An infectious primal hunger. Some discoveries are better left buried…James would much rather hang out with his friends than go hunting with his father, the survivalist. What starts out as another uneventful trip, however, takes a hard turn for the worse when they’re attacked without explanation. Panic stricken and running for his life, trying to get back to his family, James and a handful of other survivors are forced to fight an enemy they cannot beat on grounds they do not know. The odds are not in their favor, but if they want to survive, they must venture deep into the deadly unknown, right down to the heart of his ravenous horde…The Complete Dead State series is an action-packed survival story focusing on fortitude, strength of character, and the power of community. If you like spine-crawling suspense mixed with post-apocalyptic grit, this is an edge-of-your seat tale you can’t afford to miss!The Complete Dead State is perfect for fans of David Simpson, Christopher Artinian, and Peter Meredith. Grab all five full-length thrillers, plus the Novella (Catalyst), at 60% off and start binge reading the series today!

    

    The war won’t unfold the way you think.Hardened warriors like Logan, Skylar and Riker have endured the worst, and now they’re putting it all on the line to take the country back. But they can’t do it alone. They’ll need help.In a David vs. Goliath battle, who will finally control America?What our patriots are attempting next will test their grit, their fortitude and their desire to triumph over the invading hordes. Not everyone will survive, however, for far-reaching conflicts such as these are ugly and cruel, and they always extract their pound of flesh.The Dark Days of the After series comes to an end in this hard-hitting, but deeply poignant final chapter advanced readers are now calling “Ryan Schow’s finest book by far!”

    As an air marshal, he doesn’t have time for commitment. When his plane emergency lands outside of Eugene, Oregon, he knows it’s the beginning of the end. When he sets off on his own, he’s ready to face the future alone. Rescuing a kid isn’t part of his plan. When you have nothing left, can you find the will to survive? Dani’s only fifteen, but she’s no stranger to hardship. When the pangs of hunger drive her to the brink, Dani makes the difficult choice to steal. She knows she might get caught. She never expects a stranger to save her. The end of the world brings out the best and worst in all of us. Colt and Dani will have to fight to survive in this post-apocalyptic world. Joining forces isn’t part of the plan, but desperate times call for desperate measures. With danger around every corner, will they find the strength to trust each other? Or will the past ruin any chance of seeing the future? The EMP is only the beginning. The Chaos Trilogy comprises books four through six in the After the EMP series, a post-apocalyptic thriller series following ordinary people trying to survive after a geomagnetic storm destroys the nation’s power grid. It can be read first, although reading in series oder will provide a more complete timeline.

    Even worse, this lifelong prepper has almost all of his preparing supplies at home in Atlanta! Torn between heading home, and rescuing his daughter at College, he opts to "bug-in", as everyone in the family has been trained, and knows to get to the river house if anything bad happens. He's terrified he'll pass them if he goes in either direction. Instead, he decides to pull together the full-time residents of this weekend community, even though only a small percentage of the homeowners are on the peninsula when the lights go out. What follows is a tale of leadership, survival, combat, romance and heartbreak as this veteran combat engineer uses every trick up his sleeve to hold off those that would take what they want from the community of Rock Harbor, VA. As the days go by, he builds an unexpectedly resilient team of retirees, stay-at-home mom's, Honduran construction workers and some neighbors from around the peninsula. This book of survival has some fishing stories, some romance, lots of things that go BOOM, and a group of interesting and diverse characters who are all just trying to survive when the United States is attacked. He builds a pack of Sheepdogs to protect the residents against the Wolves, who are constantly trying to conquer this seemingly unprotected community.

    Unfortunately, it was not the same for everyone. There were three types of people. The first had no diseases, the second had the flu, and the third were busy fostering a zombie virus that was going to bring the nation to its knees. This story isn't about heroes, there are no guarantees. This is a story about Mike and his family, and what they have to endure to survive. If they want to see another day they are going to need the help of their neighbors and friends. The situations leaving the main characters in the depths of hell are only outweighed by the comical situations that they get put in. There's no telling what or who is going to survive. Those that survive must fight or flight and in some cases do both. Civilization will be something new when dawn's light falls on the Earth for the second day of the apocalypse.

    

     Ellie Feldman is on the way home from a business trip, looking forward to seeing her kids, when her plane is grounded on the tarmac in Hawaii. No one wants to tell her what's going on, until finally she learns of the virulent disease spreading over the globe. Now she has to find a way to get home to her family. Back at home her ex-husband, Nick Statton, thinks his problems revolve around financial hardships and helping their children as they continue to adjust to the recent divorce and going from parent to parent with shared custody. Then he discovers there's something far worse to worry about. As the nation descends into chaos around them, she must face the challenges of being out in a society falling apart, while he and their children face those of being shut in.

    Society is broken, and most who remain have banded together in small camps and communities.Jon South is not like most other survivors.After losing his wife and son nearly two years into the pandemic, Jon now wanders the country roads and woods of rural Tennessee, a vigilante taking his revenge out on the undead monsters that took his family from him. He lives in solitary, and with nothing more to live for, he plans to die alone, sooner rather than later.But after coming to the aid of a pair of strangers out in the woods being attacked by men, Jon learns that he might have been fighting the wrong monsters the entire time.

    There are crops to plant and harvest, and animals to feed. There is the daily grind of life after a viral apocalypse where things they used to take for granted, like food, water, and safety, are no longer a given, especially with predators prowling at the perimeter of the farm. It is two against the world, and all they have is each other.

    The house needed major TLC after years of her mother’s unfortunate hoarding, which led to years of neglect. Still, it was a trip she desperately needed to get away from her obsessed ex-boyfriend, and from her upcoming exams, she wasn’t even a little ready to take.When a solar storm wipes out the power grid, Mel is thrust into a disaster she wasn’t at all prepared for, nor something she would have ever expected. Chaos erupts around her in a way no one could have seen coming.Now with nothing but a suitcase and her mother’s collection of junk, she must find a way to survive in an unfamiliar town without a friendly face in sight.Sudden Darkness is a thrilling apocalyptic novel about ordinary people who are faced with the end of the world and the collapse of society as we know it. This book is perfect for readers of EMP, CME, post-apocalyptic, and disaster fiction.*Mild language & violence.

    Just over 350,000 words) Outbreak Ruin Infested The Ark Noah’s Story Red’s Story Betty and Lennie’s Story Doctor Lazaro’s Story Echo’s Story Coco’s Story The Black Spores False Hope The Pods The Long Road No Turning Back A Friend in Need All Aboard New Hope Keep Running and The Seven Seeds of the Gods – Ancient Egypt Mankind is no longer at the top of the food chain. THE SIXTH EXTINCTION (Books 1 to 4) The Sixth Extinction is an apocalyptic tale about a pandemic that sweeps the globe, decimating the human race, leaving humanity struggling to survive. Within three weeks everything has changed. Social structure has collapsed. The police are non-existent, and the army concentrates on the cities. Gangs of yobs rule the streets. It becomes everyone for themselves. The story follows three main characters, Noah, Red and Doctor Melanie Lazaro, as well as Betty and her simpleminded grandson, and a Squad of military personnel. It follows all their journeys of self-discovery through the changing world. Noah Morgan is just an average twenty-one-year-old. He has no aspirations in life, no girlfriend, few friends, and a dead-end job. Red is a nineteen-year-old female runaway, with a sad past and a disturbing secret. Together they leave behind everything they have ever known, looking for a safe haven. Betty and her grandson Lennie are just trying to stay alive, and find somewhere safe to hide while they try to make sense of all the madness around them. The Squad is a small group of military personnel who are trying to get back to the safety of their large base – a base that holds a secret. Doctor Melanie Lazaro is working around the clock, under military supervision, in Exeter University’s Biomedical Sciences Department, trying to create a cure for the new pandemic that is turning humans back to their primordial roots, creating mindless killing machines with only one purpose − to eat. The four-part series is a fast-paced story, all set within a twenty-four-hour time frame. THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: THE FIRST THREE WEEKS (Books 1 to 4) The four part series is a prelude to The Sixth Extinction series. We get to see what happened within the first three weeks of the outbreak from the point of view of the five main characters, set out in four new books. THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: THE SQUADS FIRST THREE WEEKS (Books 1 and 2) The Sixth Extinction continues with two short prelude stories about the main military characters. We get to follow Echo and Coco as they find themselves thrown into the pandemic that is sweeping the globe. THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AMERICA (Books 1 to 9) We cross the ocean to America to see how they are coping with the infection on the other side of the world. The Story follows a group of fourteen strangers, who lived in an apartment building in the Fordham Heights area of New York City; they decide to band together, seeking shelter in a shipping container, on the back of a truck heading towards Pennsylvania. Along the way they run into other groups who will do anything to survive. There is a group of military misfits who run a small town that forces other survivors into slavery.

    John and Rachel have settled into a quiet, domestic life in Hawaii with their children. Mavis has followed in her father’s footsteps, becoming an Army Special Forces officer. When a team she is leading goes missing, John sets out in search of her and discovers a terrifying new world.

    A week later, her world was gone.Kelly, a grocery store manager in tiny Sayler Beach, California, just thought she had a bad case of the flu. But when she recovered, she found everyone else in town dead, and days-old news reports of a rapidly spreading pandemic. There’s no way of telling if anyone else has survived anywhere. Soon the power and water go out, and she’s left to scrabble if she wants to survive.She’s tough and practical, and she has an entire town’s resources at her disposal. But she’s also facing a long series of new challenges, from disposing of bodies to preserving food to dealing with packs of newly feral dogs. That’s in addition to keeping the balance in her own brain, which has been a lifelong struggle.And as she works to find food, to stay clean, to stay sane, to figure out what happened, and finally to search the world outside her hometown, the question hangs over her head: of all of humanity, is she now the LAST?

    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.Anchorage EMPAnchorage, the largest city in Alaska, faces a storm unlike any other.For years, faithful police officer Eva Bekhor has toiled Alaska’s tough soil and raised a family of survivalists. The sudden explosion of an EMP bomb hurls her and the rest of country back to the Stone Age. Pushed to her limit, Eva must pull out every stop to keep her kin alive. Meanwhile, a foreign threat rises from the rumble of a crippled society. Winter draws near. Will Eva’s preparation be enough or will she be buried beneath the snows of chaos?HideawayLosing power was only the beginning, now one couple must work together to surviveJames and Marla Weller are preparing for a relaxing weekend, when an unexpected blackout spreads far beyond their St. Louis suburb and starts a devastating chain reaction. But the disabled power grid was only the beginning of a national nightmare as their vehicles and cell phones won’t function either. A series of building explosions rock downtown, leading to a mandatory evacuation. Amid the chaos, the young couple must make a decision on where to go. A possible solution emerges when a self-proclaimed survivalist offers them refuge in his remote cabin far from the city and away from the chaos. But James and Marla soon discover that survival isn’t as clear as they think, and that escape can lead to dangers all its own.