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  • We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the Second Season by K.C. Wayland, Shane Salk

    We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the Second Season by K.C. Wayland, Shane Salk

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Season two of this action-packed audio drama plunges listeners back into a ravaged world of violence and terror. The hope of a better life forces the survivors of the Tower out into the dissolving world around them. The consequences of past battles leave them struggling not only with each other but the remaining fragments of humanity...
  • Dark Crossing by Thomas A. Watson

    Dark Crossing by Thomas A. Watson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Stinkers have overtaken the world. With civilized society in shambles, white supremacists and gangs roam free, subjugating the free and the innocent. For Lance and Ian, this means they must make a choice: fortify their stronghold and hide, or place some trust in others to fight back and secure their corner of the world...
  • The Apocalypse Revenge by Peter Meredith

    The Apocalypse Revenge by Peter Meredith

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For Jillybean, moments of utter happiness and pure sanity are as fleeting and wonderful as sun-showers at a July picnic. Her time with Granny Annie is one such moment, but as always it ends far too quickly and she is once more thrust back into a world of crushing loneliness and endless despair.Setting out to find a family who will lover, she discovers an orphaned boy of her own age named Chris...
  • We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season by K.C. Wayland

    We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season by K.C. Wayland

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This exciting audio drama is based on an immensely popular podcast that has received hundreds of positive reviews and has had over four million downloads--and counting. For Army Reserve soldier Michael Cross, the world as he knows it ends in an instant. One minute he's in college, and the next rioters are roaming the highway around him, breaking into cars and literally tearing people apart...
  • Valhalla by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien

    Valhalla by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this explosive fourth installment of the popular A Shrouded World Series, Jack is seemingly back from the dead. Mike and Trip are in a desperate bid to help their friend before he falls victim to whatever is plaguing the inhabitants of Valhalla...
  • Reclamation by T.W. Brown

    Reclamation by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Years have passed since the dead rose and wiped out most of the living. Many survivors have gathered in pockets around the world. Some are bent on trying to restore what once was, others with a mind to create something new and better from the ashes of civilization, and then there are those who now thrive in the hellish chaos of lawlessness...
  • Road of the Damned by Tony Urban

    Road of the Damned by Tony Urban

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 2 in the hit zombie series readers have described as, "Stephen King's 'The Stand' meets 'The Walking Dead'."In the weeks after a virus decimated humanity and left fewer than 5,000 people alive in the U.S., a diverse group of survivors struggles to stay alive...
  • Contamination: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Series by T.W. Piperbrook

    Contamination: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Series by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Best-Selling Post-Apocalyptic Series, Contamination - The complete series Books 0-7, available for the first time in one special box set! Over 1,200 pages of reading! The infection has begun, ravaging the American Southwest and leaving chaos in its wake. In this new world, there will be no last meal, no dying wish. The only reward left is to survive another day..
  • This Shattered Land by James N. Cook

    This Shattered Land by James N. Cook

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eric Riordan doesn't look for trouble, but trouble has a way of finding him.Two years have passed since the Outbreak. After joining forces with his friend Gabriel he has managed to stay alive by fleeing to the peaks of the Appalachian mountains. With supplies running low, and enemies gathering, the two survivors are forced to begin their journey west to Colorado...
  • Home by Frank Tayell

    Home by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In an undead world, zombies aren’t the greatest threat. The outbreak began in February. Nations went to war. Governments collapsed. Billions died in the chaos and anarchy that followed. Billions more were infected. They died. They came back. It is now October, and out of the tens of millions who lived in southern England, only ninety people remain...
  • Prepared by Courtney Konstantin

    Prepared by Courtney Konstantin

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She thought she was prepared for the end of the world… until it actually came.Alex Duncan is a mother, a sister— and the daughter of a doomsday prepper...
  • The Loudest Silence by Kate L. Mary

    The Loudest Silence by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the author of the Amazon bestselling Broken World series, comes an exciting new Zombie Apocalypse series...When Regan was a young girl living in the small town of Altus, OK, Kellan was just her brother’s best friend. Then the virus came, turning the world’s population into zombies, and he became so much more. They were only kids, but he saved her. Watched over her. Kept her alive...
  • Dead: Spring by T.W. Brown

    Dead: Spring by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everything hangs by the thinnest of threads. In a DEAD world, nothing is certain and nobody is safe. Friends have fallen, some enemies have been defeated only to be replaced by yet another. As the first year of the zombie apocalypse ends and a new year begins, can a person hope that the coming of spring can be a starting point for re-birth? If not..
  • Darkness Before Dawn by T.W. Brown

    Darkness Before Dawn by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winter has gone, but the world is no less inhospitable.The survivors of this first winter now face some of the darkest and most soul-wrenching choices thus far. From the outskirts of London to an island refuge in Oregon, small groups struggle to build a new life.Kevin recovers to a realization that shatters his dreams, yet he must stand up and take the role of leader…or die trying...
  • S.T.Y.X. Humanhive by Arthur Stone

    S.T.Y.X. Humanhive by Arthur Stone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the Hive. A place where entry is easy – and escape impossible. Where mere survival is so daunting that nine out of ten new immunes perish before the end of their first week. Where reaching even the one year mark earns you the title of veteran...
  • Exodus in Black by Joshua Guess

    Exodus in Black by Joshua Guess

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Five years have passed since the collapse of civilization. The dead still walk the land, but humanity has proved itself strong and resilient. Large settlements have begun to trade, manufacture, and rebuild what was lost. Kell McDonald and his friends continue to work in isolation. On the verge of a breakthrough in their research for a cure, secrecy has never been more vital...
  • Praying for Grace by M. Lauryl Lewis

    Praying for Grace by M. Lauryl Lewis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trying to survive in a land ruled by the dead, Zoe finds herself more alone than ever after the death of her lover. Time goes by and life becomes even more intolerable. Never sure of who she can trust, and her ability to sense the dead drastically altered, she is forced to face some major realities as what remains of the group of survivors moves to higher ground...
  • The Gem Cardoza Chronicle by Eric A. Shelman

    The Gem Cardoza Chronicle by Eric A. Shelman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is the second book in the Dead Hunger series. Just thought we'd make it clear in case you found this one first . . .As Flex, his niece Trina, Gem, Hemp and Charlie brave the wild world teeming with the walking dead, they make up the rules as they go along. Flex Sheridan was an electrician before the world took a nasty turn; Gem, an artist...
  • Escape by Owen Baillie

    Escape by Owen Baillie

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third instalment in the best-selling post-apocalyptic zombie series set in Australia. Battered, heart-broken and with infected amongst them, the main group begins the long journey south to Melbourne in pursuit of serum supplies and passage towards a safer life beyond...
  • Dead Instinct by T.W. Piperbrook

    Dead Instinct by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can be read as a standalone or companion to the Contamination series...! Don't trust what you eat. Don't trust what you drink. The infection is spreading... In a world plagued with violence and infection, Ken and Roberta Smith want nothing more than to find their son. Having been on the road for four days, they must now cross the remaining three hundred miles of desert wasteland to get to him...
  • Die For Now by Bob Howard

    Die For Now by Bob Howard

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No one can be totally prepared for a zombie apocalypse. No matter what preparations are made, some flaws can only be overcome by luck. When a group of well funded people decided years before to prepare for the end of civilization by building impenetrable shelters, they unknowingly left a legacy for a small band of survivors...
  • Days 54 to 61 by Amy Cross

    Days 54 to 61 by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Having been rescued from the forest, Elizabeth is shocked to find herself living with a small group of survivors. But when she's plunged into an unlikely reunion, she begins to realize that the task of saving humanity might require difficult decisions. Meanwhile, Thomas discovers the truth about another group of survivors...
  • Survive for Now by Bob Howard

    Survive for Now by Bob Howard

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The end of civilization did not come suddenly. There was no flash of light, no blast from a nuclear explosion, and no mushroom cloud. There was no earthquake, no furious storm, nor cataclysmic event such as a meteor or massive solar flare. The end came gradually as a few people attacked and bit family members...
  • Last Stand of the Dead by Joseph Talluto

    Last Stand of the Dead by Joseph Talluto

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How do you fight a foe that is fast, smart, and relentless? How do you prepare for an enemy that doesn't know pain, fear, or mercy? How do you stop the dead from rising again, ripping apart everything you've tried to rebuild? John Talon and his crew race across the state, trying to stop the wave of zombie children from destroying the fragile communities struggling to rebuild after the Upheaval...
  • Dark Grace by M. Lauryl Lewis

    Dark Grace by M. Lauryl Lewis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Now months into the zombie plague, a group of survivors are dealing with broken trusts, evolution of the living dead, and the horrors of the evil side of humanity. The group becomes separated and struggles to reunite. The infection is spreading. The death toll is tragically high...
  • War of the Living by Joshua Guess

    War of the Living by Joshua Guess

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the early days after causing the end of the world, Kell McDonald was just trying to survive. Time passed, and along with others, a new world grew. Society began to be rebuilt. Years have passed since the mutated organism known as Chimera caused the dead to rise, and on the ashes of the old world, terrifying new forces have come into play...
  • Winter by T.W. Brown

    Winter by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Winter is coming... As survivors around the world struggle to get their feet under them in a world overrun by the walking dead, a new problem rears its head. As unstoppable as any horde of zombies, the seasons march on, heedless of the fragility of the human race. The first winter is approaching...
  • Siege & Survival by T.W. Brown

    Siege & Survival by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The first winter has come, and with it, new problems. No longer are the zombies the biggest threat to survival. With the global infrastructure gone, people are forced to do whatever it takes to survive...even the unthinkable. Steve faces his toughest decision yet as he tries to lead his people through one nightmare after another...
  • Dead: Fortunes & Failures by T.W. Brown

    Dead: Fortunes & Failures by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Steve has seen the worst in himself...and others. Now, it seems that zombies aren't the only threat to the lives of his companions. Will he lose those he loves to the walking dead...or a murderer?Kevin is the last geek standing, and a reunion with an old acquaintance puts him back in charge of a group of survivors...
  • The Ark by Tony Urban

    The Ark by Tony Urban

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They survived the zombie apocalypse, but that might be the least of their problems… After discovering The Ark, a mysterious island compound founded by Ramey's father, Wim and his companions soon realize that it's not the Utopia they'd imagined and find themselves oppressed by the brutal and often bizarre leadership...
  • Dead Will Rise by Joshua Guess

    Dead Will Rise by Joshua Guess

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dead Will Rise The Fall: Book Two Kell McDonald killed the world. It is a truth that haunts him every day of his life. It is a fact etched so deeply in his mind that every waking moment is haunted by his sins. But for his choices, the dead would not walk. Men would not travel the decaying highways hunting for victims...
  • Unleashed by Dirk Patton

    Unleashed by Dirk Patton

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    John Chase has just arrived in Atlanta on a business trip when America experiences the worst attacks in history. Nuclear bombs destroy cities and the widespread release of nerve gas sends the majority of the surviving population into a murderous rage...
  • Zfinity by David Achord

    Zfinity by David Achord

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zombie Rules Book 3It's now two years since the zombie apocalypse changed the world. Survival is precarious for Zach Gunderson and his friends. They are encountering zombies who are evolving into something more than mindless automatons and the group dynamic is threatened by the revelation of a murderer in their midst...
  • The Last Refuge by T.W. Piperbrook, Bobby Adair

    The Last Refuge by T.W. Piperbrook, Bobby Adair

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not all ancient secrets are lost. Father Winthrop’s insanity and eloquence turn a rabble of starving militiamen into an army with a new purpose. With the spore eating away at William’s humanity, he finds a new place in the world as the survivors from the Ancient City expeditions discover a remnant of the past that could change everything...
  • Alive for Now by Bob Howard

    Alive for Now by Bob Howard

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for B01A4YRRTI Set on the coast of South Carolina, an unknown infection has caused people to die and come back to life as reanimated corpses, attacking any living person. This is the story of the survival of one man who was the benefactor of a shelter that helped him to live through the onslaught of the infected dead...
  • Days 9 to 16 by Amy Cross

    Days 9 to 16 by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Finally realizing that she has to leave the city, Elizabeth sets out alone along a deserted road. Eventually, however, she encounters some fellow survivors, and before long she's taken to a remote farmhouse where a small community is struggling to take shape. She soon discovers, however, that this particular farmhouse hides some dark secrets...
  • Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou

    Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For dinosaurs, it was a big rock. For humans: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). When the Earth is hit by the greatest CME in recorded history (several times larger than the Carrington Event of 1859), the combined societies of the planet’s most developed nations struggle to adapt to a life thrust back into the Dark Ages...
  • Hellifax by Keith C. Blackmore

    Hellifax by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Red Adept Select – “Voted Outstanding in Genre”A serial killer stalks the ice-glazed streets.Half-frozen deadheads choke the avenues.Infected vermin rise from the labyrinth of sewer systems, hungry for warm flesh.And a handful of survivors struggle to escape and find someplace safe. In his hunt for Tenner, Scott discovers he must contend with all of this, before things truly get worse.Welcome...
  • Harvest by Frank Tayell

    Harvest by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A castle can be made safe from the undead, but not from the people inside the walls. It is eight months since the outbreak. In the anarchy and chaos that came with the undead, civilisation was destroyed. In the wars that followed, the planet was nearly ruined. Billions died. Only a few thousand survived. Fifty people have found refuge in the Tower of London...
  • Hard Rain Falling by William Allen

    Hard Rain Falling by William Allen

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Amy and Luke have survived four months in a savage land completely disrupted by the massive power outage, but this last leg of their journey will demand all of their courage as the pair navigate a desperate landscape. Now, new factions begin to take action and sudden violence signals a change in someone’s policies...
  • Reunion by Frank Tayell

    Reunion by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Surviving is easy. It’s the next part, living, that’s hard.It is seven months since the outbreak. The world is in ruins. Britain is a radioactive wasteland peopled by the undead. The few survivors cling to the hope that they might wake up tomorrow. For most, that is all they have left. But Nilda has something more; the chance that her son is alive. At least he was, months before...
  • The Stand by Iain Rob Wright

    The Stand by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    What do you do when your rescuers can’t rescue you…The fungus cannot be stopped. Not even by an army.Ryan and Aaron finally reach ‘safety,’ but soon learn that there is far more at stake than just their own lives. Other people are in peril; people who will surely die without rescue. It’s time for Ryan to decide what kind of big brother he wants to be...
  • Infected by Bobby Adair

    Infected by Bobby Adair

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Slow Burn: Infected picks up the story of Zed, Murphy, and Jerome where Slow Burn: Zero Day ended.All three have all been infected but have not succumbed to the most pernicious symptoms of the virus. They’re not the mindless cannibals that most infected are. Nevertheless, their band of survivors, fearful about the trio’s infections, have ostracized them...
  • A Time To Die by Mark Wandrey

    A Time To Die by Mark Wandrey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They came from the night sky, lighting the heavens like the promise of salvation. But they didn’t bring deliverance…they brought something far, far worse. Something that turns people into mindless, cannibalistic monsters. And it’s spreading. A reporter follows her story of unspeakable horror south of the border and finds it’s worse than she imagined...
  • Prescient by Derek Murphy, D.S. Murphy

    Prescient by Derek Murphy, D.S. Murphy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if I told you you'd be dead in a year? Sounds crazy, right? Because nobody can see the future. Nobody but me. You'd think time-travel would be a useful gift for cheating on tests and winning the lottery—stuff like that. I might have enjoyed my ability...if I hadn't discovered earth will soon turn into a wasteland. Bodies rotting in the streets. Wilderness eating away at my hometown...
  • ZC One by Chris Harris

    ZC One by Chris Harris

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was intended to eradicate the common cold; instead it eradicated most of the human race. A genetically modified virus killer mutates, transforming everyone it infects into zombies. As it rapidly spreads across the globe, small groups of survivors battle to stay alive and escape the growing hordes of flesh eaters. Tom, Becky and their two children are on a family holiday when the virus hits...
  • Call To Arms by Joseph Talluto

    Call To Arms by Joseph Talluto

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Zombie Wars is the heart pounding story of the war that took place between books four and five of the White Flag of the Dead Series. John Talon and his friends have fought hard to make a small piece of the country safe for people to live in. But hundreds of communities are living in fear, wondering when the next wave of undead will come, and worrying they will not survive it...
  • Resistance by T.W. Piperbrook

    Resistance by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE IS TO RESIST After freeing Dan and Quinn, Sandy Duncan must fight to escape the lumberyard while protecting the others she came to save. The infected lurk outside the gates...
  • Red Scare by Scott Nicholson

    Red Scare by Scott Nicholson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a post-apocalyptic world, Rachel Wheeler is caught between who she is and who she's becoming. A bizarre mutation has her humanity hanging by a thread, especially when the Zaphead inside her wants to kill her friends and lover...
  • No Man's Land by Jacqueline Druga

    No Man's Land by Jacqueline Druga

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "It wasn’t supposed to happen like this." When Leah and Calvin found out they were expecting, they were over the moon. That day would be one to remember forever… but for more reasons than one. That was the day the world changed. That was the day joy turned to fear. A deadly virus broke out, with many of those infected becoming violent and uncontrollable. And it was spreading fast...
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