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Epic Apocalypse - Apocalyptic Horror Boxed Set - 6+ Bundle


Mark Tufo - 2013
    Today’s top selling horror authors bring to you this boxed set of six full length apocalyptic tales and a teaser from award winning author Joe McKinney. Turn the lights off, enjoy the ride and find out what is lurking under your bed.Mark Tufo – Zombie FalloutHeath Stallcup – Return Of The Phoenix: Monster SquadJohn O’Brien – A New World: ChaosArmand Rosamilia – Darlene Bobich: Zombie KillerJoe McKinney – Dead Wait Teaser from Bram Stoker Award winning authorShawn Chesser – Trudge: Surviving The Zombie ApocalypseJames Cook- No Easy Hope: Surviving The Dead

Driver 8: A Post-Apocalyptic Novel


G. Michael Hopf - 2017
    Out of the ashes, small pockets of survivors banded together to forge new societies in the few areas not ravaged by the nuclear holocaust. One community has not only risen but thrived. Known as The Collective, they pride themselves on an orderly system of government with a functioning infrastructure. The citizenry owe their success to their founder The Number One, who presides over them with an iron fist. Life in The Collective centers on contribution and purpose. All are assigned responsibilities and if one cannot fulfill them, they are cast out. The most coveted but dangerous responsibility is that of a driver. Drivers ride the lonely and barren roads scavenging and exploring the outer reaches. Over the years only one has emerged as a legend and his name is Driver 8.

The Commune


Charlie Dalton - 2019
     You’re still alive. Will you be tomorrow? Ten years ago, the world ended. A virus swept the planet clean, wiping out 97% of the world’s population. Only the wary survived. We gather our resources in communes clinging to the harshest environments on Earth. Food is scarce and the well’s running dry. Our days are numbered. Then a girl staggers from the desert, her brains fried by the sun. She rambles about technology, a place of safety the Rages never reached. Only the elders recognize what she describes. A place we call the City Then the Reavers attack. They destroy our home and everything we’ve built. We wander the desert, lost, and without hope. And still the girl remembers that place. Does the City really exist? Can she lead us to it? Can we rebuild what we lost? Our journey begins, but we’re not the only ones making it. You will love The Commune, the first pulse-pounding post-apocalyptic thriller in the After the Fall series. Get it now!

Cough


Jacqueline Druga - 2015
    In an instant, she watches in horror as people from her small town spiral into a coughing fit and seconds later, drop to their death. Within minutes, cars crash, helicopters fly overhead and the military rolls in setting up a quarantine of the town. This was only the beginning.With the town in chaos, Macy must focus on protecting and keeping her two young sons safe from catching the deadly virus. But how? By the time she processes what all is happening, it is too late. The virus is everywhere. The only hope and greatest chance for a cure lies within the work of Charles Kimble. However, even he faces defeat as the virus pushes man to the brink of extinction.In an attempt to save mankind, the world takes desperate measures. Quarantines and internment camps are initiated, and cities are closed down. As law, order and government structures crumble, people are left to the own battles and resources. Can one mother save her children from something caught as easily as taking a breath? And can she, like the human race, hold on until the virus runs its course.

Officer of the Watch


D.W. McAliley - 2015
    Captain Joe Tillman, a retired Navy Seal and Officer of the Watch witnesses the attack firsthand and the bloodshed that begins shortly afterwards. Meanwhile, Eric and a group of fellow park visitors in North Carolina are thrust together and must face the first days of desperate chaos as they try to find a safe haven to ride out the coming storm. As modern life and the social order it brings begins to break down, each of these two groups must come face to face with the brutality that resides deep within us all.

Apocalypse Orphan (The Fractured Earth Saga Book 1)


Tim Allen - 2016
     With no way to stop the impending doomsday, the world descends into panic and anarchy. Massive transport ships are built to colonize the moon, and evacuation of a chosen few begins. After a shuttle mission to study the approaching comet goes awry, Wolf is forced into cryogenic deep sleep, and the onboard computer assumes control of the ship. Wolf awakens 50,000 years later to a wildly different earth. Endowed with incredible strength, he finds himself caught in a war between primitive tribes, and his survival depends on Syn, an advanced computer intelligence who has fallen in love with him. Will Wolf be able to help restore Earth to its past glory or is civilization doomed to fail?

After the Virus


Simon Archer - 2020
    Sure, he’s an engineer who served his country, but, well, when the virus hit, he soon finds himself alone in a nearly empty world.And that’s the key. Nearly empty.And there’s no one left with the technical know-how to make the world run again.Well, no one but Henry.And for humanity to survive, he will have to rebuild society out of the motliest crew of survivors the world has ever seen.It might be impossible, but at the same time, Henry has always loved a challenge.

Apocalypse Library: The Ultimate Collection of World-Ending Horror


Iain Rob Wright - 2017
    Save over 50% compared to buying the titles separately. What would you do if the world ended? Could you trust your neighbours? Your family? Yourself? Step into the apocalypse with 9 full-length novels by British horror master Iain Rob Wright. From Flesh-eating zombies to world-ending experiments, this collection has the apocalypse in all flavors. Get a quick peek at the books included below. Ravaged World Trilogy 1. Sea Sick - Something man-made and evil has escaped aboard the luxury cruise liner, The Spirit of Kirkpatrick. There's nowhere to escape in the middle of the ocean. 2. Ravage - Everyone seems to be getting sick. Then they change. Follow Rick's journey as he struggles to survive at a hilltop amusement park during the end of the world. 3. Savage - Conclusion to the epic story beginning with Sea Sick and ending with a fight for humanity's survival at a fortified pier. Hell on Earth Saga 4. The Gates - All over the world strange gates have appeared, and something awful is about to come through. 5. Legion - The world is at war and the enemy is getting stronger. Humanity must win or become extinct. The Final Winter 6. The Final Winter - It's snowing all over the world. Something evil lurks in the cold, something ancient. Something unimaginable. Tar 7. Tar - In the Australian outback, a science experiment goes awry. Now the world is disappearing and time is about to run out. 2389 8. 2389 - Communication has just been lost with humanity's biggest amusement park, built on the moon. Someone needs to go up there and check things out. Animal Kingdom 9. Animal Kingdom - The animals have changed. No longer are they willing to be pets or dinner. Now we are the pets. We are the dinner. Humanity just fell to the bottom of the food chain. "Iain Rob Wright scares the Hell out of me." - Jack Kilborn, author of Origin and Afraid. "Iain Rob Wright is sick and twist." - David Moody, author of the Autumn series.

Viral Misery: Book One


Thomas A. Watson - 2017
    The bird flu out of China has mutated. Now able to latch on and replicate within humans, the virus will spread swiftly throughout the world. When you spread a virus before you even know you have it, everyone becomes a carrier. There is no preparation, and there is no cure. You can only hope that you are one of the few who are immune, or can survive long enough to fight. Wendy and Arthur have spent their lives in service to others. Having raised one child, and learned to live off the land, their only wish is for their son to give them grandchildren. They want to retire in comfort, knowing that they are self-sufficient and able to take care of themselves. Having never been apart for more than a few nights, Wendy has the opportunity to take a well deserved ladies vacation. Little do they know that their entire world will change in an instant, and they ll be left alone to live, or to die, a thousand miles apart.

The Awakened


Sara Elizabeth Santana - 2015
    That is, until the Z virus hits. It wipes out a third of the population in a matter of weeks. If that weren’t frightening enough, the bodies of the victims disappear and suddenly reappear, awakened from their dead state. They're faster, smarter, and they work together to get the one thing they crave - human flesh.The United States is in a panic and the government decides to do the unthinkable: bomb every major city across the country overrun with the Awakened.Now Zoey is on the run, with her dad and Ash, desperate to find a place of safety amongst the ruined remains of the country.

The Loudest Silence


Kate L. Mary - 2018
    Then the virus came, turning the world’s population into zombies, and he became so much more. They were only kids, but he saved her. Watched over her. Kept her alive. And he’s been doing the same thing every day since. After living the apocalypse for nine years, Regan thought they’d experienced every kind of loss and terror imaginable. But when a new group starts wreaking havoc in the Oklahoma wastelands where they live, Regan and Kellan are faced with a new set of horrors.When they cross paths with a teenage girl, offering to help seems like the right thing to do. But Regan and Kellan soon discover that lending aid to the girl very well could lead to their undoing.

The Pawn in the Portal


Nick Cole - 2016
    Ward, a tier-one operator turned mercenary, has just flung himself off the cargo deck of a doomed C-130. Now he’s out of the Drop Zone and evading the undead as a terrible new breed of hunter enters the Wyrd. But these new, faster predators might not be the only thing to fear in an apocalypse beset by zombies, nukes and killer A.I.’s. One of the last warriors of a collapsed government is planning on putting up some big numbers in this final, ultimate game of Survivor, until he finds a mysterious new companion... a stranger dressed in black.

Prepper's Apocalypse


A.J. Newman - 2020
    Surviving the crash only caused them to confront the chaos of the apocalypse head-on. Their fellow survivors were helpless and lacked the skills to survive. Tom, his sister, and their Grandma survive the perilous trip from San Francisco to their ranch in Southern Oregon using their prepper skills to keep them alive during the anarchy around them.

Touch (Book One): A Zombie Sci-Fi Thriller


Steven Jenkins - 2021
    

Rupture


David Moody - 2020
    The survivors of numerous battles are brought together through a series of ancient clockwork rooms, and their individual experiences combine to paint a picture of a multiverse on the brink of total annihilation. Gods and mortals fight alongside each other on the streets and among the stars, struggling to hold back the armies of demons doing the bidding of The Bleed.Whole worlds are lost. Others are sacrificed. Thousands are ready to fight, but millions more offer themselves up to the gods, praying that The Rapture will bring them salvation. In the midst of it all just a handful of survivors scattered across the multiverse are aware of what's at stake and how they can avoid Armageddon. But with the odds stacked against them and impossible distances between them, will thy be able to come together and turn the bloody tide against The Bleed?