One Bad Month: Love, Lies, and the Road Home

After surviving the long road east, Henry finally delivers Juniper to her father—President Harlan Maddox—and brings his wounded son and shattered wife inside the government’s last secure compound. It should be a sanctuary. Instead, Henry finds a leader who has all but abandoned the country, a base breached from within, and desperate communities turning on one another beyond the wire.

While Emily fights a private war Henry cannot win for her, he begins doing the only thing he knows: solving the next problem. One open gate becomes an aid corridor. One radio call becomes a lifeline. Soon towns, soldiers, doctors, and survivors across the broken nation are looking to Henry for answers—and leadership—he never asked to provide.

But betrayal has reached the compound, a new threat is rising, and the man responsible for protecting what remains of America may fail at the worst possible moment. Henry can help bring the country back—or lose what remains of his family in the attempt.

One Bad Month is the gripping third installment in A. R. Shaw’s On My Way series, a character-driven post-apocalyptic survival thriller about duty, love, and the long road home.