Dystopian Suspense

The war is here, and it’s taking a toll on everyone I love. Now that my family is back together, we’re relying on each other more than ever. As a whole, we’re unstoppable. But Reaper and I continue to struggle. This war only adds stress to our already fragile relationship, and I’m not sure we’ll survive it.

The neons do as they're told. Chemically bound to their masters by the experimental chemi-chip implant created from alien technology, they are genetically engineered at rapid rates to be servants for the survivors of the war against alien invaders. Without neons, reconstruction would be impossible. Colin Hanston - the unremarkable son of the genius who invented the chemi-chip - leads a simple life as a farmer, helping feed his district as any good citizen should. But when he redeems his voucher for a neon servant of his own named Michael, everything changes.

It's late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city's last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that's eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He's pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and is shocked unconscious. When he awakens, Carver works to find out what happened to him, soon realizing he's entangled in a web of conspiracy that spans the nation.

It’s the hottest winter on record, but Raymond’s demanding, bedridden mother doesn’t mind. She likes it warm. Lately, however, control over the thermostat has become a nasty struggle. And each morning that she’s still alive is a suffocating new challenge for Raymond. How high can the mercury climb before he boils over?

In the ravaged future, children are disappearing. Riley lives safely behind her perimeter fence, but soon she'll have to confront the terrible truth of what's happening outside. An old enemy is approaching. Threatening to extinguish her way of life. To save herself, Riley must fight to save another. She must put herself in the last place she ever wanted to be.

An addictively macabre short story collection, People Like Us includes all works from Listeners and Aftertaste. For fans of Joe Hill, Gillian Flynn and Carolyn Kepnes. “From the feverishly surreal to the downright demented, O’Flynn takes you on a twisted journey through the deepest and darkest corners of the human mind.” ~Bestselling Author Mary Widdicks BEWARE THOSE WHO ENTER HERE… From the bestselling author of The Jilted comes a hellscape replete with shocking twists you’ll never see coming. Eerie voyeurs, snow-crusted wilderness, strange pets, demented neighbors, and all the ...

With the country slowly descending into chaos, a visionary leader takes action. Dave Cavanaugh, a silver-haired outdoorsman, mountain hiker, and billionaire, dubbed the “Richard Branson of the Rockies”, sets in motion a plan to construct walled, gated communities across the country to preserve art, science, medicine, and religion - designed to be islands of calm in a sea of chaos. Much like Noah built an ark before the great flood, Dave intends to build a series of land-based arks before the country completely drowns in chaos.

Four hundred years in the future, in a dystopian sphere city called Vampire Nation, humans have only three choices: become a vampire, become a breeder, or become a feeder. But Devin wants something forbidden: his freedom. But freedom isn’t free—it always comes at a price... Ariana helps Devin escape, but she is caught and arrested. She faces capital charges, but her captors aren’t ready to kill her—yet. When she’s interrogated about the resistance movement, her only chance to stay alive is not to give them what they want to know. As a prisoner of the highest-ranking vampires, who ...

Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an unlikely partner in Cassidy Carter—the cynical starlet of his film—and the two investigate the sun-scorched city.

In a future where homelessness is an illegal status, and those living on the streets are registered into "Sponsorship" programs, crime and abuse runs rampant. Keegan Smith rejects the idea of the system, but finds himself inheriting one of the largest Sponsorship programs in the nation from his late father. When he finds an illegal fighting ring linked to sex trafficking and other atrocities within his own corporation, he is trapped between protecting his family and buying in, and adhering to his own morals by fighting back.

The future of the environment ...plays out on a remote stage.As Jake Maguire, a young FBI special agent, sets out to investigate the murder of a celebrity environmentalist in far-off Mongolia, he finds himself in a race against time. With mining interests and a desperate killer hot on his tail, Jake must use all of his skills and training to unravel the mystery and prevent a lovely and intrepid investigative journalist from walking into danger. With nonstop action and edge-of-your-seat suspense, Murder in Mongolia is a thrilling tale of crime and international intrigue that will keep you ...

In this fractured world, a sinister force is coming for Riley, and the only things keeping her safe are a perimeter fence and the people she loves. As her life is threatened, she must make impossible choices. But help comes from the most unlikely of places, and all Riley needs to know is: Who can she really trust? Meanwhile, a repentant killer searches for peace and salvation, but what he gets is the exact opposite. Now, he'll have to make the hardest decision of his life.

Lucien moves to Los Angeles to be with his grandmother as she undergoes an experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s using the new drug, Memoroxin. An emerging photographer, he’s also running from the sudden death of his mother, a well-known artist whose legacy haunts him. Sophie has just landed the lead in the upcoming performance of La Sylphide with the Los Angeles Ballet Company. She still waitresses at the Chateau Marmont during her off-hours, witnessing the recreational use of Memoroxin - or Mem - among the Hollywood elite.

When a massive solar flare wiped out all modern technology across the globe, the small town of Abney, Texas, was thrown into chaos. Shelby Sparks and her teenage son, Carter, have found refuge, but Shelby knows she can't simply remain hidden. Carter is a type-one diabetic in need of insulin - and Shelby will risk her life traveling to Austin to make sure he gets it. Shelby's best friend and high school sweetheart, Max Berkman, won't even consider letting her make the perilous journey alone.

From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Josie Litton Think you know the story of "Sleeping Beauty"? Discover it again for the very first time. In this sensual retelling of “Sleeping Beauty” set in the near future, a beautiful young woman awakens in the garden of a secluded estate with no knowledge of who she is or how she came to be there. For the man who walks out of the darkness to claim her, she is at once the ultimate challenge and the greatest temptation. "5 Explosive stars...nothing less than spectacular…sensual, explosive and revealing."--DawnMarie Carpintero, Goodreads ...

Out they came, away from natural predators, nesting in damp corners and in the tops of trees, crossbreeding with common cousins and laying thousands upon thousands of eggs. 'Then...the eggs hatched and an army of hungry caterpillars spread their tiny toxic threads on every breath of wind.’ The threads spell doom for humanity - half of it, at least. All around the world, men are dying in their sleep or turning into rage-fuelled killers. The world, as we know it, ends. However, humanity adapts and society moves on.

Nathan, Denny, Jess, and Tori, together with Sergeant Banks and his Marines, have met a new ally with knowledge of a possible EMP attack on the west coast. Their plans to head north and rally on Buchanan remain the top priority. Colonel Charles Buchanan and his men have at last joined forces with General John James at the secret military installation in the Black Hills of South Dakota and have been advised of an impending attack from a sizeable UN force.

For 12 years, Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they must take for survival every eight hours. They’ve kept busy - Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music, Whitney with his sculptures and maps - but something is not right. Shipwrecks have begun washing up, and their supply drops have stopped. And on the day they’re meant to be collected for parole, the Warden does not come. Instead there’s a sheep. But sheep can’t swim.

After a foiled biological attack has been pinned on the cleaner and Ellen, they make a timely escape to a mysterious safe house run by a secret organization known as "The Ghost Society", a technological resistance group. In an apocalyptic landscape, traveling by river and road, can they reach the safe house before Stella and her foot soldiers catch up with them? With danger and secrets as constant companions on their perilous journey, will they all make it there in one piece, as figures from their past reappear? Their only place of safety will be inside "The Ghost Society".

This is a SHORT STORY set within the ongoing THE UNSEEN franchise. Potential spoilers ahead! This action-packed thriller stars Jillian Moon, recapping her initial encounter with the Unseen inside New York’s Museum of Natural History, an event that occurs during ORIGIN (The Unseen Book 1).