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Primal by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey're called Mr. No One and Mr. Nobody, and wherever they go, death follows. Lee Harden is out for blood. After a month, the cartel is looking over their shoulders and jumping at shadows, worried about the madmen in their backyard, who seem obsessed with little else but killing cartel members... -
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Monsters Everywhere by Steve Higgs
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTempest Michaels has a vampire problem.He’s an old hat at this game and dealing with cases like this are his speciality. Except this time …… the vampires are his clients.When someone starts targeting members of the local vampire Live Action Role Play club, there’s only one person they can think of to turn to – their old nemesis, Tempest Michaels... -
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Carnage by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBetween love and savagery, only one can survive - and only one will prove stronger than death. ALPHA TEAM LOOKS THE DEVIL IN THE EYE After recovering Patient Zero, Alpha must escape Africa to end the ZA once and for all... -
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Defiant by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon't ever let it break you.The United Eastern States is crumbling. The fragile house of cards that Lee Harden and Angela Houston have built has begun to fall. Lee is up against a ticking clock, as he is recalled from Texas and given the last thing in the world that he wants: A promotion... -
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Extinction Darkness by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe thrilling adventure continues in book 4 of the Extinction Cycle: Dark Age. After devastating losses and new intel about the enemy, Central Command is running out of options to prevent the total collapse of the Allied States. A scientific breakthrough and new allies might be the only hope of saving the country, and the world... -
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Extinction Ashes by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe ashes have fallen and the dust clears to a startling discovery. . . . Beyond the reach of the nuclear infernos, the masterminds survived and continue their assault on outposts across the Allied States. Timothy Temper and Sergeant Ruckley narrowly escaped one of those attacks. On the run from hostile forces, they fight to get an urgent message to command-the monsters aren't the only threat... -
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City of Stin by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKill the infection! Kill the Infected! In the aftermath of the battle for Monk’s Island, Murphy has been nursing Zed back to health in a remote house at the west end of the lake. But every day they see helicopters cross the sky, heading south and then back north again.Zed wonders if the helicopters are proof that not all civilization has collapsed... -
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Grind by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTime for Revenge It’s time for revenge. Zed’s animosity toward Mark has been simmering through the deaths of too many of his friends. Zed realizes he can no longer pretend he’s able to take the high road and rise above his hate. He sets out to track the horde of naked Whites in order to find Mark and kill him.Of course, none of Zed’s schemes work out as planned... -
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Torrent by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSurvive the infection! Survive the Infected! Following his none-too-soon reunion with his friends at the safe house, Zed is hoping things can finally fall into a stable routine, but in post-virus Austin, things are far from stable... -
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Refugees by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA SOLDIER'S MISSION IN A WORLD GONE TO HELL: SURVIVE, RESCUE, REBUILD He has fought the fight, and run the race. But the enemies never stop coming, and the race has no finish line. It has been three months since Captain Lee Harden found the survivors at Camp Ryder. With winter looming, Lee is on the verge of establishing Camp Ryder as a hub of safety and stability in the region... -
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The Apocalypse War by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Action-Packed Conclusion to the Undead World Series!The people of the Estes Valley have found their peace destroyed as they are attacked by the single greatest army left in the world. Not only do they have to contend with an army of men equipped with the latest hi-tech military gear, they also have to battle a horde of undead half a million strong... -
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Fractured by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis is the destiny of those who stand for others. Their honor will be bought in blood and pain. The Camp Ryder Hub is broken. Lee is nowhere to be found, and his allies are scattered across the state, each of them learning that their missions will not be as easy as they thought... -
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Extinction Inferno by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe government said the Variants were dying off...That the beasts would be extinct in a matter of years...That the Allied States had returned to prosperity and freedom ...The government was dead wrong. Deep under the cities, the Variants weren't just hiding, they were breeding... -
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Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMonster Hunter International might be the premier monster eradication company in the business, but they’ve got competition. When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a World War Two weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert... -
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Extinction End by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHope rises in the hearts of those still left standing, but safety seems to be just an illusion. In a single night of shattering terror, Plum Island is destroyed, and key scientist Dr. Kate Lovato is abducted.The end has arrived...Almost seven weeks have passed since the Hemorrhage Virus ravaged the world... -
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Extinction Age by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook III in Nicholas Sansbury Smith's #1 bestselling and top-rated Extinction Cycle Series continues the fight for survival!On the eve of extinction all seems to be lost, but there is still one final hope...Operation Liberty has failed. Humans are losing the war. With no other option, General Kennor decides to pull back the troops and give science a second chance... -
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Extinction Evolution by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere's a storm on the horizon...Central Command is gone, the military is fractured, and the surviving members of Team Ghost, led by Master Sergeant Reed Beckham, have been pushed to the breaking point. Betrayed by the country they swore to defend and surrounded by enemies on all sides, Team Ghost has one mission left: protect Dr. Kate Lovato and Dr... -
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Southlands by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAfter being sequestered to a bunker to recover from his wounds, Lee Harden is finally going topside with his fellow Project Hometown Coordinator, Terrence "Tex" Lehy. Lee wants to ally the UES with Texas, in order to combat the threat of a powerful oil cartel to the south. But Tex's methods raise serious questions, and Lee quickly discovers that Texas has its own set of problems... -
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Rage on the Rails by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBook 3 of 3 The finale of the Zombie Road tale. It's been a month since the outbreak and the survivors of the zombie apocalypse have started a new life in a walled city. There are still a few enemies that need to be dealt with, the kind that can think and plan, and they can be more devastating than a horde of the undead... -
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Dead Fire by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsDead Fire picks up following an infected attack on Sarah Mansfield’s fortified house, during which 3 people seek shelter with the Zed Zane and his fellow survivors. In the confusion, however, Murphy is gunned down, and an unthinking, emotional Zed strikes out to enact revenge.Unfortunately, the shooting and commotion have only attracted more Whites... -
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Bloodbath on the Blacktop by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook 2 in a thrilling new series. The people that tried to kill the world almost succeeded. They were fiendishly clever but they didn’t take into account the vets, the truckers and the two-fisted fighters who didn’t know how to give up. Gunny and his band of survivors continue their journey along the Zombie Road, saving as many as they can along the way... -
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Aftermath by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNothing has gone according to plan.To Captain Lee Harden, Project Hometown feels like a distant dream and the completion of his mission seems unattainable.Wounded and weaponless, he has stumbled upon a group of survivors that seems willing to help. But a tragedy in the group causes a deep rift to come to light and forces him into action... -
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Warrior's Fate by Walt Browning, Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSanctuary is an illusion ...Retired SEAL John Eric Carver and his war dog Shrek are part of a small group of survivors in a world where a man-made virus has ravished the planet. Isolated at a Boy Scout camp in the mountains outside of San Diego, the small cadre of warriors have kept their isolated community safe... -
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Storm of Ghosts by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor years, exiles from North Korea, China, and Russia have terrorized the Western Seaboard of post-Outbreak America. And for years, the remnants of U.S. military forces have struggled to defeat them. No more. After U.S... -
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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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Harden by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt’s been three years since Lee Harden emerged from his bunker into a world gone mad. Governments have fallen. And new ones have taken their place. In the United Eastern States, Lee and his team of battle-hardened operatives walk a tightrope of survival, keeping their fledgling society safe from the creatures beyond their gates--and from the enemies within... -
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Extinction Shadow by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe top-rated hit series that sold a half-million copies returns in the next season of the Extinction Cycle. Welcome to the Dark Age. Survivors thought the extinction cycle ended, but a powerful evil lurks in the shadows... Eight years ago, an engineered virus ravaged the globe, infecting and transforming humans into apex predators called Variants... -
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Fall of Night by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe sequel to 'Dead of Night', bringing back beloved characters Desdemona Fox and Billy Trout as they race against time to quarantine a zombie epidemic while caught in a military strike.Stebbins Little School is full of bodies. It's unthinkable to Desdemona Fox... -
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Pandemic by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious.The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload-a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race... -
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Extinction Edge by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA bioweapon designed to save the world...A scientific discovery that will alter human history...And a new threat that will bring humanity to the Edge of Exctinction.The dust from Dr. Kate Lovato's bioweapon has settled. Projections put death counts in the billions... -
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Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPOST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION by Sean LiscomIn the wake of the cataclysmic events that reshaped our world in 2020, a sense of relief washed over us all. By late 2023, I think we were ready to just live life again. I know I was. It was a time to make new friends and put the past to rest. Rayne and I hadn’t known each other long, but we were building a solid friendship, nothing more... -
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The Queen of the Dead by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Corsairs have been driven away but only temporarily. Jillybean knows they'll be back in even greater numbers, lusting for vengeance. Yet she is trapped on the hilltop surrounded by thousands of zombies and worse, she is out of medicine and fast becoming dangerously unpredictable... -
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Fear by Ronald Kelly
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt was a legend in Fear County... a hideous, flesh-eating creature - part snake, part earthbound demon - that feasted on the blood of innocent children in the cold black heart of the Tennessee backwoods. But ten-year-old Jeb Sweeny knows the horrible stories are true. His best friend Mandy just up and disappeared... -
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The Change by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSurvival is just the beginning...Having escaped the hospital, Tom must face a new enemy: himself. New questions arise as he travels through the white wasteland... -
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The Ghosts of Winter by Christopher Coleman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of They Came with the Snow and the new and popular standalone novel, They Came with the Rain, comes The Ghosts of Winter.When the Corrupted breach the cordon, David Willis and his family flee to a remote lake cabin in Arkansas... -
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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... -
![Cost of Survival by Walt Browning, Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Cost of Survival by Walt Browning, Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFear does not stop death. It stops life. John Eric Carver and Shrek have fought their way through a viral apocalypse and into the aftermath. Working with fifty other survivors in the remote mountains outside of San Diego, they have created a community safe from the monsters called Variants... -
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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... -
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Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne woman. One Great Dane. A whole lot of zombies.Jane Finch wishes her problems ended with a bad commute and no coffee. Instead, she and Schrodinger, the Great Dane she’s supposed to be training, emerge from a locked room to discover a city changed for the dead...Categorized as:
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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... -
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Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFood. Booze. Weapons. Armor. And any toilet paper he can find.It's been a rough time for Gus Berry. He barely survived the city of Annapolis as its population underwent a violent transformation, leaving everyone he knew or loved either dead or undead.Things aren't much better now, though. In fact, things might have become much worse... -
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Cruel World by Joe Hart
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHidden away from the world by his famous father, Quinn Kelly strives to find meaning in his life while struggling with a deformity that has kept him from leaving the only home he has ever known. On the eve of his departure a sudden and deadly virus sweeps across the nation, killing nearly all it touches. Within days Quinn is left to fend for himself in an empty world... -
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Dark Carousel by Joe Hill
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJoe Hill, "the best horror writer of our generation” (Michael Koryta), returns with a brand new short story.A balmy summer night in 1994. Four teenagers out for an evening of fun on the boardwalk take a ride on the “Wild Wheel” – an antique carousel with a shadowy past – and learn too late that decisions made in an instant can have deadly consequences... -
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Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWASHINGTON D.C. HAS BEEN DESTROYED In the wake of a Kaiju assault that left the nation’s capital in ruins, Jon Hudson, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal, is preparing his team for an uncertain future... -
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Project Maigo by Jeremy Robinson, Jeffrey Kafer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBOSTON IS IN RUINSJon Hudson, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal division, is haunted by Boston’s destruction at the hands of Nemesis, a three-hundred-foot tall monster with the heart of a murdered little girl, Maigo. In the time since Boston fell and Nemesis retreated to the ocean’s depths, Hudson has helped prepare the United States against future attacks... -
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The Numbing by Flint Maxwell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Supernatural Apocalypse NovelEvil awaits.After the devastating events on Prism Lake, Grady and the other survivors head south, hoping to find safety in one of the rumored "Cities of Light."But as they embark on their journey, they quickly discover the monsters aren't the only things out in the snow they must fear.They may not even be the worst things.. -
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The Apocalypse Survivors by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis is not an uplifting tale of heroes and heroines. Get that out of your head now. It's a tale of survival. It’s a tale of dried blood beneath your nails, of new pain, of gnawing hunger and unrelenting loneliness, of fear and hatred, and yes, of courage...Categorized as:
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Contagious by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of "Infected" comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity's secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda... -
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Beyond Exile by J.L. Bourne, Ronald M. Hahn
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe terrifying sequel to Day by Day Armageddon—for fans of The Walking Dead. "J.L. Bourne is the new king of hardcore zombie action!" (Brad Thor)Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe; there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh... -
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Destroyer by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDestroyer finds Zed saying goodbye to one friend and pressing forward with two new ones to whom we are introduced in Book 2 – Infected. Mandi, whom Zed and Murphy rescued from the bunker, is immune to the virus. Russell, whose home the others plundered in search of food and other supplies, is also a slow burn, but lower-functioning, childlike and docile...
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