Dystopian World

Twelve-year-old Bird lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist. He knows not to ask many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird's mother.

"The New World Order" is book four in the "Fifth Phase" series. A series of economic, political, and global terror events has sent the United States cataclysmically crashing into chaos. While the America might consider itself immune to the same axiomatic truths that consumed the world’s mightiest empires… …it's not. Tom and Morgan Crenshaw, owners and operators of a Chicago area coin shop, have found themselves embroiled in the anarchy that has accompanied the decline of the once powerful US. And as the country finds itself faltering in the fifth phase of a civilization’s lifecycle,...

In a flash, the United States of America is sent back to the Stone Age. Three months without power has plunged the nation into chaos. Without technology, humanity is crumbling. Starvation spreads while brutal gangs rise, dominating in a savage fight for control.

✤ A gripping supernatural thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. ✤ What if everything you thought you knew about History was a lie? When archaeologist Viviane Robert receives a desperate midnight call from her father, she has no idea her life is about to change forever. Hours later, he's kidnapped before her eyes, but not before revealing a shocking secret hidden within an ancient Sumerian clay tablet: for millennia, a powerful group known as the Guardians has been waging a secret war against the mysterious Brotherhood of the Serpent. From Rome to...

Infected with the deadliest plague known to humanity. The world must unite to combat and defeat a parasitic mutation that has engulfed the world for thousands of years with its incurable disease of death, destruction, division, and chaos. Immerse yourself in this alternate history of how humanity fought, struggled, and survived an abomination created to infiltrate, deceive, and destroy the planet and humanity to bring the world into a purgatory hell of darkness and death.

Predicting the future is easy. But which future? The possibilities are endless. The modern world ended in 2051. That was ten years ago, when Tony was eleven years old. Unbearable heat and frequent superstorms have rendered Arkansas unlivable. A refugee from Colorado, Tony is one of only three people left in the camp at Kings River. He should have gone north with the others. Why is he still here? Hannah thought she would live on the Missouri farm where she grew up forever. Now, she knows she must leave. Not because of the raiders. As far as Hannah knows, the raiders have already gone. The ...

2nd Edition In a subgenre the author refers to as dystopian espionage, Dark Agendas of Power follows the adventures of a resistance fighting against a burgeoning tyrannical world order in the near future. A multinational clandestine resistance has come together to fight against a new global cabal. Spear-headed by their top operatives, Cory Bryson and Amit Rubin, they seek to reveal this cabal for what it is: a secret combination slowly eroding the freedoms of the world to fit their power agendas. As time is running out, and new enemies threaten to take the conflict to open warfare, Bryson ...

With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a well-stocked safe house with other onetime members of the Concord police force. But with time ticking away before the asteroid makes landfall, Hank’s safety is only relative, and his only relative—his sister Nico—isn’t safe. Soon, it’s clear that there’s more than one earth-shattering revelation on the horizon, and it’s up to Hank to solve the puzzle before time runs out...for everyone.

Airwaves: A Wayfarers Story follows Dr. Abby Eaton, an on-air personality for AM 63, a pirate radio station on a fading AM band. Simultaneously, the IW2, a new internet, emerges as a free and open alternative to the heavily censored, hyper-algorithmic ALL web. The IW2 resurrects the spirit of the old internet, prioritizing the wants and needs of the people over control and censorship. As the ALL World Order targets both AM 63 and the IW2, Abby faces intense challenges. Her 13-year-old daughter becomes entangled with a boy on the IW2, a relationship that could put her in grave danger. How ...

Before the Fall, Obsidian Corporation had Agents, and Teledyne Industries had Specialists. Both were deadly. In the Northeast Sector of North America, deep in Obsidian-controlled territory, Teledyne had Mr. Smith, and people fled, just on the rumor he was close by. Now, 20 years after the fall, former Obsidian executives have formed a tenuous truce with the former assassin to save New Toronto. Smith would have happily lived out his life alone, but when Smith sees that something needs doing, he gets it done.

By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society. Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt—enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.

They’ll protect what’s theirs - or die trying. The McDonald clan have learned their lessons the hard way these last months. Shane and Jodi finally realize they must keep their reunited family close and protect their own above all others to survive in this new post-apocalyptic reality. The repairs on the home are complete, solar panels installed, and the now operational pump means they won’t have to continue collecting rainwater for the foreseeable future.

A portal to another world. A destination to danger. When Kaite placed her life on hold to return home and care for her sick aunt, she wasn’t expecting anything more than long days full of work, drama, and exasperation. But when a mysterious amulet practically fell into her lap in an explosion of light, all of her expectations flew right out the window. To her surprise, Kaite soon finds herself in a strange land and wrapped up in a war with her arrival at the very heart of it. Can Kaite survive this strange new world and find her way back home? Or after everything, does she even want to? ...

The horde is coming. Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a Huntress anymore, but she doesn't run. With her knives in hand and her companions at her side, she will not falter, whether fighting for her life or Fade's love.

The final book in the Ruins series! Escape at what cost? Trapped in a new horror, the survivors struggle to regain their freedom. Is there life outside, and will any of them live to see it?

She holds the key to humanity’s survival—if she can unlock the truth buried inside her own mind. In a near-future Earth ravaged by unstoppable disease, the last hope for survival lies in the stars. The Rangatiratanga, the Absolute Sovereignty of New Zealand, launches three Galaxy Cruisers toward distant exomoons—each ship a final lifeline for the human race. But one by one, the ships are lost. River, a brilliant but isolated prodigy, may be the only one who can stop the destruction. She is unknowingly bound to a Māori prophecy—an ancient myth colliding with quantum reality—that ...

Earth is dying, but I hold the key to its survival. The people of Earth thought we wouldn’t survive. Why else would they only send their criminals with a ship full of aliens? We proved them wrong. All we have to do is cross the galaxy and return home before Earth freezes to death in less than three months. Easy, right? The unknowns of the universe, like meteor showers, wormholes, and space pirates, are nothing compared to what we face on our own ship. With our own people. Our salvation has never been so close…yet so far away. Will we make it back to Earth in time to save not only those ...

When an EMP brings the United States to its knees on Halloween, Lance Cooper must rescue his family and fight to survive amid the terror descending upon the city.

Zeddy's search for his father, Zane, finally leads to Zamira. After Zeddy relates dreams of travelling back in time, he and his mom, Zadie survive many adventures on a strange island in the Bermuda Triangle. There they meet and discover that The Count of Monte Cristo is Zeddy's grandfather while being attacked by Dragons and children Zombies, including uncharacteristically, Merlin. They rescue King Arthur, The Count of Monte Cristo and restore Merlin's sanity with the help of The Professor, Zachary Zenith. Along the way they encounter an entertaining version of Sherlock Holmes and even his ...

Abel survived the apocalypse, but drugs nearly killed him. He scratches out a living scavenging for anything of value until he witnesses something incredible...the Wizard of the Wasteland. When Abel joins the travelling showman, passing off pre-apocalypse technology as objects of magic and intrigue, they come upon a horrifying sight: a group of children enslaved by the brutal drug gang The Family. As he and the wizard take on the challenge of freeing the slaves, Abel must resist the temptations of a world without hope.