Kingdom of Ash

A World Remade Beneath a Broken Sky.2026. It started with a tremor. It ended with the sky turning to stone. When corporate hubris triggers a chain of super-eruptions, the Earth is plunged into a permanent volcanic winter. The sun is blotted out. The temperature plummets. The grid fails. In the frozen wastelands of Wyoming, Grant Holloway, a logistics officer with no orders, makes a desperate choice: he seizes a coal mine and a stranded freight train.
Around this black heart of heat, a fragile society forms, 9The Sheridan Compact. For six years, they survive. They farm potatoes in warehouse darkness. They eat cricket flour. They breathe through filters to escape the microscopic glass shards of the "Ash Lung." They exist in a monochrome world of gray snow and brutal pragmatism. But they are not alone. To the west, the Deseret Slavers harvest human bodies to mine lithium for dying batteries.
To the south, across the "Kingdom Line", a massive glacier of deposited ash, lies the Front Range Alliance: a technocratic fortress that has hoarded the last of the sun's light and the medicine needed to cure the dust-sickness. When a localized atmospheric break reveals a shocking truth, that the south is thriving while the north rots, Grant must lead a team into the heart of the enemy. It is no longer enough to survive the cold.
To save the future, they must steal the fire, expose the lies of the past, and ignite a war for the right to breathe. From the dark of the mines to the blinding light of an artificial dawn, Kingdom of Ash is a terrifying, scientifically grounded epic about what happens when the planet hits the reset button, and how humanity crawls back from the brink.