Days of Want Series, Books 1-7

About This Audiobook

If you crave a post-apocalyptic tale that ditches the usual zombie hordes for something far more insidious, *Days of Want* delivers a brutal gut-punch. An EMP blasts the modern world into darkness, leaving Maddie Langston stranded in a frozen Chicago airport with no plan, no supplies, and no one she can trust. Payne’s series thrives on the unrelenting tension of human desperation—less *Mad Max*, more *The Road* meets *The Stand*, where survival isn’t just about food and water but about outsmarting ruthless factions and your own crumbling moral compass. The audiobook’s strength lies in its refusal to romanticize collapse; these aren’t hardened heroes, but ordinary people pushed to their limits, and Pierce’s narration amplifies every cracked voice and desperate choice with a grittiness that pulls you into the chaos like a magnet. The world-building is a masterclass in gradual revelation—no info-dumps, just the slow accretion of horror as the grid’s death spiral tightens its grip.