World Gone Dark #1
by January Bain
Published: June 30, 2026
Publisher: Rough Edges Press
Genre: Disaster Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Survival Thriller, Dystopian, Fiction, Science Fiction
Blurb:
When
the lights go out, the real darkness has just begun.
The
sun did it in a heartbeat: one catastrophic Coronal Mass Ejection
exceeding the 1859 Carrington Event, and everything that kept the
modern world alive—power, modern vehicles, communications, supply
chains—is gone. The Mackenzie family of Hardin Creek, Kentucky, is
scattered across a dying America: one sister fighting to keep her
diabetic youngest sibling alive, another stranded two thousand miles
away in Los Angeles, and their brother locked on death row for a
murder he didn't commit.
With temperatures soaring and
desperate strangers turning violent beneath a sky blazing with
ghostly Northern Lights, Burgundy Mackenzie will do whatever it takes
to hold her family together. But help comes from an unexpected
source—Frost Hellebuyck, a rebellious survivalist who plays by no
one’s rules but his own. In the old world, she never would have
trusted him. But the old world is gone.
Auburn is racing
home, Cormac is fighting to stay alive long enough to prove his
innocence, and the darkness gathering over Hardin Creek isn’t the
kind you can fight with a gun. When civilization collapses, everyone
is one desperate choice away from becoming something
unrecognizable—and not everyone is going to make it.
Race
the Sun is Book 1 of the World
Gone Dark series.
Start the race now—before the world leaves you behind.
My Review:
Race the Sun marks an excellent start to the new series, World Gone Dark, by January Bain. It tells the story of the Mackenzie family, who are scattered across America when the lights suddenly go out.
Burgundy is in Hardin Creek, Kentucky, their hometown, where she struggles to keep their younger sibling, Poppy, who has diabetes, alive. At the time the lights go out, Poppy is hospitalized.
Auburn is stranded 2,000 miles away in Los Angeles, where she is attending college. She has no desire to return to Hardin Creek but struggles to communicate her decision to her siblings.
Upon learning of the impending catastrophic solar event, Auburn, Tara, and Zack decide to return to Hardin Creek on their mountain bikes. They are apprehensive about flying, fearing that a plane might crash if they were aboard during the solar event.
Cormac is on death row for a crime he did not commit. He is racing against time to prove his innocence. Just before a pivotal moment in Cormac's life, he falls ill and must be taken to the hospital.
Frost Hellebuyck, a defiant survivalist, helps Auburn gather the supplies and insulin Poppy needs to survive before the solar event strikes. Frost is not someone Auburn would have trusted in the previous world, but the circumstances they face after the lights go out change everything. It turns out that Frost may be the most capable person to safeguard her and her siblings in this new reality.
Race the Sun is an incredibly gripping narrative that had me racing towards the conclusion, unable to put it down for even a moment, eager to discover whether the Mackenzie siblings would ever reunite. The anxiety surrounding Cormac's uncertain fate consumed me, while Poppy's medical crisis kept me on the edge of my seat.
I wholeheartedly recommend picking up a copy of Race the Sun, the beginning of the new series, World Gone Dark, today!
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