Karst Valley is a fictional town.
It sits among limestone hills, wooded ridges, and familiar roads in southern Indiana. On the surface, it looks like countless other places across the Midwest… predictable, settled, and easy to overlook. Life there follows routines shaped by work schedules, school calendars, church services, and long standing habits.
Until it doesn’t.
Karst Valley: Collapse is a novel about the moment normal systems fail without warning. The collapse does not arrive gradually, and it does not announce itself with spectacle. It comes suddenly, compressing confusion, fear, and uncertainty into a matter of hours. People are forced to make decisions before they fully understand what is happening around them.
This is not a story about the end of the world.
It is a story about the moment when phones stop working the way they should. When roads close without explanation. When authority feels distant, fragmented, or absent altogether. It follows ordinary people navigating extraordinary disruption, relying on instinct, trust, and incomplete information rather than preparation or foresight.
Before everything shifts, Karst Valley feels normal. Families attend church. Downtown businesses open on schedule. Plans are made for the week ahead. Nothing feels urgent. Nothing feels impossible.
The world of Karst Valley: Collapse can be explored through its people, its places, and its everyday voices. Each section of this site offers a different perspective on the same town, capturing life as it was just before the story begins.
This site exists to provide context, atmosphere, and depth for the novel. All characters, locations, and events presented here are fictional and created as part of the world of Karst Valley: Collapse.
The Valley is open.
Where you begin is up to you. But I would recommend Chapter One…just saying