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In a small North Carolina town, one man struggles to save his family after America loses a war that will send it back to the Dark Ages. This is the story of a war scenario that could become all too terrifyingly real.

John Matherson turns his attention to restoring the social order that existed prior to the EMP attack that plunged the United States into darkness. But when news breaks that members of the government knew an attack was coming, the government might get what it fears most: revolution.

In less than a day, everything they've ever known vanished and the world fell into chaos. Uncertain where to turn and who to trust in this strange new world, they must band together in an attempt to survive. However, they slowly begin to realize it's not only the crumbling earth and treacherous people around them that are a threat, but also something unseen and even more lethal.

Ryder doesn't know if she can kill Afana and liberate the bunker. One thing she does know is that the Merry Gang will do the impossible to free the hostage- or die trying. Unfortunately for the Gang, there is a fate worse than death: the Madness. Will Ryder and the Merry Gang survive the Madness? Will Afana finally meet justice? Will the captives find freedom?

Ryder had gone from the impossible to the highly improbable with Massimo and Leandro. But can she do better? While the vegetarian vampire, werewolf, and bearded mountain man are willing to support her, Ryder needs an army to attack Afana if she wants to do better than throw away the lives of herself and her new friends. Will Massimo and Leandro be able to help her out one more time? Justice will be served one way or another. But will Ryder be alive to see it happen?

Two-hundred years ago the earth was destroyed by the World's Worst Day Ever. Keeping his head down for the last few centuries, a mutated vampire has taken advantage of the new post-apocalyptic normal. Now, Ryder is provided an opportunity to escape his tyrannical rule...but she won't stand for simply disappearing, it's time for justice. Taking one mutated vampire down should be no problem, right? Wrong! Throw in a newly developed herd of zombies, and Ryder is facing a full recipe for disaster. Get ready to enjoy the ride!

One thousand years after a cataclysmic event leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, the descendants of the chosen survivors take refuge in thirteen contingency shelters buried deep underground, at the bottom of the ocean, and in the far reaches of outer space. In the underwater 13th Continuum, sixteen-year-old Myra Jackson has heard rumors and whisperings all her life of a magical place called "The Surface" where people could breathe fresh air, feel the warmth of something called sunlight on their skin, and see things known as stars and trees and mountains.

At the end of the twenty-first century, the world has changed dramatically, but life continues one thousand feet below the ocean's surface. In Great Britain, sea creatures swim among the ruins of Big Ben and the Tower of London, and citizens waver between fear and hope: fear of what lurks in the abyss and hope that humanity will soon discover a way to reclaim the planet. Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old Leyla McQueen has her own problems to deal with.

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes an astonishing tapestry of humanity that Harlan Coben calls "a suspenseful, twisty, satisfying, surprising, thought-provoking epic." Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone.

Finnegan is a positive, susceptible to the zombie virus. He must endure the last two years of the incubation period in a special facility, but when the military caravan transporting him there is attacked, Finn finds himself alone in a dangerous land amid hordes of zombies.