Hardcover |304 pages

From the author ofCold Storagecomes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair ofUnder the DomeorProject Hail Mary, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated Midwestern family.

Forget a good nights sleep. Aurora is epic, but personal and poignant, horrifying and darkly funny, and flat-out suspenseful.Linwood Barclay,New York Timesbestselling author ofFind You First

In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son.

Then the lights go outnot just in Aurora but across the globe.A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere.Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood.

Across the country lives Aubreys estranged brother, Thom.A fantastically wealthy, neurotically over-prepared Silicon Valley CEO, he plans to ride out the crisis in a gilded desert bunker he built for maximum comfort and security.

But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of several long-overdue reckoningswhich not everyone will survive . . .

Aurorais suspenseful storytellingboth large scale and smallat its finest.