Mystery Survival Fiction

February 1941. Valentine's Day dawns bloody in the desert when a catastrophic sandstorm separates Lillian Stiller and Roy Sawyer from Jack Stiller. Stranded and desperate, they stumble upon the fabled Oasis of the Love - a haven shrouded in legend and rumored to be cursed. But as they delve into its secrets, they realize they're not alone... and the greatest treasure may be their own survival. Discover the fate of these two travelers in this gripping desert survival story with ancient secrets. If you love adventurous archaeology themes like in Indiana Jones novels, and enjoy authors such as...

This is the story of the O'Neill family from Lawrence, Kansas. Jim, a 45 year- old man with two children; Jay, 13 and Adrianna 11. The kids are out of school for summer vacation. They are setting out by car to find the ancestral home of Jim's grandfather, who lived in Sterling, Illinois. A diary which was found in Jim's grandfather's house in Lawrence, revealed that there was a treasure to be found on the property of the Sterling homestead. The treasure can be found by solving riddles and clues. Jim's wife died in a terrible car crash a year and a half ago. One month before the accident, ...

Crybaby A Gripping Thriller of Survival and Vengeance What happens when a ten-tonne Indian elephant goes rogue in the heart of rural India? Once revered as a sacred temple elephant, Crybaby was stolen, brutalized, and left for dead. But he didn’t die. Now, he’s become something else. Something terrifying. Something unstoppable. Villages lie flattened in his wake. Roads are shattered. Crops trampled. Witnesses speak in hushed voices of an enormous shadow slipping back into the jungle—untouchable, untraceable. To the locals, he is no longer just an elephant. He is a living ghost. A ...

When the silo’s alarm signals all-out trouble, Summer Lane and her friends jump into action. What they face next is beyond their wildest imagination. To survive, they’ll have to enlist the help of the Nomad and together, shed what’s left of their humanity. In this ultimate clash to the death, Summer will need to summon all her skills as a leader and as a warrior. Otherwise, the silo might be lost forever when an old nemesis returns with a vengeance.

Shay, one of the rare survivors of the epidemic sweeping the UK, has surrendered herself to the Army because she believes she's a carrier of the deadly disease. Along with other survivors, she unwillingly becomes a test subject in an effort to find a cure. When the lab where she's being held is attacked, Shay and a few others escape - with the help of Dr. Alex Cross, Kai's hated stepfather and Callie's father. Alex is the leader of the cult-like group Multiverse. Their agenda is murky, but genetic engineering might be one of their goals.

A congressman's daughter who has to be perfect. A star quarterback with a secret. A guy who's tired of being ignored. A clarinet player who's done trying to fit in. An orphaned rebel who wants to teach someone a lesson. A guy who wants people to see him, not his religion. They couldn't be more different, but before the morning's over, they'll all be trapped in a school that's been rocked by a bombing. When they hear that someone inside is the bomber, they'll also be looking to one another for answers.

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters...Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost - how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers...to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small.

Liv Whitlock desperately needs to change the trajectory of her life . . . so she steals her perfect sister’s identity. Liv starts to rewrite her story, winning a prestigious internship on a movie set filming in Alaska, and finds herself on a luxury yacht alongside pop star Paris Grace, actress sisters Effie and Miri Knight, Olympic gymnast Rosalind Torres, and social media influencer Celia Jones. Liv tries to find common ground with her famous companions, but just as the group starts to bond, a violent storm wrecks their vessel, stranding them on an island in the North Pacific Ocean.

The sac isn't shrinking, but those alive are! New faces are introduced as old friends are trying their best to remain alive! Who will survive, who will perish? Find out in book 5 of Zombies on the Block: Survival Isn't for All. Book 6 continues the chaos, the mayhem, and the hell unleashed. Don't forget that these dead never get satisfied, and their rage knows no end. The lucky will see another day as the living—the less fortunate will roam the Earth full of hunger and rage. A zombie no one expected and no one was ready for.

There’s a killer on the loose on the Titanic  -  and the only people who know are four kids. Within both the luxury of the cabins and the dark underbelly of the engine rooms, Paddy, Sophie, Juliana, and Alfie have found themselves tangled in a maze of mysteries, each one deadlier than the next.

World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there. At least, this is what Juneau has been told her entire life. When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war.

Bobby Astor is a fearless New York hedge-fund gunslinger on the verge of making his biggest killing ever. But everything changes when his father, the venerable chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, is murdered along with the head of the Federal Reserve in a brazen, inexplicable attack on the South Lawn of the White House. In the moments before his death, Astor's father sends Bobby a mystifying text message…a single word that Bobby soon realizes offers the only clue to the identity of his father's killer and the terrifying motivation behind the attack.

When Tobin Decker disappears on a trip to the Boundary Waters in the lake country of northern Minnesota, the only potential witness is a young woman with a dark past. But she isn't talking. Georgia Calvo has spent most of her life trying to rewrite her own backstory. At two, she witnessed her own father's murder, though she remembers none of it. For years afterward, she lived like a fugitive, perpetually caught between the painful truth and a life-defining lie. As an adult, Georgia still distrusts the police, but the pressure on her to talk is mounting. What she does know is that something ...

A secret island. A sadistic society. And the woman who defies all odds to bring it down. Yesterday, Valoria’s worst problem was getting her sister to school on time. Today, she’s a slave in a perverse world. And an even worse fate awaits her sister if Valoria can’t become a cold-blooded killer. On a private island, the world’s most powerful people recreate their deviant fantasies in cosplay of Ancient Rome. Forced to fight and maim for other’s enjoyment, Valoria’s only hope of survival is to embrace the ruthless teachings of the cold, watchful man assigned to train her.

With deadly clouds of radiation swooping in from the wasteland of American port cities, Paul Edwards and his father-in-law, Buck, seek shelter in a spectacular government bunker, the likes of which has never been seen. They've succeeded in finding safety from the dangers outside, but in a world without rules, trust can be a deadly thing.

A lost treasure of unimaginable value awaits those daring enough to find it. Former Green Beret Ryden Spass is looking for a new start and travels to the Philippines to visit his estranged brother, figuring it’s time to reconnect with family again and enjoy a long-earned vacation in the sunny tropics. But things don’t turn out quite as he expected when his brother goes missing. Falsely accused of murder, Ryden finds himself on the run from corrupt cops and if that isn’t enough, he ends up with ruthless gangsters after discovering his brother’s involvement in a scheme to obtain lost ...

Plain Jane Flowers is a 17-year-old summer camp counselor. This is her second year at Camp Sunshine - only this time, there won't be any campers. Jane will be competing with other counselors in a series of challenges that will test her physical strength, endurance, and mental acuity. If Jane wins, her entire life will change. Jane teams up with some of her fiercest competitors, but soon, mistrust causes a fracture within her alliance. Someone is sabotaging the games. The stakes have never been higher, yet quitting isn’t an option. Jane will have to play the game in order to survive.

Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports listeners to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive. In an utterly one-of-a-kind blend of fiction and history, a master storyteller explores the mystery and life of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body.

Bick Kidd and his globe-trotting siblings Beck, Storm and Tommy may have completed their first treasure hunt after their father was lost at sea, but their kidnapped mother is still in the hands of nasty pirates. Their search for a rescue plan takes them down the Nile river in Africa, where they'll have to navigate everything from Egyptian pyramids in the desert to wet-and-wild jungles—not to mention life-threatening encounters with wilderness diseases, angry hippos and some seriously bad guys—in order to find the treasure and save the day.

Civilization has finally reached the breaking point. During the coldest winter on record, an EMP sends America back into the Stone Age, and a family’s strength is tested. When disaster strikes, Keith Jameson and Ted Holder flee to their remote homestead with their families. Jack and his family find sanctuary in their cabin in a small, remote town, hidden deep in the forest. Little does Jack know the blizzard will be the least of his problems.