Apocalyptic Dystopian Thriller

Five years after the last drop of clean water disappeared, global societies collapsed, and nuclear war shattered all hope of recovery. In a place now only a skeleton of its former self, survivors fight to avoid capture by the government. Forced to work in factories that produce the only drinking water available, those who go in never come out.

Night Portals is a metaphysical anthology series that explores the hidden secrets of life around us. Twelve "What If" short stories from the mind of Ernie Howard. Immune is the third story in the series. Jakob the motel clerk opened a door one day. A door that should have stayed closed. Being immune to a virus that will kill off most of the world's population seems like winning the lottery at first. That is until you realize you killed most of the people you loved just by being around them. Sometimes the virus is in your mind. What would you do if you were the last person on Earth?

They took away our history. But they can’t steal our souls. I'm Ellan Weis, a teen kickboxer. Something happens to me, where I can sense disaster. Before it happens. I live in a world where everyone has a com chip in their wrist...where the only truth of the past cataclysm lies in darkweb. The schools are rough, bullies walk the halls, gangs work the streets. My mother’s a key player in rolling out the new haloband, a smart-VR headgear technology at Starcom. My brother’s a hacker working at the same company. A conspiracy is among us. Something to do with the haloband. My family is in ...

Sniper. Assassin. Hired gun. Bounty hunter. Whatever you wanted to call him. Whatever he needed to be. Didn’t matter. All the same. A way to make a living. Survive. This time, however, the tables were turned. *** The year is 2095. The Americas Revolution has ended. And life has changed for everyone--including the last blue-eyed woman.Cyan Sebastian—the last blue-eyed, Caucasian woman known to exist in the Western hemisphere—is on the run. Her safe and sequestered life ripped apart, she is running with a man who has sworn to protect her. A man who once hunted her for the bounty she ...

"Der Tod" wird dich finden... Devin Chase ging bloß seinem Alltag nach, als die Welt schlagartig aus den Angeln gehoben wurde. Binnen einer Woche suchte ein fatales Virus, dem man den Namen "Der Tod" gab, die Erde heim und streckte 90 Prozent aller Infizierten nieder. Nach sechs Monaten in selbst auferlegter Quarantäne tritt Devin hinaus in eine neue Welt. Unterwegs trifft er andere Menschen, die immun sind wie er, entdeckt aber auch, dass die Welt, wie er sie kannte, nicht mehr existiert.

Three years after a virus wiped out 99 percent of the men on earth, a mother and son are on the run. All Cole has left in the world is her boy, Miles. With men now a prised commodity, keeping him safe means breaking hastily written new rules - and leaving her own sister for dead. All Miles has left in the world is his mother.

During the coldest winter on record, an EMP sends American back to the Stone Age. It’s been a week without power. No phones. No computers. Nothing. As the crisis unfolds, one family seeks sanctuary from the cold on the city's outskirts.

Christie Tucci’s Ascension Day went better than expected. Her letter reveals that the Circuit have selected Jake Montana as her life partner. Now all she has to do is find him, and not even the Memory Hunters where he is. Which isn’t a surprise, because Jake has achieved what few people ever have. He’s no longer connected to the Memory Cloud and not even the Circuit can locate him.

Survivors of Pan21 - who didn't report to one of the camps - are being hunted by a ruthless group of Texas Rangers throughout the Republic. Destin, a young survivor who is one of the terrorists at large, has learned to cope and survive on his own, traveling the Republic on freight trains and in the back of semi-trucks, moving from place to place to stay ahead of the law, developing back up plans, contingencies, always contingencies. But Destin longs for more. He's searching for community and a place to belong.

Zack Gurevitz has had a checkered past. A Yeshiva boy, turned Green Beret, turned junkie, excommunicated by his one-time faith and now the potential savior of people he doesn’t even like. As a white supremacist movement stealthily takes the reins of power in America, it is again the Jews who are made out as scapegoats. Stripped of wealth and citizenship, they are made to live in 21st-century ghettos that hark back to a sinister and murky past that many had thought would never return.

Es ist sieben Monate her, dass neunzig Prozent der Weltbevölkerung einer Pandemie erlagen, die "DER TOD" genannt wird. Chaos und Barbarei haben die Rechtsstaatlichkeit ersetzt und nur eine Regel gilt: Töte oder werde getötet. Devin, Tess und Brianna überlebten die Pandemie, doch können sie auch in dieser Welt überleben? Jeder neue Tag birgt Herausforderungen und Gefahren. Ihr Ziel ist es, einen sicheren Ort zu finden, und sie glauben, dass das dort ist, wo sich Tess' Verlobter befindet. Allerdings ist der Weg beschwerlich und es gibt keine Garantie.

A splintered government … The United States Government lay in ashes. The president declares martial law. The National Guard round up citizens who are never heard from again. Amongst the fear and chaos, a small band of revolutionaries rise up to resist… An untried girl … Lacy Monroe, fresh out of high school, has never considered herself a leader. All that changes after the Big Crash. When her family flees to California, she remains behind, guarding the last piece of free land in Oklahoma. Holding out against the hostile military police proves harder than she ever imagined. Then an old...

Cyrus doesn't believe in David's predictions, and he's not interested in being part of a cult. But after the sudden death of his brother, his parents split up and his mom drags him to Waco, Texas, against his will. At least he's not alone. His friends, Marshal and Rachel, have equally sad stories that end with them being dumped at the Branch Davidian Church. Together, they're the trinity of nonbelievers, atheist teens caught between a soon to be infamous cult leader, an erratic FBI, and an epidemic that may confirm the worst of the church's apocalyptic prophecies.

Nick is a pacifist whose been killed for the fourth time. His soul was transferred into the wrong Blank. Not just any Blank, but Creed: a Combat- Ready- E-series- Elimination- Drone. And he has to share it. It’s supposed to be impossible. His life defines the word so that isn’t what bothers him. It's the irony that he’s to blame for making the E-series a reality. He always said it would be the death of him. He may be right.

The world is forever changed in The Mantle Stirs following the events of As Oceans Fall. Past, present, and future collide as Andrew races to complete his lifelong mystery of message coils. Mysterious figures overshadow a deadly puzzle spanning decades and touring places like Louisiana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Texas, and Wyoming. Lydia and Pasha are there to support Andrew, but who else does he dare to trust? Five distinct timelines interweave as Tau Effect: Volume Two further explores the relationship between Andrew and Lydia.

Diejenigen, die überlebt haben, betrachten sich nicht als die Glücklichen - eher als die Verfluchten. Devin sucht verzweifelt nach Tess. Er hat sich verändert, ist unbarmherzig und wütend geworden. Wer auch immer sich ihm in den Weg stellt, wird gnadenlos vernichtet. Travis trauert um Lori, doch Cassidy schenkt ihm Hoffnung. Die beiden begeben sich auf einen beschwerlichen Weg durch die Einöde, die einst Amerika hieß, um nach Tess und Devin zu suchen. Kanzler Horton nahm auf seiner Flucht einem neuen Virus mit sich - tödlicher noch als The Death.

One year has passed since the nail-biting conclusion of the previous book. Life is good for Aoife. She is surviving at Sanctuary, a new community on the south coast. The twist? Sanctuary has electricity. It has power. And its reach and influence is only growing further. Slowly but surely, the new world is starting to feel like the old world, all over again. But when a devastating attack cripples power supplies and leaves masses of residents dead, Sanctuary is completely rocked. The only option? To go after the terrorists responsible, and wipe them out, once and for all.

The world has fallen to ash. Governments have collapsed, police and armies no longer exist and the people of the world have been left behind to fend for themselves in the midst of escalating violence and nuclear fallout. One community of survivors find each other, come together, and try to rebuild, to start over. Confronting the threats from without and within, they do everything necessary to find the only thing left, the most scarce resource of all. Hope.

Most people run from disasters, but for people like Jake it's your job to get to one as fast as you can. As a prepper he does not want to take the risk; as an emergency manager it's his duty. And this time he is not so sure he wants to perform his duty, whether it's his job or not. A major global pandemic is going on and a major hurricane has just hit the Gulf Coast.

A man, an AI, a world to restore. Oswald lives in a world of isolation, as do the remnant of humanity. Their only interactions occur using their Personal Reality machines. They have an hour each month to enjoy the outside air. When Oswald accidently overstays his hour, he meets another human, Faye, in real life for the first time. As they experience the difference of physically interacting in person, they question why they must live as they do. Determined to meet whoever controls their lives, Oswald and Faye embark on a trek of discovery to find this mysterious being. As they struggle to ...