In galactic terms, the Earth lives in a dangerous neighborhood. Seven times in the past, humanity has reached for the stars, only to have their civilization destroyed by an extinction event. The scattered surviving pockets of humanity returned to a meager agrarian existence, with little or no retention of their prior technology and knowledge base. As fuel and food stocks were depleted, those survivors without the ability to acquire more, perished.

The Coastal Event Memories Series is a five Volume collection of novellas, which tell the stories of a group of people who survived a near-term extinction event, due to a combination of fate, tenacity, and a will to live, when millions of others perished. Their world changed forever, and they must face the challenges of surviving, while retaining at least a small part of the technology and civilization which had been reaching for the stars.

Volume I tells the stories of a small band of a present-day extinction event survivors, on the western slopes of the Sierras, on the shore of a vast inland sea, which used to be the California Central Valley.