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Sanctum by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill Any Sanctuary Stand? With both the Naked Horde and the Survivor Army destroyed, Zed and Murphy make their preparations and head to College Station to do their small part in salvaging humanity’s future. But the post-virus world isn’t kind to humans or their plans and nothing they find on their journey is what they expected... -
Well Fed by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWar pigs. Road savages. And the crumbling asphalt of the open highway. After nearly four years, the zombie epidemic has almost burnt itself out. Gus’s new life on a communal farm is peaceful. The daily routine of policing the fields is rarely disrupted by straying undead. His drinking binges are over. Long days have thrown time over the memories of Annapolis. But this will all change... -
Escape From The Center Of The Earth by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEscape from the Center of the Earth is the final edition of the blockbusting Center Earth trilogy, closing with a mind-bending climax.'Help me, it’s Ally. Please help me.'A ghostly, sobbing voice is detected from the depths of Russia’s Kola super deep borehole – 9 miles down. A Russian team is dispatched in a desperate rescue mission to find the woman... -
Crimson Deep: A Thriller by Anthony M. Strong
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSomething ancient has found new prey… Us.Deep in the Florida woodlands, a pair of recreational divers are attacked and killed. Miles away, a research team captures an impossible sight on their remote-operated submersible. Meanwhile, a team of bank robbers speed toward their Florida hideout... -
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Mist City by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new storyline... A new hero... Same deadly universe... A SHOOTER WITHOUT A TARGET. The man who calls himself John Smith once had a reason to fight: He was committed to a crusade he was willing to kill and die for. Trained by one of the best gunmen alive, Smith’s natural instincts with a handgun were honed to almost perfection... -
Rising by K.R. Griffiths
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDan Bellamy has lost everything: his wife, his home, his country; perhaps even his sanity. The only thing he has left is vengeance for the creatures who took his world away, and he intends to visit it upon them, no matter the cost. As the eyes of the world turn to the destruction in England, Dan believes that his presence in the United States will provoke an immediate response from the vampires... -
Aftermath by Devon C. Ford
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe undead horde can’t be stopped. Only contained. The virus has spread from the shores of England to the rest of Europe... -
Still of Night by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead rose. We fell. But not everyone thinks the war for survival is over. Heroes rise in times of crisis, and STILL OF NIGHT tells their stories… DAHLIA -a bullied high school girl with a love for edged weapons goes from victim to powerful leader as the zombie apocalypse sweeps through her world... -
Sundown by K.R. Griffiths
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1 night. 1 city. 8 million people. No warning. No safety... Having survived the massacre aboard the doomed cruise ship Oceanus, all Dan Bellamy wants is peace; a chance to go home and attempt to put his life - and his mind - back together. He's not going to get it. Dragged back to the UK by the remaining members of the Rennick family, Dan finds himself once more pitched into a nightmare... -
The Dead Years - RETRIBUTION - Book 7 by Jeff Olah
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmazon Bestselling Post-Apocalyptic Series The End of the World was Only the Beginning. What would YOU do... How would YOU Survive? Book 7 (RETRIBUTION) begins with Megan and Eleanor having been abducted by those who ravaged their beach-side community and subsequently charged off into the cover of darkness... -
The Scattered and the Dead Book 2.5 by Tim McBain, L.T. Vargus
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCatch up with Izzy, Erin, Baghead, and Delfino in the fifth volume in The Scattered and the Dead series. Endings and beginnings. The road trip from hell continues as planned. Delfino shares revelations from his past as Baghead begins to recover from his injury.But there's a problem. They're being followed... -
The Dead Years - COLLAPSE - Book 4 by Jeff Olah
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmazon Bestselling Post-Apocalyptic Series The End of the World was Only the Beginning. COLLAPSE picks up with the men attempting to put together the pieces of their failed rescue mission and the women trying to make sense of Justin's current condition. Will he recover or become something much worse? Mason's captors aren't leaving anything to the imagination...Categorized as:
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Ultimate Attack by Michael P. Spradlin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe action-packed series by Michael P. Spradlin returns. Each book covers a genetically engineered superpredator wreacking havoc on the environment. It's all come to this. Dr. Catalyst has had enough of Emmet Doyle's meddling... -
Moonstruck by Graeme Reynolds
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe people of High Moor are united in horror at the latest tragedy to befall their small town. As dawn breaks, the town is left to count the cost and mourn its dead, while breathing a collective sigh of relief. John Simpson, the apparent perpetrator of the horrific murders, is in police custody. The nightmare is over... -
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Abyss by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe explosive sequel to the Greig Beck blockbuster FATHOMLESS.Cate Granger is chasing ghosts.The monster shark she once encountered was a remnant of the ancient world - one that had escaped an underwater lair previously sealed off for millions of years. At great cost, Cate and her allies had killed the beast.So, no more ghosts, no more shadows. All gone.Or so Cate thought... -
Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA family of survivors who fight back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization. Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few Marines... -
Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea meets Frankenstein in this inventive YA fantasy from award-winning author Frances Hardinge The gods are dead. Fifty years ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. Nobody knows why. Now, even coin-sized scraps of dead god are worth a fortune because of the strange powers they're said to possess...Categorized as:
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Kraken Rising by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Arcadian returns to the dark ice in a reprisal of one of his first and most deadly missions. But this time the stakes couldn't be higher.In 2008, a top secret US submarine went missing on its test voyage off the coast of Antarctica... -
The Void by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSomething has traveled for a billion years to find us - and now it has. In space, Commander Mitch Granger and his crew are nearing the end of their scientific mission - along with their covert satellite photography for the military. As they prepare for reentry, an unknown object emerges from the void; the name given to deep, dark space. The object proves impossible to evade... -
Dinosaur Lake II :Dinosaurs Arising by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrehistoric creatures have again invaded Crater Lake National Park …and this time there’s more than one. DINOSAUR LAKE II: Dinosaurs Arising by Kathryn Meyer Griffith Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for thirteen years now and thought the days when he’d had to fight a rogue dinosaur that lived in the caves below the lake were long over... -
Blood and Rain by Glenn Rolfe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGilson Creek, Maine. A safe, rural community. Summer is here. School is out and the warm waters of Emerson Lake await. But one man's terrible secret will unleash a nightmare straight off the silver screen. Under the full moon, a night of terror and death re-awakens horrors long sleeping... -
Ancient Enemy by Michael McBride
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSani Natonaba's ancestors have lived in these canyons for more than seven hundred years, but they aren't the only ones. When he awakens to the bleating of his family's sheep being slaughtered, he learns that something is stalking this isolated corner of the reservation, a predator unlike any he has encountered before, one that attacks with alarming stealth and ferocity... -
Helicoprion by Michael Cole
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings by witnesses, the injuries appear to be more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac rather than shark bites.Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature... -
When Giants Collide by Jake Bible
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTeam Grendel has made some enemies. The Team of ex-Navy SEALs, scientists, and highly trained misfits may have saved countless lives, but they are now paying for their heroism. Pursued relentlessly across the globe by an unknown group, Team Grendel finds themselves disavowed by the United States and other sovereign nations for their work outside legal channels... -
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Dead Meat: Day 2 by Nick Clausen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead have awakened.Driven by insatiable hunger.In eternal search of fresh meat.The infection spreads like the plague.Nothing stands between the undead and humanity... -
Blackmore by Jeff Olah
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmazon Bestselling Post-Apocalyptic Series The End of the World was Only the Beginning. BLACKMORE picks up as the group leaves the stadium. Beaten and battered, they head for the beach house. With the fate of their son now a complete mystery, Mason and April must fight to keep him from becoming something no one in the group wants to speak about... -
The Dead Years - VENGEANCE - Book 5 by Jeff Olah
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmazon Bestselling Post-Apocalyptic Series The End of the World was Only the Beginning. What would YOU do... How would YOU Survive? VENGEANCE starts unlike any of the previous four books. We see the infection through a different set of eyes and meet two new characters...Categorized as:
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Behemoth Island by Jake Bible
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRunning from the world, their ship crippled, their supplies dangerously low, Team Grendel follow Ballantine’s lead to a promised paradise. A place where they can hide and regroup, rest and plan the next step in their lives. If only life were so simple...Categorized as:
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Rise of the Dead by Jeremy Dyson, John R. Crosthwaite
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBlake was never one for taking chances. He lived in a world of statistics and probabilities where everything could be controlled. That world disappeared the day the dead got up and began attacking the living. Now he must struggle to survive and to make sense of a new and chaotic world that is quickly spiraling out of control... -
Black Rust by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWitness eliminated. Evidence erased. Is it still murder?Two decades ago the Brisbane strain ravaged the global population. Countries collapsed. Institutions fell. The world progressed in some ways, devolved in others, but struggled forward under a different, more brutal set of rules, where not everyone had the right to freedom or life... -
Outage Super Boxed Set: Books 1-5 Plus Epilogue by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFOR A LIMITED TIME, SAVE 50% OFF BUYING THE BOOKS INDIVIDUALLY! OVER 500 5-STAR REVIEWS ACROSS THE SERIES! ____________________________________________ Contains: *Outage *Outage 2: The Awakening *Outage 3: Vengeance *Outage 4: The Reckoning *Outage 5: The Change *EPILOGUE STORY Control ABOUT OUTAGE:When an early snow ravages the small town of Plainfield, the residents are stripped of heat,... -
The First Bird: Episode 1 by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMatt Kearns, linguist, archaeologist and reluctant explorer from Beneath the Dark Ice and Black Mountain returns in his first full-time adventure. And this time he doesn't have Alex Hunter to save him when things get weird... -
The First Bird: Episode 2 by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe South American Boreal: one of the last truly unexplored jungles on our planet. In its dark heart is an ancient crater basin, sealed in by a living cage, making it a time capsule for an ancient, deadly ecosystem.Matt Kearns, Carla Nero and a team of scientist explorers have found their way in. In the crater’s sunken interior are creatures from a primordial nightmare... -
Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA series of bizarre occurrences suddenly plague the island of Cielo Nublado. A dead whale washes ashore riddled with enormous bite marks. A fishing charter is reported missing, jet skiers vanish, and a yacht is found mysteriously ravaged after some kind of enormous impact.Chief of Police Nico Medrano tries to investigate the matter... -
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Arcadian Genesis by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn aeon ago it crashed into the frozen earth. Millennia later it was removed from the icy soil, still functioning. They opened it … they shouldn't have... -
Jim's First Day by Joseph Zuko
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn a day like any other, Jim Blackmore finds himself at ground zero of the zombie apocalypse. He is forced to run a blood-soaked gauntlet through a city overrun by an insurmountable horde of the dead in a desperate attempt to reach his wife and two small children. As he fights to get home he discovers that the living are just as dangerous as the dead... -
Hammer of God by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the coalition of Allied Forces established an international zone in Iraq, they meant to bring peace to the region. They were succeeding – until the moment something hulked into the zone and detonated a nuclear bomb.The last images from the area prior to the blast are not of drones or the trail of an ICBM... -
Fathomless by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCARCHARODON MEGALODONThe largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumors of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumors explode into brutal and terrifying reality. BARANOF ISLAND, GULF OF ALASKA, 1952 Jim Granger is searching for a place of legend... -
Deep, Dark by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis chilling short story is the prequel to The Dragon Factory, the second installment in Maberry's action-packed Joe Ledger novels.Before Baltimore cop Joe Ledger goes up against two competing groups of geneticists looking to continue the master-race program in The Dragon Factory, he must battle another foe using human test subjects for his sinister plans... -
Wolf Hunt by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo thugs. One innocent woman. And one VICIOUS frickin' werewolf. Meet George and Lou, thugs for hire. The kind of intimidating-yet-friendly guys who will break your thumbs, but be polite about it. Their latest assignment is to drive across Florida to deliver some precious cargo to a crime lord. The cargo: a man in a cage... -
Absolution by Jeff Olah
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmazon Bestselling Post-Apocalyptic Series The End of the World was Only the Beginning. What would YOU do? In Book 8 (ABSOLUTION), the longest installment of the series, our group of survivors are lost.Reeling from the sudden demise of one of their own, and attempting to put a stop to the destruction wrought by Marcus Goodwin, Mason must avoid becoming a victim himself...Categorized as:
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Gorgon by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAn ancient evil awakens...Alex Hunter has been found - sullen, alone, leaving a path of destruction as he wanders across America. Only the foolish get in the way of the drifter wandering the streets late at night.Across the world, something has been released by a treasure hunter in a hidden chamber of the Basilica Cisterns in Istanbul... -
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsThe men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth...Categorized as:
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Mountain Man by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAugustus Berry lives a day-to-day existence comprised of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable day when “they” will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress. Living on the outskirts of a city and scavenging for whatever supplies remain after civilization died two years ago, Gus knows that every time he goes down into undead suburbia could be his last... -
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Safari by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAugustus Berry lives a day-to-day existence comprised of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable day when “they” will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress. Living on the outskirts of a city and scavenging for whatever supplies remain since the demise of civilization, Gus knows that his next visit to undead suburbia could be his last... -
Arena 13 by Joseph Delaney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe first book in the exhilarating new fantasy sequence from Joseph Delaney, the multi-million-selling author of The Spook's Apprentice.Welcome to Arena 13. Here warriors fight. Death is never far away . . .Leif has one ambition: to become the best fighter in the notorious Arena 13. Here, punters place wagers on which fighter will draw first blood... -
Black Mountain by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSome legends are real. Alex Hunter, code named Arcadian, wakes up with no knowledge of who he is, in the care of a woman he doesn't recognise, in a country not his own. But there is a calling deep within him, to return home to Black Mountain. Formed a billion years ago, the Appalachian's Black Mountain hosts a terrible legend... -
Book of the Dead by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAnd the earth shall fall before they rise....Massive sinkholes are opening across the country—each larger and deeper than the previous one. First the family pets go missing, and anyone living near one of the pits is reporting strange phenomena—the vibrations, sulfurous odors and strange sounds rising up from the stygian depths. Then come the reports of horrifying "things" rising from the darkness... -
Kronos Rising by Max Hawthorne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Steve refused to surrender. Even though he knew the creature was right behind him, he wouldn't quit. He would make it. Just as that beacon of hope began to shine down upon him, the bright sun overhead vanished from view. Confused, he gazed wide-eyed as the daylight grew dim. Then he realized the ultimate horror: the creature had overtaken him, its jaws opened wide.""He was in its mouth... -
Infestation by William Meikle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt was supposed to be a simple mission. A suspected Russian spy boat is in trouble in Canadian waters. Investigate and report are the orders. But when Captain John Banks and his squad arrive, it is to find an empty vessel, and a scene of bloody mayhem...
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