Help remembering title of audiobook (Post-apocalyptic fiction genre)

EDIT: Found it! It's a book called Northern Lights by Boyd Craven III, one of 2 books in his Scorched Earth series (it's not really a series, just a collection of 2 separate books).

There is actually no military action, no violence or much other action involved, unlike most books in this genre. The most action and violence I can remember is a bear attack.

Some of what I remember (without boring you too much)...

A party of 4 friends from USA (3 men and a woman who is married to one of the men) rent a cabin in Canada take a week-long camping/fishing trip. They are dropped off by floatplane at the cabin they rented.

Very soon after the pilot takes-off to leave them, an EMP attack happens. The pilot's pacemaker malfunctions and the plane crashes into the lake close to the cabin (the party of 4 witness it but are clueless as to what caused it). The party is now stranded. No way to communicate with anyone and are faced with survival for who knows how long.

Eventually they find a family of 4 other people who are living in a cabin an hour or so boat ride down the lake - 2 young women (one of whom is deaf) and their parents. The parents eventually die (mother is diabetic and father has appendix rupture), these are the only deaths in the book.

They eventually decide they all have to live together in one cabin because winter is coming and their cabins are too far apart to help each other in their survival. All the characters are clueless when it comes to long-term survival save for the main character who has some knowledge (he's somewhat of a prepper/survivalist type but not hardcore, so more knowledge than experience), so he has to teach them what he knows.

The whole book is basically what these people do to survive in this desolate area - they trap, hunt, fish and make devices like solar ovens, traps, etc, using parts from the crashed plane. They also eventually find another cabin that's unoccupied which has some supplies they can use.

It's all just about them surviving in this desolate area of Canada.

I'm pretty sure it's just a single book but it could be a small series of 2 or 3 books.

I don't remember if the narrator is male or female but I'm 75% sure on male.

Thanks for reading and hopefully someone remembers what book this is.

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