Diane Faherty writes near-present climate disaster survival fiction about the guides, strangers, and impossible choices that define survival when the systems meant to protect people fail all at once.

Her fiction is built around compounding catastrophe: wildfire, flood, and grid failure colliding within hours, not weeks. Rather than centering the disaster itself, Faherty writes about the logistics of escape and the strangers forced into trust when a route disappears mid-journey — evacuation math, failing infrastructure, and the moral cost of deciding who gets saved.

Her series The Last Safe Route follows route guide Renata Sokolov, who leads convoys of evacuees through active, escalating environmental disasters, each book bringing a new region, a new group of strangers, and a new impossible calculation. Readers can expect plausible, present-day disaster, ensemble tension, and a heroine whose competence is the only thing standing between her passengers and the emergency closing in behind them.

For readers who want disaster fiction that feels plausible rather than speculative, ensemble tension, and a guide who never stops calculating the way out, Diane Faherty’s The Last Safe Route delivers survival at ground level.