Mystery Survival Fiction

International best-selling author Anthony Horowitz's short story collection expands the universe of teen spy Alex Rider with more thrilling action, espionage, and pulse-pounding heroics. Inspired by Horowitz's millions of fans worldwide, Secret Weapon expands the world of Alex Rider with more thrilling action and pulse-pounding heroics. Follow Alex as he infiltrates a terrorist hideout in Afghanistan, fights to prevent an assassination attempt at a ski resort over Christmas, and much more!

The NPCs of Minecraft barely had time to celebrate their victory over the spider queen and the king of the skeletons before terrible new crimes broke the hard-earned peace. Inexplicable fires are breaking out under mysterious circumstances, the flames destroying more and more land with every tick of the CPU. Gameknight999 knows something is terribly wrong but has no idea who is responsible or how to stop them.

After a plane is forced to make an emergency landing in a remote area, the surviving crew and passengers must wait until a rescue team arrives. But they soon discover they are not alone in the wilderness, and the rescue team is not showing up anytime soon.

USA TODAY and #1 AMAZON bestselling author Jeremy Bates presents the complete collection of the award-winning Midnight Book Club short novels. With fast-paced plots and stunning twists, these stories offer close to 1,000 pages of heart-racing suspense, action, and terror from one of today's most exciting voices in horror. Black Canyon Twelve-year-old Brian Garrett embarks on a weekend camping trip in Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison, hoping to reconnect with his distant parents. But when his father suffers a brutal accident deep in the chasm, survival takes a sinister turn. Over ...

Lily, Simon, and Michael are still trapped in their Minecraft game, but with new friends and a better understanding of their arch enemy, Mr. Anarchy, they're getting closer to finding a way home. But before they can fight the evil griefer and escape the game, the friends need to replenish their resources - and that means trekking deeper into the Overworld. When their mining party is attacked and hostile mobs reveal surprising new powers, it looks like the end for the trio - and for all their friends in town.

When newly appointed Sheriff Shea Callahan and her college friends plan a girls' weekend in a secluded cabin on Misty Mountain, they expect laughter, wine, and memories of their last carefree days together. But the weekend takes a dark turn when a group of strangers notices their matching "Girls' Weekend" T-shirts at a small-town gas station. What begins as innocent curiosity quickly spirals into a harrowing game of cat and mouse as the women find themselves stalked and terrorized by men who seem to know every move they make. With the clock ticking and their lives on the line, Shea must ...

BRAND NEW COVERS, same great series! He never needed anyone…until he met her. When an Amish youth is killed in a suspicious hunting accident, Deputy Caitlin Flagler suspects his death is tied to the “Doomsday Preppers” group that has settled in Hunters Ridge. In digging for the answers, she meets Austin Young, a newcomer who seems to have more secrets than the elusive head of the sprawling compound. Caitlin’s relentless pursuit of the truth puts her in the crosshairs of a violent extremist. Austin must find a way to protect her and preserve his cover. When romantic sparks fly, ...

Savannah’s friend Tamara Grimaldi was fourteen when her mom was murdered, and the body dumped along the side of Interstate 65 in Indiana. Since then, Grimaldi has kept an eye out for her mother’s killer, first as a homicide detective in Nashville, and now as the chief of police for the city of Columbia, Tennessee, a few miles off I-65.

After container ships carrying black-market nuclear bombs are detonated in American port cities, millions are killed, and the country is thrown into panic. In Greenwood, Nebraska, Paul Edwards learns about the devastating terrorist attacks on the news. As the power grid goes down, his fear is magnified by the knowledge that his wife and daughter are a thousand miles away in Atlanta.

Six months after surviving the horrors of the Olympic wilderness, Dr. Elise Holloway is pulled back into the heart of a growing conspiracy. Hunted by the shadowy Kestrel Foundation and haunted by what she discovered, Elise must face secrets buried deep beneath the forests, where ancient guardians and human greed collide. From abandoned Cold War labs to lost subterranean ruins, Elise races against time to expose the truth — and to survive forces that will stop at nothing to silence her. Bigfoot: Echoes in Stone is the chilling, action-packed sequel to Shadows in the Timberline, perfect for...

Ripped from the headlines, the explosive Trackers saga is a realistic depiction of what an EMP attack and the aftermath might look like from one of the genre's leading voices, USA Today best-selling author and former Homeland Security disaster mitigation officer Nicholas Sansbury Smith. This box set includes the entire four-book Trackers series with over 30 hours of post-apocalyptic survival fiction and action. This box set includes Trackers, Trackers 2: The Hunted, Trackers 3: The Storm, and Trackers 4: The Damned.

Paranormal Women’s Fiction from bestsellers JR Rain and HP Mallory! Charlie: Things in Misty Hollow are bad. So bad, in fact, that we’ve left the Hollow to seek shelter from Swamp Thing in the freezing cold of the Faerie land of Winter. Now, you might wonder why we’re seeking refuge in Winter, which is currently ruled by the evil would-be queen, Janara, and you’d be right to ask. Unfortunately, Fox Aspen, otherwise known as Prince Reynard of the Autumn Court, was nearly fatally wounded by Swamp Thing. In his weakened state, the only portal he could open was to Winter. So, here we ...

It has been a year since the initial outbreak of an infection resulting from a failed terrorist attack. No corner of the globe was spared. Millions simply died during the early days of the outbreak, many more survived with most of those survivors turned into permanently brain-damaged feral creatures. All forms of modern society had collapsed, governments no longer functioned, and electric lights and running water become a thing of the past. A handful of survivors with natural immunity to the virus are alone in a world that now belongs to the infected. Hunter Ashcroft, a wounded vet of the ...

After her exploits in Tunisia, Jo Rivers knows she’ll never lead a normal life. She also can’t move on until she grasps the unexpected evolution of her mathematical gift and confronts her unresolved feelings after meeting Noble. With Kai undercover, Noble is the only one who has the answers Jo needs. There’s just one small problem: Noble has vanished, leaving only a coded message in the stars. When Rafael, a friend from Jo’s days in China, goes missing, it coincides with a new PSS assignment involving a potentially catastrophic satellite breakdown.

Stolen life. Given fangs. Fate roars in midnight woods. I awoke reborn—a damsel turned wolf, with secrets lurking beneath every moonlit shadow. Blake, with eyes stormier than thunderclouds, had saved me—and himself. Alpha with a heart of stone and fire, driven by loss yet guided by instincts. The pack offered safety, but Blake's past cried for vengeance. His touch, forbidden and intoxicating, whispered promises of destiny. I, the once fragile human, now became his fiercest ally. Between blood vendettas and tangled loyalties, desire ignited a treacherous dance. Marcus entered—a rival ...

With a four-legged companion and no food in the pantry, Grant Walton faces an uphill battle. His wife is still missing; downtown is a smoldering crater; and radiation is killing more people every day. Torn between searching for his wife and gearing up for what's sure to come, Grant is forced to put more than his morals to the test. Leah Walton escaped a nuclear bomb that flattened her hospital and vaporized her friends. Now she's racing to find her husband miles away. She'll have to rely on the kindness of strangers to survive and hope none of them kill her in the process.

After camping in Rocky Mountain National Park, Jake and his friends travel to the Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado. Exploring the heart of the dunes, they stumble upon something both unexpected and dangerous. Through more twists and turns, Jake’s friendships and integrity are tested by choices that will demand smarts and courage.

Chaos and destruction are on a collision course with the Critical Response Team. And the assassin hunters are about to become the hunted. Cal Shepard thought he and colleague Derrick Nolan were finally heading home after a lengthy recon trip around Southeast Asia. But when their small charter plane is forced to land on a remote tropical island west of Thailand, they and the other passengers are thrust into a cat-and-mouse game of survival against a master assassin and his cadre of trainees. With an upcoming international trade delegation set to take place in Myanmar, it soon becomes evident...

Ever since her ex-boyfriend spread lies about her, Becca Chandler is suddenly getting all the guys - the ones she doesn't want. Then she saves Chris Merrick from a beating in the school parking lot. Chris is different. Way different: He can control water - just like his brothers can control fire, wind, and earth. They're powerful. Dangerous. Marked for death. And now that she knows the truth, so is Becca.

Cal Shepard and his elite black-ops team thought they were embarking on a quick retrieval mission in Africa. Until an EMP device is activated and severs their cord back to civilization. After receiving an urgent mission prompt from Perseus, Cal Shepard and the Critical Response Team are off to the remote wilderness of eastern Namibia to retrieve a downed Russian satellite. Only this is no ordinary satellite...it’s equipped with a weaponized EMP device that the Kremlin wants back at any cost. Just before reaching the crash site, the EMP is activated by a tribal militant in the Kalahari ...