Dystopian Suspense

When does a 47-year-old woman became the hero in an apocalyptic world? After the world is shattered, Margaret finds herself forced out of her chosen role as a mother back to her former life as a military commander. Finding herself in charge of a surviving community desperate for order, she needs to rely on all the skills she learned in the military, and as a mother, to navigate the betrayal, resource wars, and shifting allegiances of the new world. As a soldier, she knows how to give orders and make sure they are obeyed. As a mother, she knows how to sacrifice for others and fight for the ...

In the past, the mere whisper of the “N” word sent chills down spines. Nations stepped back from the edge. It meant destruction, devastation—nuclear war. But not anymore. The world has changed. Power is currency, morality is optional, and the leaders who possess nuclear weapons no longer see them as last resorts. They see them as leverage. The “N” word—nuclear—no longer deters. It provokes. It threatens. And this time… it may just happen.

The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.

Walter Lawrence Baucom is used to the troops that patrol Agrarian District 89. He grew up with the sight of Chinese and Russian soldiers, right alongside the American ones. They are the Coalition. "The Three Brothers", they call themselves. They claim that they are there to help. And he thinks that if he doesn't rock the boat, then they will never have a reason to break in his door and disappear him, like they did to his brother.

Lincoln Atwood survived the contagion that wiped out nine-tenths of humanity. As the last survivor in a secret government bunker, he knows that the other survivors are scared, angry, and dangerous, just like him. After weeks alone with the mummified bodies of his colleagues, he escapes the bunker. But the world outside has changed. Among the crumbling ruins of civilization, he loses himself to the wilderness in his soul. When he sees Caroline, a fellow survivor, she is vision of light in a world gone dark.

In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie.

Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur, India, earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. During the same week, the Chinese government "accidentally" drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country.

Have you been a model Citizen today? Lena Carr is a Citizen who does not exist. Being invisible can have its advantages, but not when the Chief Overseer knows what your alias is. She can no longer use the gift her father left her. But she also can't walk the streets as the Elite she was born to be... The Cardinals are closing in, and one, in particular, has Selena in his sights. With revolution on the Citizen's minds and hope in the form of a rebellious Elite exhibiting non-model behaviour, the Overseers crack down on dissension. Causing chaos on the streets and blood to flow. For his "...

Cady is fighting just to stay alive. Her daughter is almost dead. Cady's mother has to decide between saving one or the other. Could the end of the world be any worse? You bet, when you have a group of men set out to enslave every woman and corrupt every child they come across. With so much against them, it's no surprise when Cady considers giving up. All she'd have to do is jump off the ledge. But then what? Her daughter would be a victim and Cady just couldn't let that happen. While Cady rallies the other captives, decisions are made around the world that may or may not seal the ...

The Ash Loop A Psychological Thriller Where Memory Burns and Choice Is the Final Weapon Elise Archer was supposed to be erased. Instead, she became something Carmine never predicted—unwritten. Now, hunted by the final fragments of the looping system that tried to define her, Elise enters the Ash Loop: a recursive hell built from grief, fire, and memory so corrupted it rewrites the minds trapped inside. Everywhere she turns, she sees pieces of herself—versions she never lived, lives she never chose, and people the system never let go. The loops are collapsing. The archive is imploding. ...

Kyle Tait, having survived the harrowing, cross-country journey home to his family, must now struggle for existence in a post-EMP world that no one could have imagined just three short months prior. Each day brings new challenges - how to fight the bitter cold, where to scavenge food for the table, and how to best fend off intruders and keep their community safe. As the cold, dark days of winter begin the slow transition to spring, the Tait family is faced with a challenge that dwarfs all others.

In the year 2043, with the nation destroyed by war, 17-year-old Kress and her conspiracy of friends embark on a dangerous cross-country mission to locate and recruit other Emergents, the name given to teenagers who have begun to exhibit strange evolutionary abilities. Not all Emergents are ready to accept who and what they are, however, and some have even started using their abilities for selfish or evil ends. Now Kress has to figure out who is friend and who is foe as she risks everything to expose the government’s lies and take down the tyrannical President Krug once and for all.

After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he takes long walks and binge-watches Blue Lives - a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak, Darwinian view of life - and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all.

It was once named America, but now it is just "the Republic". Following the worldwide implementation of a UN-led program called Agenda 21, the once-proud people of America have become obedient residents who live in barren, brutal Compounds and serve the autocratic, merciless Authorities. Citizens mainly keep their heads down and their mouths shut - but Emmeline is different. When the Authorities took her mother away, she started questioning the world around her.

In 2035, the southwestern United States is ravaged by drought, reeling from an environmental catastrophe that has left the landscape a chaotic, depleted ruin. California, still viably inhabitable due to its oppressive social controls, marshals state-of-the-art surveillance technology and totalitarian policies to preserve its fragile hold on rapidly dwindling resources and an increasingly unsettled population.

Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Where the gender pay gap no longer exists and motherhood opens doors instead of closing them. Where women are no longer afraid to walk home alone, to cross a dark parking lot, or to catch the last train. Where all men are electronically tagged and not allowed out after 7 p.m. But the curfew hasn’t made life easy for all women

Never Let Me Go meets Zone of Interest.
A creepy, compelling novel that takes place in a version of our world where some lives are valued less than others. It will shock you with each new revelation.

“Riveting!...Incredibly unique” – Lindsay Crandall, Independent Book Review “A chilling, thought-provoking read that leaves one pondering the price of conformity and the true meaning of freedom… a holistic yet disturbing picture of a society on the brink of madness.” – Eugene Lasha, The Book Commentary From the author of My Name Was Susan O’Malley - Talis and Lark’s marriage is coming apart at the seams, but finding their true happiness requires a dowry of unspeakable value. “A bit of Orwell…with a touch of Handmaid’s Tale.” (Early reader feedback)

So how can I turn the world into shambles in 61 pages? I get to the meat of the matter in a terrifying way...you heard it all before...what will happen if you wake up and the lights are off, grocery stores are already looted and you have a bottle of pills...what's your next move... You Launch! We Launch! Some countries don't like other countries so a bluff is called... It's short but thought provoking...you can read it as you try to escape America!

The thrilling sequel to The Immune! The end of the world was only the beginning. Thirteen years have passed since the Medusa plague wiped out nearly 99 percent of the world’s population and pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. Climate change triggered by nuclear skirmishes in the last fevered days of civilization decimated agriculture and livestock, and the hardened survivors battle for what few resources remain. Will Callahan is one of the lucky ones. In his small community in Nebraska, he and his family have access to food, clean water, weapons, and medical care.