Apocalyptic Survival Fiction

If you found yourself trapped 100 years in the future where the earth is a wasteland, how would you survive? Raven Winter is awake and alone in the empty mountain wilderness. Running for her life, she struggles to flee to the refuge of the plains below. The dangers of the new world threaten to overtake her and it will take all her strength to survive. Kit is a young woman who knows no fear. Roaming the plains searching for food and weapons to support her people, she will never back down from a fight. Yet when she encounters a stranger hiding in the wilderness near her home, Kit must decide where her loyalties lie.

Ben Riker devoted himself to protecting his family when the EMP was detonated. Since that day, he has fought, scavenged, and clawed his way back from the brink of death. And as the end of a war with the enemy responsible for the country’s devastation draws nearer, Ben wonders if he can outlast the fight that has claimed so many lives.

Months after losing their home due to a devastating EMP attack, Ben Riker and his family have enjoyed a period of stability. But the enemy responsible for detonating the EMP is planning something even worse. Desperate to prevent another catastrophe, Ben must stop the enemy before the country descends into nuclear winter.

United: Book 2 in the America Overrun series, continues the saga of the Duncan family struggling to survive in a collapsed world and fighting the evil forces that are surrounding them. After being forced out of their homes, the Duncan family and their group seek refuge in a quarry. They soon find out that they are in the path of a local criminal kingpin and his gangster army.

When an EMP attack plunges the nation into darkness, the days of panic have only just begun.... About to leave for Army Basic Training, Peter Meier awakens to a society on the edge of collapse. But when three strangers wander onto his family’s backwoods property in rural Wisconsin, a shocking turn of events plunges his world into turmoil. Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Bowman, Mayor Tom Grossman must work tirelessly to maintain a sense of calm. With no power, cars, or phones, will he be able to quell the rising tensions and keep the townsfolk composed?

Winter has arrived on the Healys’ Montana ranch. After discovering evidence of the coldhearted execution of his father, Greg Healy has become consumed with a burning desire for revenge. While he hides his true purpose of scoping out the murderous enemy behind fruitless hunting trips, further responsibility is thrust upon Greg’s teenage son, Darryl. The ranch has become a hollow shell without the calm assurance and steady hand his father once provided, stability Darryl needs more than ever with the shocking secret he keeps.

It’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this trilogy. It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must retrace their journey into Iowa to find and bring back Alex’s parents to the tenuous safety of Illinois.

Disaster strikes after an EMP disables the country’s power grid, disrupting communications, transportation, and essential utilities. Ben Riker, a prepper and Lieutenant with the Asheville fire department, has managed to secure a new home to rebuild what his family had lost. But before they can start a new life, Ben must retrieve his daughter before the enemy finds her.

Against all odds, in a silent, threatening world, two sisters fight for survival and the chance to rewrite their past. Caught in a jail cell after defending each other from their predatory foster brother, foster sisters Olive and Sam Anderson are trapped in a remote small town under the thumb of a corrupt officer. A sudden EMP blast turns their world dark and silent, even as an unseen threat looms in their station's shadows.

Cassy has joined with Frank and his group, and the group members declare themselves a clan, pitting themselves as a group against the rising tide of darkness around them. Then the death of one of their own creates new tensions that may tear the clan apart before it ever reaches the promised oasis of Cassy's homestead farm. Worse, they are followed by a man bent on their destruction, who would take her farm for his own group if he can find it.

An EMP attack leaves single-father Will Fontenot and his son stranded in Houston, Texas. Wracked with guilt and struggling with PTSD from the accident that took his wife's life, he'll do whatever it takes to get his son out of the city. But an encounter with two injured women hurls them into a deadly game of cat and mouse and puts all their lives at risk.

Alan Russell thought about his family night and day. They didn’t just mean the world to him, they were his world. As a devoted husband and father, his sole purpose was to love, support, and protect them. Yet Alan had gone a step further, doing everything in his power to ensure his family’s survival in what he believed would become a perilous and uncertain future. On the day civilization changed forever, he found his efforts hadn’t been enough.

In Book 3 in the Dawn of Deception series, author A. R. Shaw delivers another far-too-plausible post-apocalyptic scenario challenging human survival.

A virulent virus of unknown origins has decimated the UK, turning the majority of the population into monsters hungry for human flesh. Through luck and a sheer bloodymindedness to make the right decisions for everyone, Warren has survived. Not everyone has been so lucky, however, and he is now desperate to reunite with his family and find somewhere safe for them all to exist. Warren enters the Community; a collection of organised survivors in a gated safe-haven.

When an EMP decimates the world’s power grid, the Arizona desert is plunged back into the lawless era of the Old West. Where electricity, cars, and cell phones had once dominated daily life, this disaster ushers in the return of outlaws, shootouts, and settling differences the old-fashioned way. For Vin, a former special-ops soldier turned bounty hunter, the change is a welcomed one.

Rick, Tina, and their new family members embark on a journey with Annette to Miami, Florida, for a cruise where trouble was brewing. Once again, Rick, Tina, and their furry owners must use their preps and wits to survive the fury of more than a mere hurricane. With first Tina and then Owen going missing, Rick and his canines must race to find them before it's too late.

The Chicom/SAA war is ravaging California, turning the once beautiful state into a West Coast wasteland. With the surge into Oregon and Washington underway, only small pockets of Resistance survive. Logan, Skylar, Harper, Ryker and the Madigan family make up one of those pockets. While the Resistance in Five Falls prepares to hold their ground at all costs, a much larger army is headed their way, one that will make the Chicoms look tame by comparison.

In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it. You know what I mean. Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.

Six months after the EMP, and the collapse of the US, no one is safe. In Lake Placid, Elliot and his family have survived the winter, but lost their home and are still struggling to stay alive. But when Maggie learns about a compound in East Texas offering hope and safety, and Gary drops a bombshell that could divide the group, tempers flare, and a decision must be made. Who will stay and who will leave? In a dangerous new world where survival isn't guaranteed, Elliot, Rayna, Gary, and the others must face off against the most desperate, ruthless, and brutal of society.

After making the heart-wrenching decision to leave her injured daughter, Julia, in Virginia, Riley and her new husband, Coop, strike out into the wilderness toward Colorado. Along the way, they cross paths with old acquaintances and combine resources to travel together. Riley and Coop soon get life-altering news and learn that one member of their group has put them in grave danger, forcing them to stay one step ahead of a hostile, rogue government. Will Riley have the wit and courage to survive the journey and reunite her family?