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After emerging from a coma, Faye Wills opens her eyes to complete darkness and the feeling of being trapped. Soon she discovers she is in no less than a nightmare world and awakens in the worst place imaginable. She is one of thousands of bodies in a makeshift mass grave that was once a football stadium. Left for dead. There are no signs of life and the only sound she hears is the buzzing of flies that follow the stench of death.

Greg Benedict watches in horror as his wife and baby stand by the window inside of a burning building. Then, before the flames reach them, they vanish. It was just the beginning. Sporadic vanishings occur over the next several months, all leading to the day when half the population disappears. Gone. Chaos ensues as humanity struggles to come to grips with the sudden vanishing of half the life on Earth.

Jolly Copper is one of the few people who know the world is on the brink of cataclysmic destruction.... not because he had any scientific knowledge or prophetic dreams, but because he is nosey and read what was on a fellow bus passenger's phone one day. He learns there will be an unprecedented series of natural disasters, and the expected grand finale disaster is predicted to be a tidal wave massive enough to swallow half the globe.

The ultimate biological warfare attack is achieved when a group of American soldiers return home from deployment infected with a highly contagious pathogen. The ground zero incubation period is lengthy, and before it is even known that they are infected, the soldiers have already carried it to various cities across the United States. The culprit of this weapon is not a country or even a person, but rather nature itself. Within time, no place in the world is safe.

After being pushed to the brink of death, Darren is now pushed to find an end to Nito and her people. Saving humanity is foremost, but saving his son is vital. When they learn that King Seti never arrived, Darren and Davis embark on a journey to find him. The king would be the ultimate bargaining tool.

For the first time since his divorce, CJ will be able to take his son on a vacation. Along with his father, they make it a guys’ trip to the west coast. Little do they know their trip that is intended to be a lifetime of memories would include facing insurmountable odds. The lack of warning leaves everyone in the dark about what has occurred and vulnerable to all that unfolds. It doesn’t stop with the meteors. The disastrous events come one after another, a domino effect of annihilation.

A mysterious virus emerges after a meteor lands near a remote village in Peru. Authorities brought in to investigate discover that the horrific virus, not only kills, but reanimates its victims, turning them into the walking dead. Believing they have contained the outbreak, samples of the contagion are brought to the United States via infected military and other victims. The virus breaks boundaries and the infection spreads. Across America the war rages as the number of undead mount and humans are not the only things infected.

In the wake of global devastation, the Ancients have risen to take their place again in society and on the top of the food chain. But that will not happen without a fight. Following the loss of his wife and baby, Darren sets out to create a human army with one goal in mind…to defeat the Ancients at any cost. People are scattered and scared and the ancients are smarter and stronger than Darren first believes. That will not stop him. He, along with Davis, are on a mission. One they vow to not fail.

Zap! One day you are the coolest kid wearing the coolest clothes. Suddenly, your hair is parted drastically to one side, inside the front pocket of your checkered shirt is a pocket protector, and old disco is the music of choice. What happened? You were just stung by the Nerdfly.

Like many, Mackenzie Garret complains about the weather. It is the hottest summer anyone can remember. The high temperatures are out of control with no end in sight. Until it all changes. Overnight, blue skies become gray, and the hot, humid weather turns to rain, then snow, then ice as the temperature plummets. The entire northern half of the country is thrown into chaos as blow by blow, storm after storm, nature rips into the world, tearing it apart.

On Memorial Day afternoon, the skies above Carthage, Missouri, brighten suddenly as if the sun explodes. Seconds later it's gone, and no one knows what happened. Normal life resumes. BBQs continue, and kids play in backyards. No one notices the screams coming from one backyard. It doesn't just happen in Carthage; it happens all over. While delayed, the aftereffects of the event are brutal to all those who were exposed to the flash, and horrifying to behold. Those not exposed, like Alana Cross, are helpless to do anything. All they can do is witness humanity self-destructing.

When the news of an impending extinction-level meteor impact is made public, humanity struggles to find some way to survive. Violet journals her life in a notebook in the form of letters to her grandmother. They start out sarcastic and funny, as she shares entertaining and exaggerated tales of her teenage life. But when Violet finds out about the meteor, everything changes. Suddenly she is thrust into a grown-up world, and her survival isn't guaranteed.

Shortly after the methane event that took from them their father and most of the world’s population, brothers, Gabe and Owen Foster embark on a quest to look for survivors and a permanent place to start a new life. The storms have ended, and air is safe, to them and the others it is time to look toward the future. However, the future is not stable and the extinction level event has only just begun. With a new threat on the horizon, one that can wipe the rest of humanity from existence, the brothers search for a safe haven grows more complicated and the choices are few.

In a small Montana town, it takes four minutes for every man, woman, and child to die. It isn’t a virus or biological attack, but rather the beginning of a geological event that triggers a chain reaction across the globe with devastating effects. A repeat of an extinction event that occurred millions of years earlier. There is no stopping it. The only way to survive is to stay ahead of it. Tom Foster hasn’t flown in decades, yet, he sets his fear aside for a vacation with his grown sons.

A deadly virus sweeps across the globe turning its victims into murderous creatures. In the wake of the dead, the Eliminators are born. They are elite teams that travel the country, town to town, taking out the risen dead. A bold and ambitious project to return the world to order. In the third installment, Kasper is back, but things aren’t back to normal for the team.

Kasper Wallace is a screwup. Everything he tries to do in life falls apart. He struggles to rise above his troubles until the day a global pandemic gives him a purpose. His years of immersion into the apocalypse scenarios of books, movies, and video games, provides him with the knowledge that makes him a survival asset. But, is it enough to fight an invisible invader that sickens and turns its victims into something much more threatening? The virus shows no mercy or prejudice. It is violent and swift and the after-effects of its rage leaves the human race at the edge of extinction.

A mysterious growth covers three deer on Miller Run Road outside of Griffin, Arizona. The sickly animals are mistaken for scared until they brazenly attack a car, causing a fatal accident. Like everyone else in town, Cass “Scoop” McDaniels has lived in Griffin her entire life. When she is assigned the accident story, her findings are dismissed. The story dies with the people on the road. But Cass doesn’t give up.

It is not a war that mankind ever expects to face - one against the undead. In the fourth and final book of the Rectify Series, the battle has begun. After the rescue attempt of Sanctum, James Ung and the others make their way to Moundsville, West Virginia, where Clay Owens leads a group of survivors. They make a long term sanctuary our of an old prison. It is to be home, instead, they face using the prison as a fortress. Hope burns out quickly when they learn the world is far worse and the CO-D4 virus has only begun its evolution of humanity.

The CO-D4 virus rages the globe, leaving weary survivors and infected who roam the streets. In the aftermath of the pandemic, Doctor James Ung finds himself in a new type of world. A quiet one. Almost as if everything is put on pause. The global distribution of the vaccine breeds a different outcome other than hope. Those who receive it fall into a deep coma. Ung along with Major Tom find an ally in Ella Hoffman, a displaced survivor from another camp. Time is running out and they are clueless as to what will happen when the inoculated survivors wake.

Kasper Wallace is a screwup. Everything he tries to do in life falls apart. He struggles to rise above his troubles...until the day a global pandemic gives him a purpose. His years of immersion into the apocalypse scenarios of books, movies, and video games, provides him with the knowledge that makes him a survival asset.