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A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse

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By Hollie Overton

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$25.99 CAD

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 is constantly reporting on political upheavals and natural disasters, food and gas shortages are becoming more frequent, and southern California is unbearably hot. Soon Olivia becomes obsessed with doomsday prepping, spending hours on forums determined to protect her children from the coming apocalypse. Her husband and friends insist she’s being irrational, but then Olivia is 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 discover a box of their mother’s belongings that calls into question everything they’re father has told them about their mother, including 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 known, where no one quite seems to be telling the truth and danger hangs heavy in the air, the Sullivan triplets find 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. 

  • "What a compulsive read! A brilliant first novel that kept me transfixed and entertained until the very last page."
    New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen
  • "Compelling ... Overton throws in enough twists, turns, and surprises to keep the reader wondering what on earth can happen next."
    Publishers Weekly
  • "Compelling."
    Richmond-Times Dispatch
  • "A gripping page-turner that will make you think about what it means to be free."
    Glamour (South Africa)

On Sale
Aug 19, 2025
Page Count
416 pages
Publisher
Redhook
ISBN-13
9780316482387

Hollie Overton

About the Author

Debut author Hollie Overton was raised by her single mother, and Hollie — an identical twin herself — draws on her unique childhood experiences for her first novel, Baby Doll. Overton’s father was a member of the notorious Overton gang in Austin, Texas, and spent several years in prison for manslaughter. Hollie is a television writer and resides in Los Angeles.

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