After an extended blackout, the residents of a Chicago suburb begin to piece together the last fragments of media reports regarding a super virus which caused the total shutdown of NYC. In the midst of their chaotic reorganization, a mysterious figure appears, who suggests there is more going on than a simple power outage.Blackout is the first book in a ten part series which explores how the entity known as Glowbug reshapes the country, from seeding new Messiahs in the west, to birthing a vast army of epileptic übermensch in the east, and how one family deals with, and confronts, the drastic changes to life as they knew it.