The King's Highway

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. Revelation 9:14

A mysterious dead man directs the small band on their journey to a much safer corridor he dubs The King's Highway.
Airplanes are falling out of the sky, and all things electric rendered useless after a mysterious flash. It tests the grit of fifteen-year-old Jackson Allison when the care of his younger siblings fall solely to him. No one knows for sure what's happened, but danger lurks if they stay. With a fierce determination to keep his thirteen-year-old sister McKenzie and nine-year-old brother Cooper safe, the high school freshman is compelled to leave their Irving home in the shadow of the DFW Airport for their grandparents' farm a hundred-plus miles northeast.
Thrust into a lawless, chaotic world, he's guided by an ever-changing cryptic note that leads his growing troupe along the King's Highway. Bullies, Russians, wild animals, gang-bangers, and kidnappers thwart their progress while a lack of drinkable water and food is a constant concern. Will he ever get his troupe to safety in the Red River Valley in far Northeast Texas?