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Ideal for readers looking for post-apocalyptic survival fiction, nuclear disaster, ongoing danger, and a complete multi-book reading experience.
Desolation
Dystopian
Our take
College student Jenn Jansen is trying to avoid World War Three when nuclear war reaches Arizona on April 28, 2062. This five-book box set follows her fight to survive in the post-nuclear landscape. Ideal for readers looking for post-apocalyptic survival fiction, nuclear disaster, ongoing danger, and a complete multi-book reading experience.
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Welcome to post-nuclear Arizona. Try to stay alive.
College student Jenn Jansen just wants to stay out of World War Three. But today, she’ll have to face it head-on.
On the morning of April 28, 2062, a mysterious power outage leaves Jenn and the town of Flagstaff, Arizona, in the dark and isolated from the outside world. Then five mushroom clouds appear on the horizon, rising above Jenn’s home city of Phoenix.
Panic, fear, and desperation grip Flagstaff and pit its war-weary citizens against the police and against each other. Torn between finding her family in Phoenix and helping her friends in Flagstaff, Jenn is forced to confront the brutal realities of this new, unforgiving world.
Desolation is a post-nuclear survival thriller about Jenn Jansen and her transformation from a normal college student into a post-apocalyptic hero. This box set includes Books 1-5 and can be read as a complete story.
Contains moderate violence and mild language (no hard cursing).
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Best for readers who like claustrophobic horror, distrust, isolation, brutal violence, and apocalyptic stakes.
One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning
Dystopian · Horror
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Called “A bloody fun ride...” by Kirkus Reviews, One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning traps 14 people on a barren North Sea island, where a tragic accident becomes the start of a rising body count. As paranoia spreads and a horrific discovery changes everything, no one knows whether they are facing a killer, mass hysteria, or the beginning of the end. Best for readers who like claustrophobic horror, distrust, isolation, brutal violence, and apocalyptic stakes.
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In One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning, David Moody returns to the world of his Hater trilogy with a new fast-paced, and wonderfully dark story about humanity's fight for survival in the face of the impending apocalypse.
The fewer left alive, the higher the stakes.
Kill the others, before one of them kills you.
Fourteen people are trapped on Skek, a barren island in the middle of the North Sea somewhere between the coasts of the UK and Denmark. Over the years this place has served many purposes—a fishing settlement, a military outpost, a scientific base—but one by one its inhabitants have abandoned its inhospitable shores. Today it's home to Hazleton Adventure Experiences, an extreme sports company specializing in corporate team building events.
Life there is fragile and tough. One slip is all it takes. A momentary lapse leads to a tragic accident, but when the body count quickly starts to rise, questions are inevitably asked. Are the deaths coincidental, or something else entirely? Those people you thought you knew, can you really trust them? Is the person standing next to you a killer? Will you be their next victim?
A horrific discovery changes everything, and a trickle of rumors becomes a tsunami of fear. Is this the beginning of the end of everything, or a situation constructed by the mass hysteria of a handful of desperate and terrified people?
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication.
The First Week
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication. As chaos spreads, their only chance of survival lies in a mysterious desert observatory tied to her family’s past.
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication. As chaos spreads, their only chance of survival lies in a mysterious desert observatory tied to her family’s past.
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Good for readers who want post-apocalyptic survival with city walls, dangerous recruits, infected enemies, and long-series momentum.
Beyond These Walls
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult · Post-Apocalyptic
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Books 1-6 Boxset follows Spike, Matilda, and their friends as they leave the city of Edin for mandatory service beyond the walls, where diseased hordes and a brutal survival rate wait. Good for readers who want post-apocalyptic survival with city walls, dangerous recruits, infected enemies, and long-series momentum.
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Hyper-violent and possessed with a murderous rage, no-one knows where the diseased hordes outside Edin’s walls came from, but they all understand their single-minded purpose …
To spread their virus to the uninfected …
Spike and Matilda, as residents of Edin, are about to serve their six months of mandatory national service. Six months outside the city’s walls where only fifty percent of the recruits survive.
But they refuse to be just another statistic.
Whatever happens, they’re coming home.
At least that’s the plan …
What they’re yet to realise is their chances of survival will become the least of their worries.
Because things in Edin are about to change forever …
Beyond These Walls is a post-apocalyptic epic. Join Spike, Matilda, and their friends as they leave their city for the first time to face the brutal reality of national service. Some of them won’t return, and for those who do, their lives will never be the same again.
This box set includes:
Protectors - Book one of Beyond These Walls.
National Service - Book two of Beyond These Walls.
Retribution - Book three of Beyond These Walls.
Collapse - Book four of Beyond These Walls.
After Edin - Book five of Beyond These Walls.
Three Days - Book six of Beyond These Walls.
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Best for readers who like survival thrillers with multiple viewpoints, EMP fallout, family stakes, and questions about what remains after civilization breaks.
Nightfall
Post-Apocalyptic
Our take
The Complete Series follows Detective Elijah Wade, astronomer Hannah Redman, and other ordinary survivors as a deadly sky event triggers collapse across a six-book post-apocalyptic saga. Best for readers who like survival thrillers with multiple viewpoints, EMP fallout, family stakes, and questions about what remains after civilization breaks.
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THE COMPLETE SIX BOOK SERIES.
Nothing will stop this father from finding his daughter.
Not even the end of the world.
Detective Elijah Wade is on the trail of a serial killer when the skies above Los Angeles erupt into the most spectacular light show humanity has ever seen. And the most deadly. His daughter is in a hospital bed on the other side of the continent, but where does his duty lie now? To her, to justice or to his species?
Astronomer Hannah Redman watches as her colleagues die one by one, victims of a lethal dose of radiation. Can she survive long enough to discover what’s caused the catastrophe and whether it will happen again?
Two sisters arrive at the family cabin deep in the woods for a gathering that never happens. An old woman finds she’s not quite as prepared for the end of the world as she thought and a Mennonite couple remain true to their faith even as the Great Tribulation unfolds around them.
Each of these unique viewpoints has a part to play as the series unfolds.
This series focuses on the individual stories of a range of ordinary people as they struggle to cope with the most deadly event since the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Themes include EMP, preparedness and an examination of the true nature of humanity when the veneer of civilization is suddenly stripped away.
Mankind is on its knees, and the clock is ticking.
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Best for readers who like survival fiction, dystopian danger, violent road journeys, and unlikely teams.
Grace Under Fire
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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Grace survived a terror attack and escaped her college town with one goal: get back to her family. Joined by Tom, a veteran in a tracked wheelchair outfitted for survival, she crosses a hostile post-apocalyptic landscape, with a 4.5-star average from more than 1,700 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like survival fiction, dystopian danger, violent road journeys, and unlikely teams.
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An unlikely team with one goal…
Grace was fast. Grace was tough. Grace could fight with a knife or a gun. She had gear and she had a plan.
After a terror attack led to collapse and chaos she escaped her college town with one goal: get back to her family, even if she had to kill to do it.
Tom was a physically-challenged veteran using a tracked wheelchair outfitted with gun mounts. He was no stranger to pain, bad news, and hard times. Together, the two must brave their way across a hostile, dystopian landscape to find Grace’s family.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Locker Nine, Franklin Horton takes us on a violent post-apocalyptic thrill ride packed with vivid, memorable characters.
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Good for readers who want post-apocalyptic dystopian thrillers with amnesia, captivity, survival stakes, and buried secrets.
Lost
Dystopian · Mystery
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Lost follows Quinn Reynolds as he wakes with no memory of his name, his friends, or the fact that he is six years into the apocalypse, then discovers he may be the key to escaping a dangerous farm where he and four women are trapped, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 90 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want post-apocalyptic dystopian thrillers with amnesia, captivity, survival stakes, and buried secrets.
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Quinn Reynolds doesn't know his name, where he is, the four friends around him... or that it's the 6th year of the apocalypse. And it gets worse from there.
Quinn regains consciousness on a couch surrounded by four strange women. He wonders where he is, what he's doing, and most importantly, who he is. When he finds out the world has been plunged into darkness, his mind is totally blown.
Two of the women are sisters, the other two are their best friends. And somehow they all know him. How? He doesn't recognize a single one of them, nor does he recognize his own name.
Quinn’s told they're on a large farm run by a man named Tony Shaklin. A rich and powerful man, even in the apocalypse, with a nasty temper and four wives. Someone he should know as well..
Tensions escalate on the farm. They are the "hired" help for Shaklin's place. Slaves, unable to leave, the women tell Quinn. Things become desperate as the women are threatened by their boss. A dangerous man is in the area. A man who could ruin Shaklin's "free help" arrangement.
Quinn shudders when he's told the man's name -- it is his own. They need to escape, the four and Quinn. The situation becomes a tinderbox, ready to explode at any moment. Will he be able to leave and lead the women to safety, or will he stay too long and be discovered? His life, their lives depend on his choices.
Lost is the first book of bestselling authors e a lake’s latest series - The Indiana Apocalypse. Will Quinn recover his memory in time to save himself and his friends? Will he discover how he knows Shaklin? And what other secrets from his past are being hidden from him? Read the series for all the answers
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Good for readers who want gritty post-apocalyptic romance with fairy tale echoes, guarded attraction, and survival-driven stakes.
Hooded
Dystopian · Fairy Tale · Political Dystopia
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Hooded follows a woman surviving at a trading post in the flooded hills of post-apocalyptic central Virginia, where her wary connection with a gruff regular named Cade becomes dangerous when his hidden secrets surface. Good for readers who want gritty post-apocalyptic romance with fairy tale echoes, guarded attraction, and survival-driven stakes.
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He might be a wolf in disguise.
Ever since the world fell apart a year ago, I've been doing whatever I can to survive, serving food at a trading post in the flooded hills of central Virginia and sometimes taking men to my room upstairs.
They have to pay, of course.
Cade stops by every few weeks. He's gruff and quiet and not looking for friends, but he always treats me okay. I don't mind having him as a customer. I actually start to like him, which is the last thing I expect in the hellish place the world has become. But Cade isn't the harmless loner he's been pretending to be, and his secrets could drag me into danger.
I thought he was just a regular guy, but all this time he's been hiding a wolf.
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Good for readers who like survival science fiction, strange technology, harsh landscapes, and adapted frontier communities.
7th Sigma
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a desert Southwest territory where self-replicating, solar-powered machines eat metal and can tear through people to get it, Kimble Monroe has learned to survive without the tools most people depend on, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like survival science fiction, strange technology, harsh landscapes, and adapted frontier communities.
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Welcome to the territory. Leave your metal behind, all of it. The bugs will eat it, and they'll go right through you to get it…Don't carry it, don't wear it, and for god's sake don't come here if you've got a pacemaker.
The bugs showed up about fifty years ago--self-replicating, solar-powered, metal-eating machines. No one knows where they came from.
They don't like water, though, so they've stayed in the desert Southwest. The territory. People still live here, but they do it without metal. Log cabins, ceramics, what plastic they can get that will survive the sun and heat. Technology has adapted, and so have the people.
Kimble Monroe has chosen to live in the territory. He was born here, and he is extraordinarily well adapted to it. He's one in a million. Maybe one in a billion.
In 7th Sigma, Gould builds an extraordinary SF novel of survival and personal triumph against all the odds.
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Good for readers who want EMP survival fiction with prison chaos, rescue missions, revolt, and relentless action.
Dark Nation
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Dark Nation collects six post-apocalyptic books about an EMP blast that traps schoolteacher Molly, former Marine Colton, and five students inside a prison while Deb and other survivors face human traffickers, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 250 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want EMP survival fiction with prison chaos, rescue missions, revolt, and relentless action.
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The EMP changed everything. Now, survival is all that matters.
When a powerful EMP blast knocks out power across the country, schoolteacher Molly, former Marine Colton, and the five students they’re supervising on a trip are trapped inside a prison. Surrounded by hardened criminals and with no safe exit, it doesn’t take long for a riot to throw everything into chaos.
Meanwhile, Deb, Colton’s ex-wife, is lucky enough to fall in with a group of determined survivors. But her good fortune quickly turns into a nightmare when her people are captured by human traffickers, led by a vicious madman.
Molly and Colton must escape to safety with their students, while Deb is forced to lead her fellow survivors in a daring revolt. But in this savage new world, danger lurks around every corner. Is there any hope for safety as what’s left of society collapses?
Loyalties are tested, new bonds are forged, and survival is a daily battle in this new world.
This boxset contains books 1-6 of the Dark Nation series, a thrilling post-apocalyptic EMP saga spanning 1800+ pages.
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Good for readers who want literary speculative fiction about gender politics, control, addiction, and resistance.
The Core of the Sun
Dystopian
Our take
A work of "scathing satire . . . that sits somewhere between Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut" (NPR), The Core of the Sun follows Vanna, a secretly intelligent woman in an alternate Finland where independent women are controlled and sterilized, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want literary speculative fiction about gender politics, control, addiction, and resistance.
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The Finnish author of Troll: A Love Story delivers a work of "scathing satire . . . that sits somewhere between Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut" (NPR).
The Core of the Sun further cements Finlandia Award–winning author Johanna Sinisalo's reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country's unique take on it, dubbed "Finnish weird."
In an alternative historical present, The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated to menial labor and sterilized so that they do not carry on their "defective" line. Vanna, raised as an eloi but secretly intelligent, needs money to find her sister, who has disappeared. Vanna forms a friendship with a man named Jare, and they become involved in buying and selling a stimulant known to the Health Authority to be extremely dangerous: chili peppers. Then Jare comes across a strange religious cult in possession of the Core of the Sun, a chili so hot that it is rumored to cause hallucinations—a temptation so enticing that it just might divert the addicted Vanna from her quest . . .
"A chilling tale reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale . . . A fascinating story centered on gender politics." —The Washington Post
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The Feed imagines a world where constant connection collapses into fear, hunger, and suspicion.
The Feed
Dystopian · Techno-Thriller · Time Travel
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The Feed imagines a world where constant connection collapses into fear, hunger, and suspicion. Tom and Kate survive the fall of the technology that once linked every thought and memory, but their fragile safety breaks when their young daughter disappears. This dystopian sci-fi thriller blends post-collapse survival, parental desperation, and a chilling question of identity and trust.
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Nick Clark Windo's "The Feed examines our addiction to technology through the lens of a bleak dystopia . . . A deft and extremely clever work of sci-fi."*
The Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time. It instantaneously links us to all information and global events as they break. Every interaction, every emotion, every image can be shared through it; it is the essential tool everyone relies on to know and understand the thoughts and feelings of anyone and everyone else in the world.
Tom and Kate use the Feed, but Tom has resisted its addiction, which makes him suspect to his family. After all, his father created it. But that opposition to constant connection serves Tom and Kate well when the Feed collapses after a horrific tragedy shatters the world as they know it.
The Feed's collapse, taking modern society with it, leaves people scavenging to survive. Finding food is truly a matter of life and death. Minor ailments, previously treatable, now kill. And while the collapse has demolished the trappings of the modern world, it has also eroded trust. In a world where survival of the fittest is a way of life, there is no one to depend upon except yourself . . . and maybe even that is no longer true.
Tom and Kate have managed to protect themselves and their family. But then their six-year-old daughter, Bea, goes missing. Who has taken her? How do you begin to look for someone in a world without technology? And what happens when you can no longer even be certain that the people you love are really who they claim to be?
*Wall Street Journal bestselling author Joe Hart
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