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  • End of Summer by S.M. Anderson

    End of Summer by S.M. Anderson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a viral apocalypse kills 97% percent of the people on the planet, the survivor's humanity is hanging by a thread. Fighting over the leftovers of civilization, what's needed is a hero that's more killer than saint. The people he finds become family and that is very bad news for those who think they are running things...
  • Edge of Anarchy by Kyla Stone

    Edge of Anarchy by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    What lines will you cross to keep your loved ones safe?Three weeks after the nation's power grid goes down, chaos reigns. Food supplies have dried up. Fuel is running low. And the bleak, brutal winter is relentless.Fall Creek has forged a shaky peace, but the cost for safety proves higher than some are willing to pay. The town is a powder keg waiting to explode...
  • Edge of Defiance by Kyla Stone

    Edge of Defiance by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Freedom demands a price...Weeks after an EMP attack devastates the United States, the country is falling apart.Hannah, Liam, and the others have survived the brutal cold and violent adversaries,but the threat has never been greater. Enemies from within have taken control of the town--including what little remains of the food...
  • All That Escapes by Jack Hunt

    All That Escapes by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The fight to survive continues across the United states in book three of the bestselling Lone Survivor saga... A month and a half on the Appalachian trail and Beth ‘Bluebird’ Sullivan and Landon Gray thought they'd seen the worst of society. With a mysterious stranger in their midst, trouble at every turn, and miles to go, the unknown will be even more terrifying...
  • The Devil's Wrath by C.M. Owens

    The Devil's Wrath by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets are revealed, lies are exposed, and a daunting fate comes to life... It's all been adding up to this. They know the fight isn't over. Misel is still out there, plotting and waiting. But they aren't prepared for what else they'll find. And they learn just how cunning, ruthless, and calculated he really is...
  • New Dawn of War by C.M. Owens

    New Dawn of War by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Just when everything proves to be perfect, old grudges come to rest in the lives of Kace and Arena. Though Kace has never seemed like the type to make enemies, some things are often beyond one’s control. His secretive past comes to light, and Arena struggles to adjust with some of the things she learns. Arena finds she has enemies of her own - some she foolishly chose to overlook...
  • Rules of Engagement by Jack Hunt

    Rules of Engagement by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rules kept them alive, but a single choice could destroy them. After discovering the identity of the mysterious Morning Star, and dividing Camp Olney, the Ford family prepare for an imminent attack from Jude Lawson. However, the real threat might not come from raiders but a powerful and ruthless group intent on making Whitefish home, and its residents captives...
  • Days of Terror by Jack Hunt

    Days of Terror by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The fight for survival ends in the final installment of the EMP Survival series...The nation is in turmoil, resources are rare, and the desperate are terrifying.After two dangerous weeks on the road, Elliot and his family arrive at the compound in Texas. But with a war on the horizon, and threats at every turn, they soon discover their journey may have been in vain...
  • All That Rises by Jack Hunt

    All That Rises by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Who will survive in the fourth and final book in the bestselling Lone Survivor saga? After a hellish journey on the Appalachian trail, Landon Gray reunites with his wife, Sara only to learn of her infidelity, but that’s only the beginning of their troubles. Although all is calm in the coastal community of Castine, Maine, death is at their doorstep...
  • Cyclops  (Reckless Kings MC) by Harley Wylde

    Cyclops (Reckless Kings MC) by Harley Wylde

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Leigha -- To say my dad is overprotective is too mild a description. Add in all my honorary uncles in the Dixie Reapers MC and going on dates is next to impossible. So when Lyssa invites me to visit her at the Reckless Kings in Tennessee, I jump at the chance. Maybe I can finally experience life a little. I know my family goes after bad men, the kind who hurt women and kids...
  • Alone at the End of the World by M.P. McDonald

    Alone at the End of the World by M.P. McDonald

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    While a deadly virus races through the world’s population, survivors struggle to find others who are still alive because nobody wants to be Alone at the End of the World. Thirteen-year-old Ethan should be practicing his skateboard moves, not watching his family members die, one by one. He knows he could become a victim of the evil infection at any minute...
  • Jagger's Choice: Ruthless Sinners MC by L. Wilder

    Jagger's Choice: Ruthless Sinners MC by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    *Jagger’s Choice was previously released in the Very Naughty MC Christmas Anthology.*Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Sell L. Wilder brings you a new addition to the Ruthless Sinner series. Jagger will show readers just how hard it is to resist a bad boy with a good heart.He hadn’t meant to let her in. She was just supposed to be his ticket out...But she became so much more...
  • Rules of Darkness by Jack Hunt

    Rules of Darkness by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They learned the rules, then broke them to survive. One month after a crippling attack on the power grid, the country is still in darkness. As a new wave of violence sweeps the nation, the Ford family are soon drawn into a battle for survival with an unknown menace. Tasked with stopping the threat to protect the small town of Whitefish, Montana, Corey soon discovers a traitor is among them...
  • Ghost Towns by Bella Forrest

    Ghost Towns by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Continue the journey in the thrilling penultimate book of The Child Thief series (as we move toward the grand finale in Book 6!)Now that Robin has discovered a lead on her daughter, all she can think about is tracking her down. And her birth parents—whom Robin never dreamed she’d have the opportunity to meet...
  • As We Break by Jack Hunt

    As We Break by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No internet. No communication network. No power. Now survive.Ten days after a massive cyber attack tears a hole in the nation's infrastructure and brings the country to its knees, Sam, Anna, Mason and Amanda are preparing for the worst as the town of Breckenridge, Colorado is about to break...
  • Free Four: The Full Story by KATO13

    Free Four: The Full Story by KATO13

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Maybe I'll even be strong. No matter what, I am free. Finally Free...
  • Endless Winter by Riley Miller, Grace Hamilon

    Endless Winter by Riley Miller, Grace Hamilon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A brutal new Ice Age covers the Earth…When an experiment to reverse climate change goes disastrously wrong, Jarred and his daughter Hope are forced to head south in search of warmth. This man-made eternal winter shows no signs of stopping, and with temperatures continuing to plummet, fears of a new ice age drive survivors into a panic...
  • Quell by Clare Littlemore

    Quell by Clare Littlemore

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One battle. One chance to change the future. Having survived the deadly virus that endangered her new community, Quin is devastated to learn that the same sickness threatens The Beck. With Adams and his Shadow Patrol in charge, Cam and her friends are in mortal danger. The rebels know they’re not strong enough to take on The Beck’s government alone...
  • Divided We Stand: Book Four of the What's Left of My World Series by C.A. Rudolph

    Divided We Stand: Book Four of the What's Left of My World Series by C.A. Rudolph

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The decision to splinter backfires.When Lauren and the others leave the safety of the valley in search of supplies and aid, they're trapped, captured, and tortured. Escape seems impossible...if they're to survive, it will only be by rescue, and not without blood on their hands and tears in their eyes...
  • Need You Now by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Need You Now by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The most beautiful girl in the world, and she’s fiery mad at me. It’s not really my fault. I’m a reporter. Digging up stories is my job. Never in a million years did I expect my latest piece to create an enemy out of the one woman I’d give anything to date. She’s tough, beautiful, and tied to my past in a way I didn’t imagine possible...
  • Titan : Mississippi Chapter by Harley Wylde

    Titan : Mississippi Chapter by Harley Wylde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Delilah -- I love my family. I really do. But having three older brothers and an overprotective father doesn’t make it easy to have a life. They’ve run off every guy I’ve ever tried to date. It’s time I made a life of my own, even if that means I have to leave home to do it...
  • Sojourn by Cecilia London

    Sojourn by Cecilia London

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Haunted by her experience at The Fed, Caroline tries to create a new identity. A new present, a new future. She can’t escape the memories that dog her when she least expects it, leaving her mired in a depression that she finds difficult to escape. Caroline needs to regain her physical and mental strength if she intends on surviving the journey to find the elusive rebellion...
  • Standing Toe to Toe: An Enemies To Lovers Romance by Weston Parker

    Standing Toe to Toe: An Enemies To Lovers Romance by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s the devil.I mean it, and I would know, because I’ve worked with Kathryn Rouche for almost a decade. In those ten years I’ve seen her for what she is: a cut-throat, take no prisoners, have no mercy business woman whose goal is to take what is rightfully mine. We’re both vying to make Partner at our agency but only one of us will come out on top...
  • Rescuing Rebekah by Shauna Allen

    Rescuing Rebekah by Shauna Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***This book was previously published in Amazon Kindle Worlds*** Tanner “Maverick” Richardson has learned the hard way not to take life too seriously—except for his job as a member of an elite United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance Unit. This calling gives him a purpose and helps to cleanse the stains of a past he’d rather forget . .
  • Hope Sparks by Harley Tate

    Hope Sparks by Harley Tate

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Six weeks into the apocalypse, would you have hope? From an emergency landing, to a full-blown riot, to a militia gone rogue, Colt and Walter have survived it all. Joining forces, their group heads toward Walter’s cabin and the promise of a new life. But mother nature has other plans...
  • This We Will Defend by C.A. Rudolph

    This We Will Defend by C.A. Rudolph

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This We Will Defend is the long-awaited follow-up to indie post-apocalyptic / dystopian fiction author C.A.Rudolph's best-selling debut novel What's Left of My World. "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks...
  • Extreme by Joan Gelfand

    Extreme by Joan Gelfand

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hope Ellson is from the wrong side of the tracks, but her genius transcends class. When Hope joins FearToShred, a Silicon Valley extreme gaming startup, Hope's mission is to groom the scrappy company for prime time. Enter Doug Wiser, her very married ex. While the two work in tandem, nefarious forces are at work behind the scenes...
  • Getting Home by Ryan Westfield

    Getting Home by Ryan Westfield

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you do to get back home?Max and Mandy are stranded miles from camp. Their vehicle has been burned, along with most of their gear. The road ahead means danger and the unknown.Dan and Olivia are holed up in a suburban home. She's gravely injured, and Dan waits anxiously for the soldiers to return...
  • Projector for Sale by Steven Decker

    Projector for Sale by Steven Decker

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Emily Noland is a trauma survivor who never remembers her dreams. While searching for a job, her lifelong interest in cinema is sparked by an ad about a projector for sale, and something happens that mysteriously changes everything.Emily not only starts remembering her dreams, she finds herself transforming them into reality, and her life inexplicably begins to blossom...
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    female-mc  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  travel
  • The Wanted by Lauren Nicolle Taylor

    The Wanted by Lauren Nicolle Taylor

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you be willing to sacrifice to get what you Wanted? It's the question facing both Rosa and Joseph as they are pushed and pulled in unimaginable directions.It's the question Superior Grant answered with a resounding, -Anything and everything.-The only thing they want is to be back in each other's arms...
  • Days of Panic by Jack Hunt

    Days of Panic by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    When the power grid fails, what will you do to survive?After an EMP obliterates the nation's electrical grid on New Year's Eve, it's not long before society unravels and panic ensues. As the lights go out and silence spreads over the city that never sleeps, four ordinary strangers; a bike messenger, a homeless person, a support rep, and an ex-convict must forge a connection in order to stay alive...
  • Days of Danger by Jack Hunt

    Days of Danger by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Months after the EMP, would you still be alive?Six months after the EMP, and the collapse of the United States, no one is safe. In Lake Placid, Elliot and his family have survived the winter, lost their home and are still struggling to stay alive...
  • Chaos Comes by Harley Tate

    Chaos Comes by Harley Tate

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two weeks into the apocalypse, would your switch be flipped? Colt Potter's a no-nonsense air marshal who doesn't hesitate to use his skills. When he sets off on his own, leaving the comfort of a warm bed, good looking woman, and the University of Oregon behind, he's ready to be a solitary man. Rescuing a fifteen-year-old girl is the last thing he needs...
  • MICHIGAN FALL by L.A. Bayles, Boyd Craven Jr.

    MICHIGAN FALL by L.A. Bayles, Boyd Craven Jr.

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you do if there was an EMP attack today? How would you survive, not only against the oncoming winter but against those who are desperate or greedy and want what you have? What would happen when all of the checks and balances that support the law are gone?Because of her semi-rural location and a handful of good neighbors, Rose Winters and her family are better off than those in the...
  • Darkest Night by Kyla Stone

    Darkest Night by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The end is near...Logan and Dakota must prepare for the fight of their lives in order to defeat an enemy more powerful than they've ever faced.The lives of everyone they love are on the line.  The stakes couldn't be higher.Will they have what it takes? Or will the cost of victory be too terrible to bear?Darkest Night is the final book in the riveting Nuclear Dawn post-apocalpytic series...
  • Days of Chaos by Jack Hunt

    Days of Chaos by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Two weeks without power, would you still survive? After the lights went out across the nation, Elliot, Jesse, Maggie and Damon fought off the desperate as they made their way back to Lake Placid. Rayna barely survived an attack by home invaders and Gary struggled to maintain order in a town gripped by panic...
  • Sun & Smoke: An Endless Winter Novel by Theresa Shaver

    Sun & Smoke: An Endless Winter Novel by Theresa Shaver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 1 Snow & AshBook 2 Rain & RuinBook 3 Sun & SmokeSkylar Ross and Rex Larson just settled into a new way of life when a simple mistake changes everything. General Bill Mallor, Skylar's Godfather, should have been a welcome sight when he and his men roll into town and save them...
  • The Embers of Hope by Nick Jones

    The Embers of Hope by Nick Jones

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alternate cover for this ASIN can be found hereAfter narrowly escaping the Shiryaevo Vault, Nathan O’Brien is on the run, adapting to life without Jennifer Logan. In his possession: a powerful mind control device known as the Histeridae and evidence of the Hibernation Program’s true agenda...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  sci-fi
  • Emerging Chaos by Grace Hamilton

    Emerging Chaos by Grace Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No power. No lights. A world in chaos…When a Coronal Mass Ejection causes an EMP catastrophe that shuts down power worldwide, Melanie Pearson must embark on a dangerous journey to reunite with her husband and daughter. But to earn a spot in a secure fortress along the way, she agrees to help her boss find his own son first...
  • Feral Recruit by Ginger Booth

    Feral Recruit by Ginger Booth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She survived. That's not good enough.When Ebola struck Manhattan, Ava Panic was a bright high school sophomore. Two years later, Ava's still kicking. Also hitting, biting, and gouging eyes.Nine out of ten didn't make it. Half the survivors are feral teens like Ava. During the Starve, their gangs terrorized the city...
  • The Ophidian Horde by Ryan Schow

    The Ophidian Horde by Ryan Schow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The EMP is real. The unraveling of society is beyond perilous. With the city in ruin, injuries to her party and a sharp loss of resources, Cincinnati McNamara looks to Indigo for help in forming a new homestead, a place where she can tend to the wounded and safeguard her family...
  • The Maze Runner: by James Dashner | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense

    The Maze Runner: by James Dashner | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Maze Runner: by James Dashner | Summary & Analysis (The Maze Runner Series, Book 1) by Book*Sense This is a Summary & Analysis of The Maze Runner by James Dashner. Award-winning author James Dashner’s The Maze Runner shows the influences of the author’s broad reading...
  • Bad Boy Love Affair: A Bancroft Billionaire Brothers Novel by Ali Parker

    Bad Boy Love Affair: A Bancroft Billionaire Brothers Novel by Ali Parker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My new assistant is the type of girl to make the naughtiest parts of me wake up.She’s supposed to be there to help me figure out this new casino I bought.But instead, I’m ogling her every move and trying to figure out how to buy up all of her assets.Success can take a back seat to the plans I have for this girl.Lucky for me, my last name buys me a lot more than I deserve...
  • Protecting Carissa by Shauna Allen

    Protecting Carissa by Shauna Allen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cody “Kid” Wilbanks is a loner. Quiet. Observant. Meticulous. The youngest of his highly trained United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance team, he knows he is often underestimated, but that’s only made him work harder to earn his place among this family of deadly warriors—his brothers—the men he’d lay down his life for without a moment’s hesitation...
  • Chaos Evolves by Harley Tate

    Chaos Evolves by Harley Tate

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A month into the apocalypse, would you still be alive? Colt survived an emergency landing, a standoff with a rogue militia, and more than his share of bullets. With the threat of danger around every corner, leaving the city is his only choice. But with seven people relying on him, Colt discovers the forest is deadlier than the streets...
  • Origins by Isamu Fukui

    Origins by Isamu Fukui

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fifteen years ago, the Mayor of the Education City was presented with an unwelcome surprise by his superiors: twin six-month-old boys. As the Mayor reluctantly accepted the two babies, he had no way of knowing that they would change the city forever….Raised in the comfort of the Mayoral mansion, Umasi and Zen are as different as two brothers can be. Umasi is a good student; Zen an indifferent one...
  • Solar Storm by Rob Lopez

    Solar Storm by Rob Lopez

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When disaster strikes, a family must fight to reunite. The biggest solar storm in recorded history will hit Earth, and the resulting EMP pulse will fry electricity grids and disable fragile electronics. Transmission wires will melt, transformers will explode, modern vehicles and aircraft will cease to work. In less than a minute, the world will be taken back two centuries...
  • Battle by Tom Abrahams

    Battle by Tom Abrahams

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All he wants is peace. All he finds is war. Marcus Battle is a wanted man. No matter where he goes or what he does, he can't escape those who aim to kill him. But as he fights off one would-be vigilante after another, a new threat emerges. It's a threat worse than the viral Scourge which plunged his world into a dystopian nightmare and it could give rise to second apocalypse...
  • Searching for Shelter by Stephanie Mylchreest, Misty Zaugg

    Searching for Shelter by Stephanie Mylchreest, Misty Zaugg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No food. No shelter. No way out but through.A calamitous pair of storms.Two women on the run from their past caught in the whirlwind.They'll either stand and fight - or be consumed in the aftermath.***Twin hurricanes obliterate the eastern coast of the United States, bringing with them a blight that devastated America's breadbasket...
  • Fated by Teri Terry

    Fated by Teri Terry

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm just one girl. What can I do?Sam's cosy life as daughter of the Deputy Prime Minister is about to end. These are turbulent times. Borders have closed and protests are turning violent. The government blames the country's youth, and is cracking down hard. Mobile phones are blocked, gatherings are banned and dissent is brutally crushed.Sam is torn between family loyalty and doing what is right...
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