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 Sullivan, the summer of 2024 was the beginning of the end. The news was constantly reporting on political upheavals and natural disasters, food and gas shortages were becoming more frequent, and Southern California was unbearably hot. Soon Olivia became obsessed with doomsday prepping, spending hours on forums, determined to protect her children from the coming apocalypse. Her husband and friends insisted she was being irrational, but then Olivia was swept away in a flash flood that wiped out half of LA.

Or that’s the story Rosie, Bettie, and Cassie were told.

Twenty years later, the sisters discovered a box of their mother’s belongings that called into question everything their father had told them about their mother, including whether she had really died. Reeling from their father’s betrayal, the family returned to California determined to uncover Olivia’s true fate. Confronted by a world unlike anything they’d ever known, where no one quite seemed to be telling the truth and danger hung heavy in the air, the Sullivan triplets found themselves struggling with questions about the father who raised them and the mother who may have abandoned them, all while trying to hold onto the only constant in their lives—each other.