The Last War Series by Ryan Schow

San Francisco is collapsing. The McNamara family is scattered across a city at war. They’re riding the hard edge of a civilization facing extinction and they are far from safe. With the population in swift decline, life has become a death sentence. The McNamara’s are an ingenious, resilient bunch, however, and they refuse to take the collapse of the modern world lying down... moreSan Francisco is collapsing. The McNamara family is scattered across a city at war. They’re riding the hard edge of a civilization facing extinction and they are far from safe. With the population in swift decline, life has become a death sentence. The McNamara’s are an ingenious, resilient bunch, however, and they refuse to take the collapse of the modern world lying down.Desperate to save her family, her life in constant peril, Saint Francis Memorial ER nurse, Cincinnati McNamara, is tackling a new, morally bankrupt reality. As the modern world crumbles before her eyes, she will fight for a husband who will stop at nothing to protect his family, a teenage daughter who will do anything to forget the horrors she’s survived, and a brother who is fresh out of the military and shaped by a war he just left behind.Cornered in the killing fields, stuck between three evils and forced to fight, this once ordinary family will attempt the extraordinary: they’ll try to escape a world now backsliding into a nightmarish landscape more reminiscent of the stone ages than the once famed city by the bay.The Last War is a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller about an ordinary group of survivors struggling to escape San Francisco in the face of insurmountable odds, an abysmal loss of life and the dawn of a new, post-apocalyptic dark age. less

You met her at the end of The Last War, but who is the archer? How did she come to save the McNamara’s from certain death/enslavement? Meet Indigo in her insane rise from obscure teen to the enigmatic archer in a new thriller, titled The Zero Hour: Indigo.The Zero Hour: Indigo is action packed post-apocalyptic survival fiction at its finest... moreYou met her at the end of The Last War, but who is the archer? How did she come to save the McNamara’s from certain death/enslavement? Meet Indigo in her insane rise from obscure teen to the enigmatic archer in a new thriller, titled The Zero Hour: Indigo.The Zero Hour: Indigo is action packed post-apocalyptic survival fiction at its finest. Not only do you get to know this badass huntress on day one of the fall of San Francisco, The Zero Hour: Indigo is a rip-roaring ride through hell, a wildly entertaining ride that sets up critical events set to take place in The Ophidian Horde.This story is technically Book 1.5 in The Last War series. It can either be read after The Last War or after The Ophidian Horde. less

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.Indigo, however, is a bruised soul with an irrevocable need to stop the Ophidian Horde and its ilk from overtaking the city... moreThe 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.Indigo, however, is a bruised soul with an irrevocable need to stop the Ophidian Horde and its ilk from overtaking the city. The only problem: she’s waging war on an enemy too enormous and too ferocious to handle on her own. She needs the McNamara’s help. Their numbers aren’t enough, but times being what they are, they’ll have to make do...In this next installment of The Last War series, survival has never been more treacherous, and the fact that an EMP counter-strike turned San Francisco into a post-apocalyptic nightmare isn’t an easy pill to swallow. As our ragtag group of survivors adjust to their new surroundings, they soon realize that to live you have to fight, and fighting to win means becoming something you’re not. less

Reeling from the events in The Ophidian Horde, this battered faction of survivors struggle to coexist in the hope of finding safety in a community. The Ophidian Horde is pitiless and resourceful, however, and now they have a name and a target: Indigo. The McNamara’s suffered grievous injury, and now Cincinnati must not only tend to her own injuries, but to those of her family as well. Not all afflictions are the same, though... moreReeling from the events in The Ophidian Horde, this battered faction of survivors struggle to coexist in the hope of finding safety in a community. The Ophidian Horde is pitiless and resourceful, however, and now they have a name and a target: Indigo. The McNamara’s suffered grievous injury, and now Cincinnati must not only tend to her own injuries, but to those of her family as well. Not all afflictions are the same, though. Whether it’s a bullet hole or a broken heart, a teenage crush or a desperation to belong, the fall of civilization will draw out both the best and the worst of those closest to her, a painful truth Cincinnati is quickly coming to terms with.Blindsided by a drone attack at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, TX, nothing matters more to Marine Pilot Jagger Justus than getting home to Lenna and the boys. But a young girl with hostage scars and a bleak future will change everything. Jagger must save a life at the risk of his own, but whose life is really being saved? And can he find his family in the midst of a city bogged down by wide-scale destruction? This death-defying journey from Texas to San Francisco will exact a brutal toll, one not everyone will survive.The fourth installment of The Last War series unites a new set of survivors in this hard-hitting post-apocalyptic survival series. No one truly knows how a nuclear EMP will affect society, but one thing remains true: humans are unpredictable animals capable of great violence and profound love. Strap yourself in for another action-packed, roller coaster ride through the dark side of the apocalypse. less

An extinction level event is unleashed by Artificial Intelligence in a war against humanity, an epic adventure that puts ordinary survivors in the cross-hairs of the most ruthless enemies mankind has ever known…A nurse, an archer, a few retired vets and an ex-skateboarder band together with their children in an attempt to survive the onslaught of a sudden, unexplained attack on not just their city, but on humanity itself... moreAn extinction level event is unleashed by Artificial Intelligence in a war against humanity, an epic adventure that puts ordinary survivors in the cross-hairs of the most ruthless enemies mankind has ever known…A nurse, an archer, a few retired vets and an ex-skateboarder band together with their children in an attempt to survive the onslaught of a sudden, unexplained attack on not just their city, but on humanity itself. A society in decline, however, can sometimes fare worse than a society under assault. Caught in the killing fields and forced to fight, these remarkable people will attempt the impossible: they’ll try to escape a world now backsliding into a nightmarish landscape more reminiscent of the stone ages than the once famed coastal state of California. less