{"id":42470,"date":"2025-11-17T09:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=42470"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:46:26","slug":"lightning-by-michael-ray-ewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=42470","title":{"rendered":"Lightning by Michael Ray Ewing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A sleek, unnerving sci-fi thriller that runs on dread and precision.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three strangers find themselves pulled into a catastrophe already in motion in Ewing\u2019s compelling latest. Adam Barnett wakes after a lightning strike with half his memory burned away and a dog that seems to know him better than he knows himself. In Scottsdale, Major Blain Jacobson steps into Biodosius Labs and finds silence, torn bodies, and a wiped security system. On her Northern Arizona ranch, Victoria Stewart jolts awake to a psychic tremor she hasn\u2019t felt in years. As an engineered menace threads their lives together and moves toward Phoenix, can any of them decode a threat that learned them first?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ewing mixes noir tension, speculative fear, and survival-thriller urgency into a narrative where the quiet moments bruise the most. Adam\u2019s storyline gives the novel its rawest pulse\u2014survival stripped to instinct. Jacobson\u2019s arc widens the threat, and Victoria\u2019s psychic bleed-through adds to the book\u2019s eeriest emotional current. The horror stays low to the ground\u2014footprints, distorted feeds, the sense of a mind studying you in real time. When the storylines collide, the novel becomes a tense study of engineered brutality and human fragility. Lovers of multi-character, conspiracy-driven suspense will be gratified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lightning-gripping-action-packed-suspense-thriller-ebook\/dp\/B0G1VTVZ24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Pub date April 2, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Grand Canyon Press, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 1963361075, 9781963361070<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Price $6.99 (USD) Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sleek, unnerving sci-fi thriller that runs on dread and precision. 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On her Northern Arizona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":42480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7223,91,2364,3328,178,723771325,723771326,723771167,723771168,1473,1008073,856121,309,723769925,40603706,4511574,723769818,723771130,349],"class_list":["post-42470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-author","tag-blogging","tag-book","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-lightning-a-gripping-and-action-packed-suspense-thriller","tag-michael-ray-ewing","tag-read","tag-reader","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-sci-fi-mystery","tag-scifi-thriller","tag-suspense-and-thriller","tag-thriller","tag-thriller-suspense-fiction","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-b30","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/81siK1aje3L._SY425_.jpg?fit=291%2C425&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42479,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42470\/revisions\/42479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}