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Cyborgs!


Vaughn Heppner - 2014
    Then, everything went wrong until only the Space Marines were left. Alone in the dark, outnumbered and outgunned by the cyborgs waiting for them on the methane-ice surface of Tyche, the hour of desperation has arrived. As requested by many DOOM STAR readers, this story has been released as a single title. CYBORGS! is a stand-alone NOVELLA, which means it’s SHORTER and CHEAPER than your typical Doom Star book. Previously published in the anthology Planetary Assault, CYBORGS! is the tale of Mule, a Space Marine sniper on an lonely mission, years away from any reinforcements. Earth’s future rests on his cunning and resolve.

The Ladykiller / The Runaway / The Jump


Martina Cole - 1995
    

Celtic Blades and Battles II: Four Celtic-Themed Medieval Romances


Kathryn Le Veque - 2018
     The Celts were spread through out Ireland and Scotland, men and women of power and determination, and in the pages of this limited edition collection, you'll find an explosion of legendary Celtic adventure and passion. Through the mists of time, these tales bring forth the very best in Celtic historical romance. Also included is an exclusive sneak-peak of HIGH WARRIOR, Le Veque's exciting April 2018 release. In this collection, you will find: Black Sword: An Irish rebel, an English captive, and an unforgettable romance explodes. The Darkland: An Irish legacy knight serves a wicked lord with a terrible secret. Echoes of Ancient Dreams: A Dark Ages Irish king is transported to modern times and back again. SeaWolfe: An English pirate and his Irish prisoner find love on the shores of Cornwall. And an exclusive excerpt from HIGH WARRIOR, not available anywhere else. Enjoy this limited edition collection while it lasts!

As Breathing


Marcus Sakey - 2010
    Billy Dexter is the point man, the finisher. For years they were the most sought-after hit team in the country.Until Dex stopped killing.But when the woman he loves is in trouble, Dex discovers that murder is an easy habit to return to—for him, it’s as natural as breathing.A short story from the author of THE BLADE ITSELF and GOOD PEOPLE.* This story appears in the collection SCAR TISSUEMarcus Sakey is the author of four novels, three of which are in development as feature films. He has been nominated for or won an Anthony, Barry, Macavity, Strand Critic’s Circle, Reader’s Choice, Crimespree, Dilys, Crime Shot, Romantic Times, and ITW Thriller Award. Praise for Marcus Sakey: "The new reigning prince of crime fiction." - Chicago Tribune "An astoundingly good writer." - San Jose Mercury News "Crime drama for the 21st century." - National Public Radio

The Prodigal Daughter / Shall We Tell the President? 2 in 1 (Kane and Abel, #2 #3)


Jeffrey Archer - 2001
    She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more to be the first female president.Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world-and to build a future with the woman he loves. With Florentyna's ultimate goal only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering price of power as a titanic battle of betrayal and deception reaches out from the past-a blood feud between two generations that threatens to destroy everything Florentyna and Richard have fought to achieve.------After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane’s has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life.The FBI investigates thousands of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy—in less than one week? The race to save the first woman president begins now…

I Love You, More: Short Stories of Addiction, Recovery, and Loss From the Family's Perspective


Blake E. Cohen - 2019
     Society offers little to educate the public or de-stigmatize the problem of addiction.I Love You More is distinct and unique from other books on the market on addiction as it is meant to be an emotional education on the family systems affected by addiction using three, fictional short stories, all with very different endings.These three powerful stories have common threads of hope, pain, mistrust, grief, worry, change, acceptance, belief, and the constant presence of varying levels of sanity across a broad spectrum.I Love You More offers insight into the various perspectives and experiences of family members who have dealt with the harrowing disease of addiction.  The goal of this book is to be the conduit that allows you to enter the body and mind of a substance abuser and their family, to see the world through their eyes as they navigate their way through one of the most heart-breaking and gut-wrenching hardships they will ever face.The author, Blake Cohen, is a recovering alcoholic and addict himself for multiple years. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and is a Certified Additions Professional.  He currently works in the field of substance abuse treatment in the position of National Outreach Manager. Blake’s role allows him to be of assistance to families, and their loved ones, as they begin their journey into recovery. Blake is also a public speaker using his experience and education to help bring understanding to the public regarding the disease of addiction.From mothers to fathers to siblings to aunts and uncles to grandmothers and grandfathers, as well the individuals struggling themselves, these stories contain emotional tidbits from the author’s years in the treatment field, interviews with families, and his own personal experiences.The hardest thing for a person to do is watch a loved one slowly kill themselves while you standby; unable to do anything about it.  For the family, addiction is frustrating, heart-wrenching, exhausting and time-consuming.  It can lead to bouts of anger followed by bouts of hysteria.  It can leave you bed-ridden and paralyzed by insurmountable sadness and depression. Although we cannot make our loved ones better, we can learn to take care of ourselves through it all. This book is emotional support for anyone and everyone whose lives have been touched by addiction.

Wait Like a Stone: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller (The SHTF Series Book 4)


L.L. Akers - 2020
    and the decision will haunt him for the rest of his days.The fallout is only the start...With food and water already in short supply, this newest disaster introduces a whole new level of madness, bedlam and havoc. Wait Like a Stone is book four in The SHTF Series, a post-apocalyptic thriller series following ordinary people struggling to survive an apocalyptic event—that plunged the United States into chaos—immediately followed by another attack that might finally be the death of them all.

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.

Jernigan's War


Ken Gallender - 2013
    What he wasn't prepared for was the total destruction of everyone and everything he cared about. His journey from personal vendetta to becoming a guiding force in the New Constitution Army puts his fighting abilities and survival to the test. Porter Jones had to grow up quickly and learn to survive in a world gone mad. With help he finds along the way, he develops skills to protect and defend his newly adopted family. He joins a group of warriors fighting with the New Constitution Army helping to restore the original US Constitution and defeat America's enemies.

Humanaty's Blight: Post-apocalyptic


LeRoy Clary - 2019
    The main character is an introverted recluse who teams up with a fourteen-year-old girl. Together, they fight to survive as they get to know each other. He is computer-smart and used to ordering his needs online. She is street-smart. Where one is strong, the other is weak in world that has degenerated into hungry mobs of desperate people. This book is purposefully different from the norm of the genera in that it centers more on the people while the story advances.

The Bunker: Surviving an Economic Collapse


Wayne Bosak - 2017
    A chance encounter between Clyde and Cindy changes both of their lives. Fate brought them together at a time of great tragedy for Cindy, as their world was collapsing around them. Clyde's family was scattered in various locations and needed to make their way back home. Cindy, Clyde, and his family struggle to survive in the face of adversity and violence. They show that rural America is alive and working together as has always been the case. Clyde's grandson was in college in Colorado and now tries to make his way home to Tennessee. Alan, Clyde's son and his wife are on vacation in North Carolina when the collapse hits and must travel in an uncertain world to get home. Tricia, Clyde's daughter has gone to Knoxville to pick up her daughter, on the way home they are ambushed.

The Green Fields Series Box Set: Books 1-3


Adrienne Lecter - 2016
     *** Green Fields #1: Incubation If the zombie apocalypse happens tomorrow—how would you spend your last day? All Dr. Brianna Lewis wants is a cup of coffee. Coffee, to make slaving away in her cell culture lab at Green Fields Biotech a little more bearable on a Friday afternoon when everyone is home already. What she doesn’t count on is a group of terrorists blowing up all the entrances to the building and taking her and a select few others hostage. Bree soon finds herself conflicted. Not only does she know their charismatic leader. She also starts to suspect that there is a lot more to this than the hunt for an illegal bioweapon—a virus that could potentially kill millions in just a few days—particularly as there is currently a flu epidemic raging across the country, and reports about violent behavior among the afflicted are getting more and more alarming. Green Fields #2: Outbreak With nowhere left to run—where will you go? Most of the world’s population is either dead or dying from a virus that looks a lot like the one Bree and Nate tried to destroy—and not all of them remain dead. Chased by hordes of zombies, they flee the city with what remains of their merry band of miscreants. But even when most of them survive the first day, they are far from safe—because there is no safe place left. The fight for survival forces them to become resourceful, and soon they realize that the undead might not be their only problem. In this new world, it’s each man or woman out for themselves—and just because someone has a pulse doesn’t necessarily mean they make a good ally. Yet there is hope—a bunker in Wyoming, outfitted with weapons and food, and above all else, defensible shelter for the winter. Can they survive the two-thousand-miles trip across the country with nothing but the clothes on their back and what they can scavenge along they way? This is not the kind of challenge that Bree ever imagined she would have to face, but she’s determined to survive—even if that means to learn how to on the job. Green Fields #3: Escalation Is anybody out there? After a long winter spent hunkering down in Wyoming, Bree, Nate, and the gang are back on the road. The harsh temperatures up in the northern regions might have decimated the undead scourge somewhat, but soon they have to face reality: it’s not just zombies that are out there to hunt people down and kill them. For humanity to have a fighting chance to rebuild a semblance of civilization, everyone will have to work together—and resources are scarce. Someone will have to go out there and face the danger—and maybe find out what happened to the undead that were smart enough to flee the cold. Only the strong and smart have survived, making everyday life just a little more deadly for everyone.

Tipping Point


Rain Stickland - 2015
    She was warned. So she spent years coming up with a way to survive and protect her daughter at the same time. When major cities start going dark, and supply lines to millions of people are cut, Mackenzie is suddenly faced with an entire litany of situations she wasn't expecting, and isn't prepared for.

Bad Times Coming


Jerry D. Young - 2012
    YOUNG ROGER KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO SCRAPE BY. Things had been lean for quite a while and he had been forced to sell off a lot of his family’s things to make ends meet. He even came close to having to sell the land that had been in his family for three generations but fortunately was able to avoid that. Now finally with steady work coming in, he was getting back on his feet and slowly but surely rebuilding his family’s finances. He felt that by living simply and working hard they could position themselves to live a self-sufficient life on the old property and for once, it seemed that his timing couldn’t have been better. There were bad times coming and he would need every bit of time he could get to prepare for what was ahead. ABOUT AUTHOR JERRY D. YOUNG Author Jerry D. Young has been a fixture in the survival and prepping communities for more than twenty years. The author of more than 100 novels and short stories, Jerry’s writing has been a staple for men and women of all ages and from all walks of life that are interested in prepping, survival, and all-around self-sufficiency. Jerry’s books are written with the goal of educating as well as entertaining and generally enjoyed by all who seek to expand their knowledge of prepping and survival topics while enjoying a good book or short story. As daunting as the end of the world, nuclear fallout, World War III, Civil unrest, economic collapse, solar flares, EMP attacks, and other apocalyptic scenarios may be, society has always been interested in the “What If?” of a Post-Apocalyptic World. Jerry’s stories provide interesting and practical perspectives of heroes and villains navigating Post-Apocalyptic scenarios including everything from Mad Max type of events to more relevant plot lines that seem as if they could have come from the headlines of the modern world. Find more about Jerry D. Young at www.CreativeTexts.com.

Outside the Fire: An Economic Collapse Story


Boyd Craven - 2018
     Steve Taylor did everything he could to protect his family from what he saw as a weakening dollar and looming economic collapse. But when disaster finally arrives, the Taylors find that they’re not prepared for the enemies that emerge within their own suburban subdivision. The neighbors and HOA are already sore at the Taylors, but as things go from bad to worse, Steve and Amber Taylor must do all they can to keep their family healthy, happy, and safe. Realizing they can’t survive alone, they work to mend relationships. But there’s another community out there preying on the fringes of the subdivision. The real question is: Will help arrive before time runs out?