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Ashes, Ashes #1


Karyn Folan - 2016
    After a nuclear bomb levels Washington, DC, a teen embarks on a treacherous 200-mile trek through a harrowing wasteland populated by desperate survivors to get his disabled sister to safety.

Intentional Darkness: Alexandreia Bennett: An EMP Story


Rh Fox - 2018
    As a teacher, she’s determined. As a mother . . . she’s unstoppable. Alexandreia went to work expecting a normal day in her classroom. The last seventeen years had taught her that expecting the unexpected IS the norm when you work with children. However, after the EMP 'thinking on your feet’ became her survival mantra, not just a job skill. As an amateur prepper, Dreia's instinct to exit the city quickly was delayed by a strong sense of responsibility for her students. In her quest to do the right thing, her path filled with terrifying obstacles of a collapsing society. The most dangerous proved to be human. With a one track mind, she decided to do whatever it takes to make it home to her family, because her children are worth crossing lines. But will she make it home in time to protect them from the threat she didn’t see coming? This is book one in the Bennett family’s quest to survive when the grid is destroyed and good people have to make hard choices. Buy it now and put yourself in Dreia’s boots!

Mountain Hideaway


Pete Thorsen - 2017
    He now thinks he has everything he has ever wanted and then the whole world around him collapses. The economy falls apart, and no one knows what to do about it as it gets worse and worse. He and his wife live in his dream location in the mountains. Is their house remote enough to keep them safe as the world descends into complete chaos? As always in my stories, there is no foul language or explicit sex though there is some violence. My stories are only meant to provide an afternoon or evening of reading enjoyment. I hope you find enjoyment with this one.

The Revival: Book II of the Stonemont Series


Steven C. Smith - 2018
    But the reviews and growing readership proved that it was more. It transcended its original target audience to appeal to many who had no previous interest in survivalism or preparedness as a lifestyle and made the jump to general adventure fiction.The reasons for this were several. It was well written, expansive in scope yet easy to follow. It told an interesting, compelling, story - intricate in its construction but smooth in its presentation. It introduced well-developed characters who jumped from the pages and spoke to the reader as easily and completely as do those around us, with thoughtful depth and easy humor. It spoke to our hearts, our souls, and the parts of us that search for a better way. But, more importantly, it asked, and answered, the seminal questions of our lives: Who are we? What do we believe in? What do we stand for? What will we stand against? And what is it, at our core, that enables ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things?Where The Reversion left off, The Revival picks up. From survival of an existential collapse, we enter the initial stages of the rebuilding of a society - a rebuilding seen through the eyes of those from Stonemont, and, eventually, beyond.As it should, The Revival takes us beyond The Reversion into a world we do not know, and cannot know, unless and until it happens. In doing so, it addresses unknown and unknowable situations with known and knowable human traits, tactics and strategies in pursuit of the stabilization of a world turned upside down. It is James Wesley, Rawles meets S.M. Stirling. It is a study of love, fortitude, morality, patriotism and the things that made America great, a critique of what caused the world to crumble, and a blueprint for the revival of those things we feel to be foundational for a people to return to a world of liberty, justice and freedom.As did The Reversion, The Revival breathes hope and fresh air into a genre which often, and rightly, concentrates on the devastation of society, and shows us a future world which is, in many ways, more positive than the one in which we currently live. Many readers, in fact, have stated that they prefer the world they have found in the Stonemont series to the one we live in. It can easily be understand why. The Revival continues the journey The Reversion started. It is a journey of life, love, learning and the human spirit. It is a journey you will be glad you are on.

Nightmare Soup: Tales That Will Turn Your Stomach


Jake Tri - 2017
    Each story is accompanied by a ghastly illustration from the mind of Andy Sciazko... the kind of illustrations that will disturb you in the best way possible.

The Burning Tree: Book 1: Salvation


Christopher Artinian - 2021
    

The Trashman


Terry McDonald - 2013
    'THE TRASHMAN' is a hard hitting story of a family forced to flee Atlanta to seek refuge from a fast spreading, very lethal strain of MERS-CoV.A common family, unprepared for disaster, the Olmsted's learn that surviving anarchy requires a rapid change of mindset.THE TRASHMAN is a fast moving tale of survival, heartbreak and triumph.Extreme violence, Language, Adult Situations.

A Powers Play (The Powers That Be, Book 1.5)


Harper Bentley - 2017
    Even his proposal had taken me by surprise when he got down on one knee in the shower. But now it was my turn to shock him at midnight on New Year’s Eve in Vegas, and it was going to be awesome!

Alive Again: A Zombie Apocalypse in a Dystopian World


T.W. Piperbrook - 2021
    

Nightfall: An EMP Survival Thriller (American Midnight Book 2)


David Kazzie - 2020
    

Blood of the Dogs: Book I: Annihilation


Richard Cosme - 2018
     In 2039, in the rubble of old Chicago, sixteen-year-old Sarah charges into a ravenous dog pack and saves Mac from becoming the pack’s morning snack. Thus begins a unique decades long partnership that drives BLOOD OF THE DOGS, a post-apocalyptic novel with more action the Mad Max on meth. BLOOD OF THE DOGS is a tale of love, revenge, fealty, betrayal, and breathtaking rescues. Sarah and Mac, two deadly teenage recluses. Each alone for years in a desolate urban landscape. Hiding, defending, adapting. She saves him, they move further west, get a place, rescue a golden lab, make some friends. Earth has disposed of humanity like a dog shaking off fleas. Sarah, a woman of grace and ferocity, leads a small band of survivors through a world without pity. Chicago looks like God dropped a broken city into the middle of a forest. Humanity is suffering and the world is dominated by people without conscience—intelligent, savage, merciless. None of Sarah’s companions (Mac, her love; Weasel, their reclusive and lethal neighbor; Stevie, a feral teen; or Duke (a golden lab) realize she is the navigator. Nor does Sarah. BLOOD OF THE DOGS is an action novel, an exploration of good vs. evil, and a story of the strength of family bonds.

The Last Disaster


Kellee L. Greene - 2018
    She and her family had kept themselves hidden and isolated from the dangers of the outside world.When the storms returned, everything her parents had built over the years was destroyed. Even though she was afraid of what waited outside, she was left with no choice but to venture out and survive the brutal winter in an attempt to find a new home.Now, with nothing but a few supplies and the clothes on her back, she must figure out a way to get safe again.Alone.Afraid.Nothing will ever be the same.---The Last Disaster is the first book in a new series set in the Ravaged Land world. You do not need to have read the Ravaged Land series to enjoy this one, but each book within a series must be read in order.

I, Neil: An Alice in Deadland Adventure (Alice, No. 8)


Mainak Dhar - 2014
    That's the only name I have known for a long time. My mission is to follow and protect the yellow-haired girl called Alice. She was the one who gave us freedom, who united us, who showed that those like me, the ones you call Biters, are not monsters to be feared or animals to be hunted down. We live together now, us and the humans, in a place you know as Wonderland. The name doesn't matter. All I know is that I finally have a place I can call home. I have fought many battles and suffered many scars, and as new enemies threaten Alice and my home, I will have to fight again. But now I must fight the toughest battle I have fought yet. The battle to remember who I once was. For you see, now I remember I was someone before I became Bunny Ears.I am Neil and this is my story.

The Undead Road (My Zombie Summer Book 1)


David Powers King - 2016
    Their plan? Drive across the infected United States to a cabin in the Colorado Rockies without a scratch, but their trip takes a complicated detour in the middle of Nebraska when they find Kaylynn, a girl who can handle a baseball bat better than Jeremy can hold a .45 Beretta. And when they stumble into a sanctuary, Jeremy soon learns that Kaylynn is stronger than she looks—a deadly secret lies inside her. After the radio picks up a distress call from Kansas City about a possible cure, Jeremy’s parents go with a team to investigate. They never return. The only way to find their parents is for Jeremy and his sister Jewel to rely on a dangerous girl who might just turn on them at any moment.

Nuclear War Club: Seven high school students in detention, who don't know, or like each other, get a pop test in survival


Colt Triarii - 2015
    They realize this was not another earthquake, but a Nuclear Attack. David knew they would have to work together to escape from the rubble, then shelter for 14 days to survive the fallout. If, as he feared, their parents were dead, then they should trek east,hopefully staying together.They would have to adapt, improvise, and overcome. They rescued a 4 year old orphan and realized how much they had learned from their parents. They became the Nuclear War Club. David had been the starting quarterback on his football team in Alabama.He had just transferred to this California High School as a Senior, when his Dad was reassigned to an Air Force Base. David organized the human chain to escape from the rubble. The clock was ticking, they would have to find, or make, a shelter from the fallout within 30 minutes or die from the radiation. David looked over the other 6 detention survivors and was disappointed at this soft, pampered, self centered, dysfunctional group. But you go to nuclear war with the survivors you have, he thought, as he explained what had happened and his plan. He invited them to follow as he began to hike to where his truck and camping equipment had been. Zeke's stomach churned, and he struggled to control his panic as he viewed the nuclear debris as far as the eye could see. What had happened to LeShawn and Monique? Were they trapped in rubble, crying for their big brother to come? His Mom was a drug addict, he was all his preschool brother and sister had. He would rescue them,or die trying. But he was miles away from home-the football boosters arranged for special transportation to get the heavily recruited, All State football running back, to this wealthy school everyday. He would stay with this group, they were his ticket, until he found a way to rescue LeShawn and Monique. Karen had grown up on a ranch where her father was hired to care for the horses. She was tough from working with the horses, self sufficient,and was instinctively wary of how David had just naturally assumed command. Karen had just transferred to this school under redistricting, and she didn't know any of them well.But the school, and the entire City were totally destroyed, there was no other option. Karen grabbed her backpack, stuck a knife from what was left of the underground school kitchen in her hiking boots, concealed it with her sock, then followed. Liu was a first generation Vietnamese immigrant who excelled at school. She had been utterly humiliated and shamed that she had even been sent to detention. Liu had carefully noticed how David had organized their evacuation and got everyone out. David was a natural leader, and he seemed to know a lot about Nuclear War. She would stay with this group until her Dad found her. Jorge was going to be an architect and was dual enrolled in engineering classes at the Community College. His leg had been broken when the ceiling collapsed, David and Karen had helped set his splint. He was all in, hobbling behind. Karen loathed Ashley Kensington, and wondered if the cheerleaders required DNA test confirmation that you had blond hair, blue eyes, long legs, and no brain to be the cheerleader captain. Ashley considered staying at what was left of the school. Surely her wealthy parents would send the maid or someone to get her. But David sounded like he knew all about Nuclear attacks when he told her that was stupid, and she was terrified of being left behind, alone. Doron was a genius who was also popular as the creator of the encrypted "geek.peek" homework school website.