Stories From Middle America
A New Collection
In the heart of Middle America, ordinary people face moments that can quietly define or destroy them. This sharp collection of five stories — Places People Fall, The Thevenin Cipher, The Bar on Fuller Street, Seconds, and The Life and Death of an Unimportant Man — explores falls, hidden truths, regret, resilience, and the fragile line between survival and surrender.
- Places People Fall thrusts a lone hiker into a life-or-death struggle in the desert, where survival demands choices no one should face.
- The Thevenin Cipher follows a young man unraveling a Revolutionary-era mystery that blurs the line between past and present, turning history into a dangerous personal quest.
- The Bar on Fuller Street traps three strangers inside a neighborhood bar as a city riot erupts outside, forcing them to confront their own fractured realities amid the chaos.
- Seconds explores the razor-thin margin between life and regret, where a single moment can redefine everything.
- And The Life and Death of an Unimportant Man delivers a poignant meditation on legacy, invisibility, and the profound weight of an unremarkable existence.
The Fading Darkness Series
An Epic Trilogy Set in Colonial America
On the brutal Virginia frontier, the American Revolution was fought not with ideals, but with tomahawks, ambushes, and impossible choices.
Spanning 1774 to 1776, The Fading Darkness trilogy follows ordinary people — settlers, soldiers, and Shawnee — caught in a savage war where loyalty is tested, families are destroyed, and survival often demands crossing moral lines.
Gritty historical thrillers set during the darkest days of the fight for independence.
Zac Northup
Thrillers • Historical Fiction • Short Stories
Thrillers • Historical Fiction • Short Stories
Zac Northup writes immersive, realistic, and unflinching fiction and nonfiction that bypasses agendas and sparks imagination. From the high-stakes thrillers and historical novels, to the Fading Darkness series, the post-apocalyptic REMNANT tales, sharp short stories, and deeply researched nonfiction, his work delivers gripping narratives grounded in truth. He also works with select clients as a ghostwriter, crafting powerful stories for others.
REMNANT:
The Boreasby Blueprint
REMNANT:
The Boreasby Blueprint
The Future Depends on a Remnant of the Past
In a fractured landscape marred by “The Strife,” a low-intensity insurgent war has become the grueling status quo. A5 Research Agent Fletcher Whitney is tasked with reconstructing the truth from a massive quantum core known as Big Blue. When Fletcher interrogates a mysterious hermit, he discovers a manuscript that shouldn’t exist: a perfect blueprint of the war written years before it began. Remnant explores the chilling intersection of AI, corrupted history, and the unrelenting war between good and evil.
In the Ashes
A Novel In Development
In the Ashes
In the final days of World War II, a squad of battle-weary American soldiers accidentally kills a Jewish prisoner while clearing a concentration camp. They launch a desperate race against time to find and save his wife before the SS can execute her, while confronting the horrors around them and the moral darkness the war has left within.
Mercy was the most dangerous mission
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Stories From Middle America
A Collection
In the heart of Middle America, ordinary people face moments that can quietly define or destroy them. This sharp collection of five stories explores falls, hidden truths, regret, resilience, and the fragile line between survival and surrender.
REMNANT
A New Techno-thriller
In a fractured landscape, Fletcher Whitney discovers a classified blueprint for pre-scripted war. Remnant explores the chilling intersection of rogue AI and corrupted history.
Through the Fading Darkness
Book One
On the volatile 1774 Virginia frontier, a savage murder spree forces unlikely allies into a desperate battle for survival that challenges their very humanity.
Sample the audiobook on Audible or Apple Books
Beyond the Fading Darkness
Book Two
Amidst the stirring rebellion of 1775, a ruthless plot in Virginia to assassinate patriot leaders forces familiar heroes into a deadly web of espionage to save the revolution.
Sample the audiobook on Audible or Apple Books
Winter’s Ghosts
Book Three
It’s the winter of 1776.The war is underway and a ruthless plot to assassinate patriot leaders forces familiar heroes into a deadly web of espionage to save the revolution.
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