Blood and Iron

When a silent EMP decimates the American grid, the Barrett family's carefully constructed legal empire collapses overnight. Judge Dashiell Barrett, a man who has spent his life behind the bench, must now navigate a world where the only law is survival. But the real enemy isn't the chaos outside—it's the violence coiled in his own bloodline. From his bootlegger grandfather to his corrupt industrialist ancestor, the Barretts have always known that civilization is just a thin skin over savagery. As his daughter Miranda rises through a brutal new order forged by the warlord Viktor Voss, Barrett confronts a chilling truth: the family's talent for cruelty has never been a curse, but an inheritance waiting for the right moment to bloom.