A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse

If you knew the world was ending,what would you want your children to know about survival? What would you sacrifice to protect them? What secrets would you want to stay buried? For Olivia Sullivanthe summer of 2024was the beginning of the end. The news is constantly reporting on political upheavals and natural disastersfood and gas shortages are becoming more frequentand southern California is unbearably hot. Soon Olivia becomes obsessed with doomsday preppingspending hours on forums determined to protect her children from the coming apocalypse. Her husband and friends insist she’s being irrationalbut then Olivia is swept away in a flash flood that wiped out half of LA. Or that’s the story RosieBettieand Cassie were told. Twenty years laterthe sisters discover a box of their mother’s belongings that calls into question everything they’re father has told them about their motherincluding if she really died. Reeling from their father’s betrayal the family returns to California determined to uncover Olivia’s true fate. Confronted by a world unlike anything they’ve ever knownwhere no one quite seems to be telling the truth and danger hangs heavy in the airthe Sullivan triplets find themselves struggling with questions about the father who raised them and the mother who may have abandoned themall while trying to hold onto the only constant in their lives–each other.