Day Zero: When the Lights Went Out, She Was Thousands of Miles From Home Collapse Trilogy Book

When the power dies, survival is only the beginning.Maya Chen is a twenty-one-year-old American exchange student in Amsterdam, studying computer science and living thousands of miles from home. On an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, everything changes. The power grid fails. Completely. No flicker, no warning, just darkness.Within hours, the modern world begins to unravel.Planes fall silent in the sky. Cell phones become useless bricks. Electric cars stall in the streets. Water stops flowing. The internet, the only way Maya could contact her family back in America, is gone. And with no way to know if the collapse is local or global, Maya faces a terrifying reality: she may never see home again.But Maya is not alone in this nightmare.Pieter de Vries, a seventy-something Dutchman who remembers life before the digital age, offers wisdom and survival skills from a simpler time. Sofia Ramirez, a Spanish doctor at a failing hospital, makes impossible choices about who lives and who dies. Thijs Bakker, a calculating opportunist, sees the chaos as a chance to seize power. Through their eyes, we witness the collapse of civilization from every angle—the desperate, the wise, the ruthless, and the resilient.As Amsterdam descends into violence and uncertainty, Maya must learn to survive without the technology she’s always depended on. With winter approaching and resources dwindling, she joins forces with her athletic roommate Lena and the weathered Pieter to navigate the lawless streets. But staying alive means facing brutal questions: What happens when society’s rules disappear? How do you build community when trust is a luxury? And when you don’t know if your family is alive, how do you find the will to keep going?Day Zero is a haunting, character-driven thriller about the fragility of modern life and the strength found in unexpected places. For fans of Station Eleven, The Road, and World War Z.