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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...
  • 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...
  • Tamer: King of Dinosaurs 5 by Michael-Scott Earle

    Tamer: King of Dinosaurs 5 by Michael-Scott Earle

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Control dinosaurs. Tame women. Rule the world. Separated from his tribe and alone in Dinosaurland, Victor Shelby must make his way through endless miles of deadly prehistoric wilderness so that he can return to his beautiful alien women. But on his way, he makes a discovery that will develop the technology of the tribe ten fold. Now he just has to live long enough to bring it back...
  • 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...
  • Vanguard by Apollos Thorne

    Vanguard by Apollos Thorne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After surviving the trials of Freedom, Lucius enters the next stage of the military's super soldier creation scheme. Medieval weaponry and gritty fantasy combat are a thing of the past. He must bring what he's learned to the modern battlefield.Fighting futuristic tech isn't his only challenge...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Interlude-Brandon by Terry Schott

    Interlude-Brandon by Terry Schott

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brandon Strayne.Brilliant computer programmer, businessman, and world leader.Where did this mysterious man come from?This volume details his history and rise to power.Before there was the Game...there was a boy....This takes the story of the Game even further by viewing how it all started!A must read for all fans of the Game is Life Series...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Quantum Beginnings by Joe Kuster

    Quantum Beginnings by Joe Kuster

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Artificial intelligence was nearly mankind’s last invention. AI took off like a rocket, then when it racked up an impressive death toll, it crashed before it could blossom and took most high-tech industries with it. Resistance and fears became deep-set. Two decades after the infamous Rev. 4.6 incidents, humanity hasn’t quit dreaming of the wealth and power that could be at their fingertips...
  • Without Law 9 by Eric Vall

    Without Law 9 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Spring is here, and Tav and his clan of survivors set out to clean up from the destruction of Vermont's winter With no gasoline, they will have to find new ways to travel, and they will cross paths with survivors who were strong enough to make it through the bitter cold. And these new enemies will do whatever it takes to survive the spring...
  • 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...
  • City Escape by Theresa Shaver

    City Escape by Theresa Shaver

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Five went by Land and Five went by Sea...the rest stayed in the City...this is their story. Mrs. Moore knew that leaving the city was the best chance that she and her students had to survive the EMP pulse but when half of her charges refused to leave she knows she has to stay and try and protect them...
  • 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...
  • Unstoppable Arsenal by Jeffery H. Haskell

    Unstoppable Arsenal by Jeffery H. Haskell

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Amelia knows where parents are, and now it's time to go get them. But will this be the end of her 14-year quest? Not likely! If she can rescue her parents that will only be the first step into a much larger world. A world where everything is not as it seems and even the staunchest allies may be enemies. Amelia has one shot to stop a maniac bent on world domination...
  • 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...
  • Virtual Prophet by Terry Schott

    Virtual Prophet by Terry Schott

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Inside the Game, players struggle to survive in a world where technology no longer functions. On Tygon, fans are unable to view what is occurring inside the Game. Trew and Danielle rush to save both realities, but they are unable to know what the other is doing. The fate of reality depends on a Game, and time is about to run out..
  • All That Survives by Jack Hunt

    All That Survives by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The journey of survival continues in book two of the bestselling Lone Survivor saga… Four months ago, an EMP brought the power grid down and crippled the country, leaving ferry pilot, Landon Gray and off-the-grid teen, Beth ‘Bluebird’ Sullivan alone on a North Carolina mountain, scrambling to survive. The unlikely duo escaped death, but are far from safe...
  • 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...
  • Resurrection by Tony Corden

    Resurrection by Tony Corden

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In ‘Nascent’, she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves...
  • Blackout Trail by Linda Naughton

    Blackout Trail by Linda Naughton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Doctor Anna Hastings is no stranger to disasters, having spent much of her career as an aid worker in conflict zones around the world. Yet when an electrical phenomenon known as an EMP brings down the power grid, Anna faces catastrophe on a scale she never imagined. She must learn what it means to be a doctor in a world deprived of almost all technology...
  • Allegiance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Allegiance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The war for the Metal Islands is over, but the search for survivors has just begun.After a long and bloody battle, legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez reigns as the dutiful but reluctant new king of the islands. Advised by a council of former sky citizens as well as Cazadores, he works to assimilate the two societies peacefully. But not all Cazadores have accepted the new order...
  • 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...
  • Volper (Alpha Rome Book 1): LitRPG Series by Ros Per

    Volper (Alpha Rome Book 1): LitRPG Series by Ros Per

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    PLEASE NOTE: This book was already released on Amazon and enjoyed considerable success with LitRPG readers. However, the inadequate amateurish translation of the sequel ruined the reading experience for many of the author's fans...
  • After the Roads: Sidney’s Way, Volume 1 by Brian Parker

    After the Roads: Sidney’s Way, Volume 1 by Brian Parker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The survivors learned how to fight the infected, but not how to defeat the virus. The Texas Safe Zone is home to four million refugees, trapped behind the walls of Fort Bliss – too many people and not enough food. In a desperate gamble, the Army unit responsible for securing the walls begins to cast its net far and wide for pre-outbreak food storage locations. Not everyone will make it home...
  • Future Retold by Daniel Pierce

    Future Retold by Daniel Pierce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fight to build a free world. Face new enemies. Slay new monsters. Meet new women. With Aristine at his side, Eden Chain technology will connect Jack's new people as they get ready to go to war, but Kassos-- the city of intrigue and fear-- is not what it seems. There's a new threat in the region, known as the Procurators, and they are using the past against Jack and his people-- nanobots...
  • Future Reshaped by Daniel Pierce

    Future Reshaped by Daniel Pierce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jack Bowman never leaves a job unfinished. When Jack and the girls discover a cache of cutting edge technology, he-- and his women-- will use it to explore the grim landscape of an ever-growing world. On a reconnaissance flight over open desert, a chance encounter will reveal that there is a lot more to the planet than he expected...
  • 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...
  • Renegade by Alex Knight

    Renegade by Alex Knight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kaiden Moore is on the run.A fugitive both in real life and the game world of Nova Online, his only hope is to follow the trail of virtual breadcrumbs left behind by Bernstein, the man whose murder Kaiden was framed and jailed for. The data Bernstein gathered may be the only way to expose the corruption of the Party and finally clear his name...
  • Rebellion by Miranda Bridges

    Rebellion by Miranda Bridges

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Secrets are powerful.And my feelings for this female might be the greatest one of all.Selene might be the only thing I want more than my freedom.Except she's an enigma.A riddle I can't make sense of,but want to solve.When I engage her in a battle of wits,the female plays along.Yet I know she's hiding her motives.And her feelings.It's going to be harder than I thought to discover her secrets...
  • Homesteading by Simon Archer

    Homesteading by Simon Archer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the world ended, Henry certainly had his hands full keeping his clan alive. After all, it's no easy task bringing electricity back to the world, much less raising animals, expanding the farm, and everything in between. Still, given enough time, he could do it all.There's just one problem...
  • Wicked by Hope Hart

    Wicked by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When I left Agron, I wanted only one thing:To make the Grivath pay for what they did to us. When our space fuel lasts just long enough for us to reach the hub planet Brexos, it seems like everything is falling into place. But Brexos is run by the machiavellian Malakaz- an alien who now controls our fate with the swipe of one clawed finger...
  • Shadows by Terry Schott

    Shadows by Terry Schott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for B00MJB6DIQ The Game is Life - Book 5Dawn belongs to a secret group of teenagers who play a cloak and dagger game on their cell phones.Her world is turned upside down when the players' actions begin to affect reality, and not in good ways..
  • Fragmented by Terry Schott

    Fragmented by Terry Schott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Game is Life - Book 8 Cooper has made mistakes. Lives were lost. Realties destroyed. Invited to join a mysterious and powerful group known as Wielders, he must learn whether his new powers are a blessing, or a curse...
  • Future Rebuilt by Daniel Pierce

    Future Rebuilt by Daniel Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The future must be rebuilt.Victorious over an evil warlord, Jack Bowman will keep collecting women and weapons as he builds the first free city in a broken world.The Free Oasis is growing, but not without drawing the attention of raiders who want the future for themselves...
  • 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...
  • Tamer: King of Dinosaurs 6 by Michael-Scott Earle

    Tamer: King of Dinosaurs 6 by Michael-Scott Earle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Victor, the self proclaimed King of Dinosaurland, has successfully fought off the first ambush attack from the distant enemy tribe and returned to his own fort carrying three stegos worth of malachite.But there is no time to rest.Victor knows that his tribe is still vulnerable, and he’ll have to change his game plan if he wants to protect his women...
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  • Allison's Secret by D. Stalter

    Allison's Secret by D. Stalter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Allison has a secret. Like any farm wife, she is prepared for bad storms, bad times, and bad luck. But, even her husband is unaware that she is more prepared than the average farm wife. (But don't ever call Allison a prepper!) Riley and Will are motorcycle buddies on a mission to rescue Riley's nephew who's been kidnapped by his father...
  • Tears Of The World by Boyd Craven

    Tears Of The World by Boyd Craven

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A 17 year old in Alabama is forced into making a snap decision that he'll have to live with for the rest of his life. He knows just enough to survive, but it tests his resourcefulness.David looks deep within his soul and sets out to prove to the Jackson's that he's not the monster everyone thought he was, and wants to win their trust...
  • Brace for Impact by Harley Tate

    Brace for Impact by Harley Tate

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What if an EMP was only the first strike? With a credible threat to the United States and a plane stuck on the tarmac, Grant Walton is thirty seconds from full-blown panic mode. He’s the only one in the airport who knows the truth. When the power goes out, he can’t waste another second. It’s the beginning of the end and every man for himself. A nuclear attack will rip the country apart...
  • Fallout by Chris Morphew

    Fallout by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The time for pretending is over. The Shackleton Building has been turned into a concentration camp, and the last free people in Phoenix are forced into hiding. The fight is over unless Jordan and Luke can figure out where the Co-operative is hiding Tobias. And Jordan has to find a way to protect Luke before Peter rages out of control … or else history is doomed to repeat itself...
  • Earth Force by Shemer Kuznits

    Earth Force by Shemer Kuznits

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On the first day, a mist descended from the heavens blanketing earth. On the second day, a cryptic message, ‘Infusion commencing’, appeared in the corner of everyone’s eyes. On the third day, the sick were healed and the crippled walked again. On the fourth day, celebration and joy spread across the globe. And on the fifth day, the warping began… There was no warning...
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