Left for Dead - The Left for Dead Saga, #1

Everydaypeople from all walks of life are going about their normal business when a disaster of epic proportions changes everything.  Lights flicker and go out, self-driving cars begin to behave eratically, planes fall from the sky, cellphones ignite like Fourth of July fireworks.  And the disaster couldn't have come at a worse time, because the US is already bogged down under feet of snow and ice having suffered an Artic Polar Vortex, thought by some to have been brought on by global warming.
In an instant, the world is transformed into a killing field as all modern technology is stripped away.  Some believe the Nation has been struck by an EMP but signs point to something else, something inexplicable. Asher Latham is in the Tennessee State Penitentiary when disaster strikes.  A consumate prepper, he believes he knows what's coming and what he must do to survive. Bethany Johnson, a graduate law student at Vanderbilt University is on campus and wants nothing more than to avoid injury or death and somehow get through the chaos to find her mom and sisters who are scattered all over the city, which has been turned into a disaster zone.  Grant Foster, pastor of a local mega church and his beloved wife Donna-Jo rally their neighbors and others to try and help the flock from their church.  Their odds of survival are low but they all fight to survive as they realize they are on their own.