Tales of the Republic: Sons of the Collapse

By Gary Bowman

Hunter and Harley Lukas grew up in a forgotten holler—two boys surrounded by black mold, broken walls, and a mother slowly dying while Harmony Zone doctors refused to treat her because she wasn’t a resident. When she passed, their father collapsed under the weight of grief and poverty until one frozen night took him, too.

With nothing left but their rifles and each other, the twins bury their parents under a cedar tree and walk west into Kentucky. They aren’t seeking hope — just a place where survival isn’t a losing battle.

But the world beyond the ridge is already burning.

Inside the fortified Harmony Zones, Evelyn Pierce, the UN Minister assigned to oversee the fractured United States, expands her grip. She drafts from the poor, redirects resources to the elites behind green energy walls, and crushes any region that resists her vision of enforced “order.” To Evelyn, the Lukas brothers and people like them are a problem to be swept aside.

In Kentucky, resistance is forming. Danny Harper, hardened by loss and conflict, isn’t a farmer — he’s one of the few willing to stand against UN power. Alongside General Dalton and the emerging Kentucky Guard, he’s preparing for the confrontation everyone knows is coming.

When the Lukas twins step into this fight, they don’t just join a cause.
They become the next generation of its heartbeat.

Forged by hardship.
Sharpened by loss.
Driven by a fire the Green Zones never expected.

Sons of the Collapse continues the gritty, human saga begun in Tales of the Republic: Kentucky Blood — tracing the journey of two brothers who lost everything, only to become part of the battle that could save Kentucky… and possibly the remains of America itself.