Richard just wanted a girlfriend—not the apocalypse. Richard Peak's senior year is looking painfully ordinary—fighting for position on the soccer team, his parents’ constant arguing, a glaring lack of a girlfriend. He can’t wait to graduate and join a soccer team overseas, preferably as far from home as possible. Then the president is assassinated and his life changes forever. As an alarming chain of nationwide terrorist attacks trigger a civil war, Richard finds himself on a dangerous journey for survival. As those around him fall prey to hunger, illness, and hatred, Richard must decide between a full stomach and humanity—and somehow create a new society out of the ashes of a fallen world. Richard's Story is the secret journal of the boy eventually founded the New Order Republic of America (NORA). This is an exclusive prequel to the bestselling Numbers Game Saga.