Lindsey Pogue

author of The Savage North Chronicles, The Surviving Earth Chronicles, and several others

About The Savage North Chronicles

Sometimes the most shattered souls make the fiercest protectors

When a virus decimates civilization, those remaining must survive in an unrecognizable world.

Elle awakes from her fever forever changed. Her touch is lethal and power courses through her veins like liquid fire. With four orphaned children depending on her, Elle is terrified of more than Alaska’s brutal winter and the collapsing city—she’s terrified of the darkness growing inside her.

Jackson lost everything to the outbreak: his family, his purpose, his hope. Trading his badge for a bottle of bourbon, he holes himself away, desperate to numb the pain. But when Elle and the kids need help, the walls around his heart begin to crack. Determined to get everyone to safety, Jackson leads them into the wilderness, relying on instinct and the traditions of his people to keep them safe.

Only, in a world where the greatest threats aren’t the cold or starvation, but what humanity has become, new monsters lurk in the shadows, capable of impossible things.

The longer Jackson clings to his grief and Elle hides her devastating secrets, they risk losing not only each other, but everything they’re fighting to save. And to survive what’s coming, they’ll have to shed the past. Because family isn’t about blood, it’s about who you’d die to protect and who you’d dare to live for.

A soul-stirring tale of found family, impossible choices, and the courage to fight for hope when darkness feels endless.

The Savage North Chronicles Reading Order
1. The Darkest Winter

2. The Longest Night, prequel

3. Midnight Sun

4. Fading Shadows

5. Untamed

6. Unbroken 

7. Day Zero: Beginnings

Review of The Darkest Winter, book 1 of The Savage North Chronicles

The Darkest Winter follows Ellie, a woman with a difficult past who is thrust back into that past when her abusive step-father dies and leaves his house to her. A house she never wanted to go back to. The second POV is Jackson, a father-to-be and cop who is finally learning to enjoy the good things in life. That is until the world ends. Ellie, Jackson, and a group of kids have to figure out how to survive the end of the world…and their new powers.

I found Lindsey’s books during the pandemic. I live in a very remote part of the US, we were so removed from the waves of COVID that it seemed it wasn’t happening in our community at all. Until, the first death in our woefully inequipt ER. I had been reading a lot of other end of the world books (look I was very depressed and pessimistic, don’t judge me, lol) and while all of them were fun or exciting, The Darkest Winter felt the truest to my experiences.

Not only is the book realistic (aside from the superpowers), the characters are also well developed. Each of the main characters gets a book in the series, and we get to see the children that Ellie and Jackson save grow up. This is a rare thing to see in media of any kind. Lindsey Pogue did so well that I joined her Pogue Gone Rogue readers community to see what else she was up to!