The prologue to the bestselling novel Through Many Fires. Terrorists smuggle a nuclear bomb into Washington D.C. and detonate it during the State of the Union Address. Army veteran and congressional staffer Caden Westmore is in nearby Bethesda and watches as a mushroom cloud grows over the capital. The next day, as he drives away from the still burning city, he learns that another city has been destroyed and then another. America is under siege. Panic ensues and society starts to unravel.

Through Many Fires

Through Many Fires by Kyle Pratt

Justin starts one morning as a respected businessman and ends the day a fugitive wanted by every power in the known universe.  Fleeing with his 'sister' Mara and Naomi, a mysterious woman from Earth Empire, their only hope of refuge is with the Titans, genetically enhanced soldiers who rebelled, and murdered millions in the Titanomachy War.  Hunted, even as they hunt for the Titans, the three companions slowly uncover the truth that will change the future and rewrite history.  

Titan Encounter is Kyle Pratt’s debut science fiction space adventure.  He is also the author of Final Duty - The Speculative Fiction Anthology and the post-apocalyptic thriller Through Many Fires.  

Titan Encounter

Titan Encounter by Kyle Pratt

Twenty years after the death of her father during the Battle of Altair, Lieutenant Amy Palmer returns to the system as an officer aboard the reconnaissance ship Mirage.  Almost immediately disaster strikes and Amy, along with the crew of the Mirage, must face the possibility of performing their final duties.  Final Duty is a novella set in the same universe as the other two stories in this anthology.
I wrote most of it while serving on the U.S.S. Missouri (BB-63) during the Gulf War.  I’m certain writing this story while living in the confined grayness of a navy ship during battle gave it an added sense of realism.  While writing it I tried to take current military procedures and imagine them in a future spacefaring navy.  At nearly 16,000 words, Final Duty is the longest story in this collection.

Final Duty

Final Duty by Kyle Pratt

The exciting saga of Major Caden Westmore continues. In Through Many Fires, Strengthen What Remains, book 1, nuclear terrorism destroyed six American cities. 

In this, the second book, A Time to Endure, the nation’s economy teeters on the verge of collapse. The dollar plunges, inflation runs rampant, and the next civil war threatens to decimate the wounded country. In the face of tyranny, panic, and growing hunger, Caden struggles to keep his family and town together and alive, but how can he when the nation is collapsing around them?

A Time to Endure

A Time To Endure by Kyle Pratt

Braving the Storms, is the third book of the Strengthen What Remains series.  

In the first book, Through Many Fires, nuclear terrorism strikes the nation’s capital and six other American cities. In the second book, A Time to Endure, society continues to unravel, and civil war threatens the divided and economically-crippled land.

Now a new and even more lethal problem emerges. A swift and deadly flu epidemic sweeps out of overcrowded FEMA camps and strikes the nation with horrific results. Caden Westmore struggles to keep his family and community safe, while others use the plague to advance their own military and political agendas. Caden must succeed, but how can he, when both the epidemic and chaos attack his hometown and family?

Braving the Storms

Braving The Storms by Kyle Pratt

Simon Whistler of the Rocking Self-Publishing Podcast speaks with speculative fiction and action adventure author Kyle Pratt about his journey from newbie to bestselling author, his popular post-apocalyptic series Strengthen What Remains, and the value of writers’ critique groups.

Kyle Pratt On RSP

Police officer Peter Westmore is helping with the evacuation of Seattle when terrorists explode a nuclear bomb. In the novel A Time to Endure we glimpse the end of Peter’s life. In that novel his brother Caden, on a mission to destroy gangs and terrorists living on the fringe of the Seattle blast zone, goes to his older brother’s abandoned home and discovers Peter’s body. 

Nightmare in Slow Motion

Five cities had already been decimated by nuclear terrorism when Trevor Westmore sets out on a mission to bring Sue, his pregnant daughter-in-law, back to the relative safety of the family farm. He also hopes to find his daughter Lisa and bring her home. But, almost immediately upon finding Sue, in the suburbs of Seattle, terrorists detonate another nuclear bomb and the two must flee amid the chaos and fallout.

The Long Way Home

This combination boxset includes two stories from the Strengthen What Remains series, the novella, A Long Way Home, and the novelette, Nightmare in Slow Motion, over 32,000 words in total.

In the three full-length novels of the series we glimpse the life of Caden’s brother Peter. In the 13,000 word novelette, Nightmare in Slow Motion, we see Peter helping with the evacuation of Seattle when terrorists explode a nuclear bomb. This is the story of Peter’s final mission.

In the 20,000 word novella, The Long Way Home, five cities have already been decimated by nuclear terrorism. But it is then when Trevor Westmore must set out on a mission to bring Sue, his pregnant daughter-in-law, back to the relative safety of the family farm. He also hopes to find his daughter Lisa and bring her home. But, almost immediately upon finding Sue, in the suburbs of Seattle, terrorists detonate another nuclear bomb and the two must flee amid the chaos and fallout.

Strengthen What Remains Stories

Neal Evans is in Nevada when he hears that an immense coronal mass ejection will soon slam into the Earth’s magnetosphere. Will it cause only beautiful auroras to dance across the night sky or will it throw technology back a hundred years? Politicians and scientists are still debating when Neal decides to act. As night falls, Neal has ten hours to get home before the first CME strikes.

Author Kyle Pratt