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The Irish End Game
The Irish End Game
Series · 10 books · 2001-2019
By
Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Books in series
#1
Free Falling
2001
When David and Sarah Woodson take a much-needed vacation with their ten-year old son, John, their intention is to find a relaxing, remote spot to take a break from the artificial stimulation of their busy world back in Jacksonville, Florida. What happens within hours of settling in to their rural, rustic little cottage in a far-flung spot on the coast of Ireland is an international incident that leaves the family stranded and dependent on themselves for their survival. Facing starvation, as well as looters and opportunists, they learn the hard way the important things in life. Can a family skilled only in modern day suburbia and corporate workplaces learn to survive when the world is flung back a hundred years? When there is no internet, no telephones, no electricity and no cars? And when every person near them is desperate to survive at any cost?
#2
Going Gone
2013
n Going Gone, Book 2 of the dystopian series, The Irish End Game, tragedy strikes the three Americans where they live in Ireland. Sarah Woodson is brutally taken—across the Irish Sea to the pastoral beauty of England’s Cotswold’s—and the horrors of a post-apocalyptic sex slave trade. Determined to escape her captors—including a monster who’s vowed never to let her leave England alive—and to survive the impossible journey of a thousand miles through the harsh Welsh wilderness, Sarah uses every resource she has to find her way home again. Going Gone is an adventure tale of heart-stopping proportion showing the resiliency of the human spirit and the unfathomable depths of a mother’s love.
#3
Heading Home
2013
What happens when the one thing you’ve been praying for turns out to be the one thing that will destroy you and everything you love? After two years of living and adjusting to life after the bomb, Sarah and her son John have discovered that happiness can trump grief and loss. Together they’ve created a life of fellowship and hard work, pride of self and community, good friendships and, for Sarah, love. But the moment a messenger comes to the camp with the news that the United States government is gathering up all of its stranded nationals to help them get home, is the moment their world begins to crumble. Who could guess that the one thing they’d prayed so fervently for would be the very thing that would destroy everything they’ve worked so hard to build?
#4
Blind Sided
2015
When the world comes crashing down around you, it’s important to believe in something… After four years of living in a post-apocalyptic world, one thing Mike and Sarah know is that nothing ever stays the same. Just when life had begun to settle down—and all their immediate needs met—a threat comes at them from a totally unexpected source. Not England or roaming bands of thugs, not the US or even the Middle East. This time it’s the land itself—the very bushes and trees of Ireland—that they’ll have to protect themselves from.
#5
Rising Tides
2015
The tides are definitely rising in Book 5 of the Irish End Games. This is the story of two desperate journeys to find lost loved ones culminating in a shocking discovery—one with the power to destroy all of Europe. Mike and Sarah, searching for both John and Gavin in every bungalow and hillock in Ireland in the midst of a mysterious world plague, instead find the stuff of every parent’s nightmares.
#6
Cold Comfort
2015
Some people were born to take advantage of a bad situation—like Sinead Branigan, who has found a way to create happiness for a nation of childless couples by stealing and selling the babies of post-apocalyptic Ireland. When Mike and Sarah return from their search for John and Gavin, they find their home and compound deserted and their friends and family inexplicably gone without an apparent struggle. Will they be able to piece together the mystery in time to find their people? Or, like so many other things they’ve adjusted to in Ireland after the bomb, will they be forced to accept a new kind of life—one tragically changed for generations to come?
#7
Never Never
2015
You’ll never know what your limits are… …until you reach them. After a second EMP destroys the fragile progress of post-apocalyptic Ireland, bringing the UK and Europe crashing to their knees beside her as well, Mike and Sarah know they need to get their people somewhere safe. And soon. Along the way they discover something that has been carved into them since the first EMP exploded over the Irish Sea—when the chips are down, you'll never believe what you're capable of…until it happens to you. Absolutely never never...
#8
Wit's End
2016
Mike Donovan sees himself as a reasonable man. It’s true he’s had to do some hard things in the five years since an EMP turned the lights out all over Ireland and the UK, but he’s always managed to keep his humanity. Until now. Until the day a singular threat comes crawling up to the drawbridge of Henredon Castle…a threat that attacks every moral or decent instinct Donovan ever had. How far will he go now to protect the people inside? Will he sacrifice the weak for the good of the whole? Will he turn his back on the love of his life? And can he do it in time to save any of them?
#12
End Game
2019
Some decisions can be the death of you. After ten years of a brutal apocalypse, Sarah Donovan doesn’t want much. Just a place where she can live where people aren’t trying to kill her. A place where she can raise her daughter and live without fear. Unfortunately, it's all a little more than any sane person should hope for. In the thrilling climax to the Irish End Game series, Mike and Sarah launch into the unforgiving North Atlantic in a retrofitted tramp steamer with five pregnant women, eleven children and fifteen desperate people in the determined hope of finding that place. Will they find their haven? If they do what will they have to sacrifice to get there? END GAME is a riveting thrill-ride of action, revenge, and heart-stopping bravery in the final chapter of one American woman’s life-defining battle with the unthinkable.
#1-3
The Irish End Game #1-3
2013
It's the first three books in the Irish End Game series that takes an average American family and puts them in the middle of a post-apocalyptic melt-down in a rural setting in Ireland. Free Falling is Book 1 and shows the family "when the bomb drops" and how they're able to learn what they need to do to survive. Book 2, Going Gone, continues their story when Sarah is brutally taken from the home she has created in Ireland and risks life, limb and much much more to return to her family. Book 3, Heading Home, tells the story of rescue finally coming—and how that turns into the biggest upheaval of all. The Irish End Game is a thrilling page-turner that will have you stocking your pantry for the apocalypse and wondering how well you really know your neighbors.
Author
Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Author · 80 books