This Christmas Eve, America goes dark.

Families are gathering in celebration. Presents wait under trees. Across America, it was to be a night of festivities and anticipation.

Then the night goes silent.

From International bestselling author Bobby Akart comes Silent Night, a heart-pounding standalone disaster thriller of America collapsing and the family trying to survive it.

In Kansas City, Arrowhead Stadium roars as the Chiefs take the field. Shoppers flood the Country Club Plaza where the Dalton family’s barbecue restaurant glows with holiday lights.

A rogue missile detonates high above the heart of America, unleashing a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse (EMP), instantly shattering the nation’s power grid. In a single, silent flash, planes fall from the sky, cars become frozen steel coffins, and the reassuring hum of civilization is replaced by a terrifying silence. From coast to coast, the modern world goes dark.

No power. No communication. No rescue.

As the temperature plummets and desperation spreads, the Dalton family is scattered throughout the city and caught in the chaos. Smoke Dalton and his wife Ruby, are in the midst of dinner rush at Dalton’s Smokehouse. Their son, Frank, is on the field of a packed football stadium. Their daughter, Charlie, an ER nurse, is racing to pick up her children from the airport.

In this relentless storm of catastrophe and courage, will their unbreakable bond light the way through the darkness?

Or will the silent night claim them forever? In the silence of collapse, family is all that remains.

This modern-day, fact-based novel will have you whispering just one more chapter until the end.