Dystopian Mystery

Safety is a relative term for David. Initially reluctant to side with any of the warring factions, death strikes close to home as an unwelcome guest arrives in the nearby town, forcing David to take up his rifle once more. He is suddenly thrust into a fight for his life and for those he loves. Charlotte and Vir escape the death and destruction in DC, but the ghosts of Charlotte's past continue to haunt her. Having thought they had been gifted with a chance at a new beginning, the two survivors instead find themselves pursued by a ruthless enemy.

Adam and his sister, Leila, are Nons—second-class citizens, living under the Permitted ruling class. Though their life in the Stone City is filled with family, stories, and music, they must carefully follow the rules, have all paperwork on hand, and never, ever do anything to anger a Permitted. When their father unexpectedly dies, they are even restricted in how they are allowed to grieve.

Now that Kal has become chipless and The City's tyrants have turned against their own people, the time for action has come. Amber receives news of her father's faltering health and can no longer put off her plans to rescue him from the High Professor's captivity. Together with two New City survivors, Kal and Amber embark on a long and dangerous journey. But their plan to penetrate The City and expose how the High Professor manipulates the citizens he had sworn to protect runs into a string of obstacles that threaten to end their mission before it starts.

Wyatt has been riding out the zombie apocalypse on his crew’s cobbled-together train for what feels like forever. It’s a hopeless journey, the train running a loop that covers thousands of miles across the western U.S. But when a mysterious girl arrives with stories of a so-called Nirvana and a potential cure for the zombie parasite, Wyatt must decide between searching for the cure and protecting those entrusted in his care.

In a world ruled by faceless, uncaring mega-corporations, Frankie, a young woman who has resisted cybernetics, becomes the victim of a lethal Jacker Gang attack. Shot and left to die in the slums of Neo-London, she is found by a genius cybernetic doctor who is on the run from a powerful Corporation. Seeing an opportunity to finish his latest cybernetic masterpiece, he transplants Frankie's brain into a powerful prosthetic body. Frankie has barely woken up when the Corporation's forces attack and kidnap the doctor, forcing Frankie to go on the run in her new cybernetic body.

Remember Noodle, Indiana? So does Caleb. It ain’t Noodle anymore. And it’s all Caleb’s fault. At least that’s how he sees it. And why not? Caleb brought hell to Noodle during his last visit. Specifically, multiple assassins looking to collect on a sizable contract on his head, caring less than nothing about how they’d turn the town into a post-apocalyptic mess.

Plague Nation is the gripping sequel to the apocalyptic thriller Plague Land, by the best-selling author of the Timeriders series, Alex Scarrow. Eighteen months have passed since the events of Plague Land. Leon and Freya have seen no sign of the virus, clinging on to the hope that two hard winters may have just killed it off. When news of a rescue ship arriving off the coast comes in, the pair are on the move once again. But all is not as safe as it seems. The virus has been busy. It has learned and evolved. And now it is reborn....

Treena and Vance think they've escaped the numbers game forever. They're wrong. After Treena's disastrous attempt to unite the nation, she has the deaths of hundreds haunting her dreams. Vance is a prisoner. Being rejected by the girl he loves and put on trial for betraying his clan are bad enough, but now he's been framed for a crime he never committed. Treena and Vance are still very much in the game, and this time it will take everything they have to save those they love.

Anthony Jackson, military veteran, member of the Presidential security team, father, husband, patriot, and spy. His daughter safely recovered from a government detention center, Jackson's role as a spy for the antigovernment Apocolyte group is firmly cemented. All he needs to do is keep his head down, do his job, and get intel back to his rebel handler. But as Jackson's suspicions about President Meyers are proven true, and the tasks he's asked to handle become more and more immoral, his loyalties strain.

In the near future, AI and automation have rendered humans obsolete. The only way to make a living is as an influencer on the world's most popular social media platform. Cars run on apps, crime is a thing of the past, and users are served a steady diet of easily digestible content from an algorithmic faucet. But what happens when the algorithm falls into the wrong hands?

Deutschland in naher Zukunft: Der Rechtsruck ist unaufhaltsam, das Geld ungerecht verteilt und die Demokratie erschüttert. Wer hat wirklich die Macht im Land? Es ist Heiligabend. Bewaffnete und vermummte Gestalten dringen in die Häuser der einflussreichsten Menschen Deutschlands ein - und ihre Geiselnahmen werden live übertragen, auf allen Kanälen. Das ist die Reality Show. Der Showmaster erklärt die Spielregeln: "Zwar wählen die Menschen ihre Regierung, die Macht liegt jedoch längst nicht mehr beim Volk.

When an EMP destroys the nation’s power grid, Joanna Mercer must fight her way down the Appalachian Mountains and into the city below to rescue her daughter from the enemy threatening violence against their country. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Last Cabin and experience the compelling world of this post-apocalyptic suspense story.

The book begins with the murder of the narrator. The bandits believe him to be dead so the largest mining company on the planet uses his apparent death as a cover to turn him into a secret agent. The planet, Cerberus, makes it money mining gold, and there is an unusual amount of high quality gold that is just appearing on the planetary market. That is driving the price of gold down, which is bad news for a planet.

"If I’m going to meet death, I’m going to do it with honor, Erika thought. Live together, die together: the words echoed in her mind." Captured by the Federal Forces, Erika’s will to survive is tested. Believing her family is dead, she clings to life under the torment of her captor, TJ Swenson. Her son Dexter attempts to enter the central region with his best friend, Johnny. Heartbroken by his wife’s capture, Vince’s focus centers on getting Erika back. In a race against time, the militia forces move in to retrieve the leaders of the resistance.

In the dawn of a new Ice Age, families everywhere are taking to the road to escape the frigid landscape-but you can’t outrun the cold. No one could have predicted the terrifying impact of human interference in the Arctic. Shifts in the Earth's crust have led to catastrophe and now the North Pole is located in the mid-Atlantic, making much of the eastern United States an unlivable polar hellscape.

Over the last four years, Jacob Sloan has lived naked and alone within an abandoned island hotel, smoking cannabis, eating squirrels, and swimming in a lake that contains a dark secret. As memory slowly begins to flower in his brain, Jacob recalls the traumatic events that lead him to the island, describing a childhood of evangelical Christian horror, constantly fearing bar codes, the Antichrist, and being abandoned in the ever-nearing rapture.

New Earth, 2296. Two years after the destruction of a universal surveillance system called the Intercept, New Earth struggles to keep crime under control. The citizens are free but not protected.

The border town of Forest Mist resides in the Great Piney Woods and is famous throughout the Alliance for its lumber and rare hardwoods. In need of building materials for their new ranch home, Bishop and Terri travel east. It is the couple’s anniversary, and both feel the need for a change of scenery. As they cross Texas, they discover a dark confrontation simmering just under the surface of Alliance society.

The Divided, the sixth book of The Orphans series, picks up directly where Civil War, the fifth book, left off. The action and speed of this will leave your heart pounding.

In 2036, America's favorite newsman, Marcus Braden, becomes realistic with the American people about the never-ending poor state of the American economy. Marcus's bosses aren't pleased with his decision. Eventually, his warnings come to fruition. A government-created corporation, the Central Management Authority, takes over every major industry, including the Worldwide News Link, Marcus's employer. He is quickly recruited to join the opposition against the hijacking of the country. The country immediately spirals out of control into a violent, riotous firestorm.