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Also by Mike Chen:

Critical Role, August 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Photonic Effect, May 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Marvel: What If . . . Marc Spector Was Host to Venom? (A Moon Knight & Venom Story), November 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
A Quantum Love Story, February 2024
Paperback / e-Book
Vampire Weekend, February 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Light Years from Home, February 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
We Could Be Heroes, February 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
A Beginning at the End, January 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Here and Now and Then, September 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Here and Now and Then, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book

A BEGINNING AT THE END
By: Mike Chen

MIRA
January 2020
On Sale: January 14, 2020
368 pages
ISBN: 0778309347
EAN: 9780778309345
Kindle: B07QKD5TT1
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller

How do you start over after the end of the world?

Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet’s population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs.In postapocalyptic San Francisco, former pop star Moira has created a new identity to finally escape her past—until her domineering father launches a sweeping public search to track her down. 

Desperate for a fresh start herself, jaded event planner Krista navigates the world on behalf of those too traumatized to go outside, determined to help everyone move on—even if they don’t want to. Rob survived the catastrophe with his daughter, Sunny, but lost his wife. When strict government rules threaten to separate parent and child, Rob needs to prove himself worthy in the city’s eyes by connecting with people again.

Krista, Moira, Rob and Sunny are brought together by circumstance, and their lives begin to twine together. But when reports of another outbreak throw the fragile society into panic, the friends are forced to finally face everything that came before—and everything they still stand to lose. Because sometimes having one person is enough to keep the world going.