When the grid goes down across the entire United States, two brothers named Randall and Thomas Parker find themselves cut off from the rest of their family and trapped in a world of chaos. Fighting their way north to their family's lake cabin in an attempt to find them, things take a turn for the worst when they come into conflict with a large and well-organized survivalist community called the Compound, led by a ruthless leader named Lewis Butler who rules the community with an iron fist. When Thomas is captured by the Compound's powerful forces and delivered into Butler's brutal hands, it's up to Randall to race against time to locate their family and lead a harrowing rescue operation to save his brother before it's too late. "When The Grid Went Down" is Book #1 in the Surviving The EMP Trilogy, a trilogy of post-apocalyptic novels filled with action and suspense as the Parker family struggles to survive in a world filled with hostile forces and danger at every turn.