Apocalyptic Survival Fiction

This first book of the Holding Their Own series, A Story of Survival, is set in the year 2015, when the world is burdened by the second Great Depression. The United States, already weakened by internal strife, becomes the target of an international terror plot. A series of attacks results in thousands of casualties and disables the country's core infrastructure. The combination of economic hardship and the staggering blow of the terror attacks results in a collapse of the government.

Tom and his family survived doomsday, only to find the world falling into chaos and anarchy. EMP blasts had started the apocalypse during Tom and his family's return flight home from vacation. They struggled to get home, only to find a drug cartel and skinhead group fighting to take over Southern Oregon, where they live.

What would you risk to save your family? Charlie Decker traveled to Seattle to acquire a much-needed loan for his family’s Orchard. After a dozen requests, Charlie is forced to head home emptyhanded. But his plans are derailed after an unexpected attack on the city renders all electronics useless. No cars. No phones. Everything about the modern world has been destroyed. And that’s when the chaos begins.

In 2036, a rapidly destabilizing climate culminated in a worldwide snowstorm that froze the entire planet. Billions are now dead due to starvation, disease, civil unrest, and the plummeting temperatures. What remains of humanity now live in small settlements or isolated makeshift villages, carving out miserable lives in this grim new reality.

On the cusp of a nation seeing the power grid restored since an EMP sent it into darkness seven months ago, Colby and Alicia are riding out the final days of chaos at his Grandfathers cabin in Upper Klamath Lakes, Oregon. When they discover a boy believed to be dead, the two of them find themselves at the center of a conspiracy of silence that holds answers about the blackout.

It’s been a week without power. No phones. No computers. Nothing. Whatever shred of humanity is left in people is slowly dwindling away. Gangs are forming, people are starving, and the whole country is in a free-for-all. Accompanied by his neighbor, Nelson, Mike leaves Pittsburgh and heads to his family’s cabin in Ohio. For Mike, the only thing worse than not making it to the cabin is the fear of his family not being there when he does.

Kevin Crain was tired. He’d lived a long, healthy, productive life. Part of Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation”, he’d done his part in World War II, and then again in Korea. He matured during the Cold War. He’d seen a couple of the atomic bomb tests first hand, and knew the destruction that would come with all-out war.

Westly and Raider are coming to grips with the new world and the tremendous changes since the solar storm caused the nationwide power failures. The problems in the Flagg household seem to focus on a coming confrontation between good people and those at the Crater of Diamonds. Wes, in the process of warning others of the danger, realized sometimes in a world gone mad, doing the right thing for the right reasons is not good enough. Sometimes, he has to do the wrong things for the right reasons to fix what’s gone wrong.

Immense solar storms send deadly masses of electrically charged particles that strike and devastate the Earth. The grid is down, the supply chain is nonexistent, and millions are dying. Monty is lucky to survive in a safe room with family and a few strangers. Monty suffered the loss of several close friends during the war in the Middle East, and then his wife and child were murdered, which caused his PTSD to get worse.

Neal Grant watched silently as the cemetery workers buried his family. It was just him now, alone, something he’d never been before. First, his parents and siblings had passed and then his wife and three wonderful children. All of them were gone forever now - all dead at the same time because of a drunk driver and a foggy road. Little did Neal know that this was only the beginning of things to come. Soon he would realize that he had not only lost his family, but must also deal with a failing economy and a nuclear war.

In Turning Point, the Ryman family faces a life altering decision - should we stay or should we go? The oldest and strongest emotion in man is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. Will Americans flee the urban centers, the proverbial golden hordes, for the countryside? Will it be safer than the cities? Turning Point will lead the Ryman family into a complex, inexplicable world where danger lurks around every bend.

Albury...once a thriving, country town, now a wasteland overrun by the dead, and occupied by the last threads of human immorality. With limited options, those who survived the aftermath push on into more populated areas, seeking help from the authorities. The group will rescue new friends, confront foes, and battle heart-wrenching loss. Unresolved issues will surface, and friendships will be tested, as love struggles to survive in a changing world.

New York. 2120. America has been decimated, wiped out from the second Civil War. In this post-apocalyptic world, survivors are far and few between. And most of those who do survive are members of the violent gangs, predators who live in the big cities. They patrol the countryside looking for slaves, for fresh victims to bring back into the city for their favorite death sport: Arena One. The death stadium where opponents are made to fight to the death, in the most barbaric of ways. There is only one rule to the arena: no one survives. Ever.

From down the Choctawhatchee River in Alabama to the Gulf of Mexico in Florida, listen and follow our survivors as they flee the chaos and mayhem of the city on the safest alternate route they can find. All their gear, all their hopes, and dreams of survival are packed in a compact technologically- advanced trailer that can turn into a boat. Join Sam and Lori as they use all their survival skills and prepper wits to try to prosper and thrive in this grid down apocalypse and avoid the creeping extinction that follows them as modern society collapses.

A man and his brother escape to a rural retreat when disaster strikes America.

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.

Ben Riker, a lieutenant in the Asheville Fire Department and part-time prepper, jumps into action to save his family when he realizes an EMP has upended modern civilization. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to EMP Shelter In Place and experience the compelling world of post-apocaliptic fiction.

Civil war ravages the country. The economy collapses. A plague spreads like fire, and pollution darkens the sky. This is the toxic world of Robert Ashton. A wasteland of broken dreams, death, tech, and mutants. But he is not alone. He and his partner navigate life underground, where it is safer. Society has buckled, and working as a smuggler, Robert builds a criminal life to keep the two of them fed. But nothing lasts forever, and he is forced to return to the surface when the underground suffers a brutal military raid. What he discovers shocks a man who thinks he cannot be shocked anymore.

Explosive new series! From Ryan Schow, best-selling author of The Last War and The Age of Embers, comes an intense new tale of strength, survival, and patriotism. Dark Days of the After puts ordinary citizens on the front line of a domestic conflict that was never supposed to happen, one that will either unify the country or break her for good...This is not the America you know. In the near future, the Constitution is outlawed, the government is ceremonial at best and the country is about to lose her name.

Doctor Anna Hastings is no stranger to disasters, having spent much of her career as an aid worker in conflict zones around the world. Yet when an electrical phenomenon known as an EMP brings down the power grid, Anna faces catastrophe on a scale she never imagined. She must learn what it means to be a doctor in a world deprived of almost all technology.