Things We Take ignites The Midwest Collapse Series — a gripping, deeply human story of family, survival, and resilience in a collapsing world, perfect for fans of One Second After, Edge of Collapse, and Station Eleven.
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The Things We Hide
Book 2 of The Midwest Collapse Series.
Winter closing in.Old demons unravel.A new threat rising beyond the farm.—Ben, Grace, and Eve reach the Mercer farm broken from the road.Winter hits hard, and grief drags Ben toward old habits he swore he’d left behind.A single violent mistake ignites a feud with a neighboring family, and as hunger and cold deepen, a rising threat beyond the farm forces a tense alliance.To keep his daughters safe, Ben must face the darkness inside him… before it takes everything he has left.
The Things We Become
Book 3 of The Midwest Collapse Series.
Trauma doesn't fade.Memory does.Some losses can't be survived twice.—Ben Mercer and his daughters survived a brutal winter on their family farm, enduring the siege, the cold, and the grief that followed.Months after a solar flare destroyed the power grid, spring brings calmer days — but the past is slipping away. What his daughters remember grows hazier by the week. What they’ve forgotten may never come back.Before it’s too late, Ben makes a desperate choice that takes him into the heart of the State recovery program — and toward the dangerous machinery rebuilding the world.What he finds there could return a piece of what his daughters have lost.Or cost him everything.The Things We Become continues The Midwest Collapse Series — a story of family, survival, and what memory costs in a broken world.
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Ike Honeycutt
Author of The Midwest Collapse Series.
Ike Honeycutt writes character-driven survival fiction about ordinary families facing extraordinary collapse. His novels explore what happens after the grid goes down — not just to society, but inside a home.A lifelong reader of survival and post-apocalyptic fiction, he grew up on Lucifer’s Hammer, On the Beach, and Station Eleven. He’s drawn to stories about the thin line between order and chaos — and what it takes to keep a family together when that line disappears.He is the author of The Midwest Collapse Series, beginning with The Things We Take and continuing in The Things We Hide.When he’s not writing, Ike spends his time outdoors with his family, chasing the small skills and routines that make life feel a little more durable.He lives in the Midwest.