Adventure Survival Thriller

Locked deep in the castle's dungeon, Yelena knows she’ll never be free again. The laws in Ixia are strict, and murderers must be executed, no matter the reason. But just as she’s resigned to her fate, she’s offered an extraordinary reprieve – to be the food taster for the Commander of Ixia. As the food taster, Yelena will eat the best meals, have a room in the castle, and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander.

In every city, girls are trafficked in brothels where the red haze of the neon lights never shut off. Red in the morning. Red at night. Red for the sailor's delight. But the red haze isn't just a district where girls are purchased by immoral men. Like the red of murderous bloodshed or the scales of demons, the red haze is a symbol of something more sinister. Enter Sam Eden and her boyfriend, Mike Carpenter, naive 20-year-olds who have traveled to the volatile country of Burma for a backpacking adventure but find themselves completely ill-prepared for the world they've entered.

Order is anarchy After the mass collapse of the global economy, humanity focused on raw survival. Now, the surviving remnant triumph and rebuild the world. This third book of the acclaimed trilogy follows the characters you love: Dr.D., the creator of the bacterium behind the destruction; Jessica, damaged but brilliant; Bilqis, priestess of matriarchal New Islam in North Africa; Meala, the youthful warrior spreading the new religion; Li, Chinese bureaucrat finding love amidst the global cataclysm; and other memorable figures. Rapid-fire page-turning action takes you along on each of their ...

LAND OF THE FREE Escape… a new beginning. That’s what Demi Fedora yearns for. And so, she leaves everything and everyone she knows to move to her deceased grandfather’s derelict cabin in the wilds of Alaska, the one he left her in his will. Meeting Whittaker Hart isn’t in her plans. Though the ruggedly handsome gold prospector does everything to win her over, she keeps her distance until her need to survive a life totally foreign to her nature overcomes her desire to do everything herself. After rescuing a young drunk and taking on the tough life of a greenhorn, she realizes one ...

It happened within a week. Survival was just the start of it. It has a plan.... Leon is stuck in England. Grace is on her way to New Zealand and Freya to the 'New United States' in Cuba. The virus has assimilated all of humanity except for these three communities, and now it is prepared to talk with them. How they each choose to respond to the virus will ultimately decide their fate in Plague World, the apocalyptic finale to the Remade trilogy from best-selling author of the TimeRiders series, Alex Scarrow.

Alexandra LaDuca is smart, tough, and cool under fire. But when she travels to Cairo to investigate a former mentor who was believed to be dead, Alex is caught in a bizarre game of double cross, and her life is more perilously on the line than ever.

A young couple from Paris sets out on the adventure of a lifetime: a journey by sailboat around the tip of Cape Horn. But when they stop on a deserted island to explore the barren landscape, the unthinkable happens and they find themselves stranded. Unprepared to survive in the harsh conditions on the island, their only supplies from an abandoned research station, the two must depend on each other as they never have in their lives to hold on until rescue comes, if it ever arrives at all.

Ralph and Robyn live at Crocodile Lodge, their family ranch in South Africa, where they help with the animals, aid the conservation effort and learn the land. That is, until a mysterious predator starts terrorising the reserve. On the trail for answers, the siblings discover the fearsome culprit: the largest crocodile they've ever seen, uncannily similar to the long-extinct Sarcosuchus Ralph recognises from his favourite game, Predasaur. And when a nearby village is ravaged by a deadly disease, the stakes are higher than ever.

Seven teenagers who suffer from debilitating insomnia agree to take part in an experimental new procedure to cure it because they think it can't get any worse. But they couldn't be more wrong. When the lab equipment malfunctions, the patients are plunged into a terrifying dream world where their worst nightmares have come to life - and they have no memory of how they got there.

Hollie has spent her whole life on the quiet south coast. It’s not been without its challenges, but then whose life is? So, when Hollie and her best friend, Parker, start a research project on the sea-wall defences, they don’t expect to find mistakes. Soon Hollie’s mum is at the very epi-centre of the storm and her reputation called into question. And in no time at all, it becomes clear that much more than her good name is at stake – their very lives are in danger...

After faking her own death to escape her term as an indentured assassin for Valor Savings Bank, Patsy is on the run with her boyfriend, Wyatt. All she wants to do is go home, but that's never going to happen - not as long as Valor's out to get her and the people she loves. Left with no good choices, Patsy's only option is to meet with a mysterious group that calls itself the Citizens for Freedom.

Mila has been running for her life for so long. But that was before she betrayed Hunter, the boy she'll always love, and before she discovered she was an incredible danger to anyone who dares to get close to her. Now she's gone into hiding with friend and tech expert Lucas. But when Mila discovers that her enemy, General Holland, is an even bigger threat to humanity than she is, she must make a choice: either push aside her fears and fight him with everything she's got...or turn her back on the world forever.

When society begins to unravel, there's no putting it back together. Jim and the others have made it to the lake house. They have some supplies, and they're still alive. But that doesn't mean they're safe. Rationing the food is necessary, and the meager portions are beginning to take their toll. Imagining hunger and fatigue is one thing, but living it is another. Can they survive like this long term? What happens now that the hoards are fleeing the cities, looking for shelter?

Mila was living with her mother in a small Minnesota town when she discovered she was also living a lie. She was never meant to learn the truth about her identity. She was never supposed to remember the past - that she was built in a computer-science lab and programmed to do things real people would never do. Now she has no choice but to run - from the dangerous operatives who want her terminated because she knows too much, and from a mysterious group that wants to capture her alive and unlock her advanced technology.

You don't know who you are. But they do. You wake up on the subway tracks in Los Angeles with no memory of who you are. A backpack is at your feet. Inside is a fresh set of clothes, $1,000 in cash, a phone number, and the instructions "Do not call the police." As you try to figure out your identity, the questions swirl. What is your name? How did you get here? What is the meaning of the tattoo on your wrist of a blackbird and the code FNV02198? There is only one thing you know for sure: People are trying to kill you.

The 64 members of Fire Lake's sophomore class have managed to survive the first two phases of the Program - and each other. Now, they alone have emerged into the dawn of a new era on Earth, into a Fire Lake valley that's full of otherworldly dangers and challenges. Although staying alive in this broken world should force Min, Noah, Tack, and the others to form new alliances, old feuds die hard, and the brutality of the earlier Program phases cannot be forgotten.

A thought-provoking story about death, divine justice, and what it truly means to get a second chance at redemption. Ryley's father is a murderer... He admires his father. As an eighteen-year-old man, Ryley's time in the boys' youth shelter is over. The story begins the night he is kicked out. He discovers a piece of paper in his pocket, which is his father’s Penn Brook Penitentiary profile. In an unfamiliar city with nothing to his name and nowhere to go, Ryley must find his father for help. Along the way, he’ll befriend a furry companion named Kaia, a girl named Addison Gray, a former...

When Jo steps onto planet Tau Ceti e for the first time, she’s ready to put the past behind her and begin again. After all, as a pioneer, she has the job of helping build a new home away from Earth. But underneath the idyllic surface of their new home, there’s something very wrong. And when Jo accidentally uncovers a devastating secret that could destroy everything they’ve worked for, suddenly the future doesn’t seem so bright. With the fate of the pioneers in her hands, Jo must decide how far she’s willing to go to expose the truth - before the truth destroys them all.

Found guilty of possessing magical powers and sentenced to death in Ixia, Yelena Zaltana must flee to the southern lands and seek sanctuary with her family. A family she hasn’t seen in fourteen years and who could be her only hope of survival. But Sitia is unfamiliar, and she’s treated with suspicion and even hatred by the people she thought she could trust – including her own brother.

When six-year-old Laurel Logan was abducted, the only witness was her younger sister, Faith. Since then, Faith's childhood has revolved around her sister's disappearance - from her parents' broken marriage and the constant media attention, to dealing with so-called friends who only ever want to talk about her missing sister. Now, 13 years later, a young woman is found in the front yard of the Logans' old house, disoriented and clutching the teddy bear Laurel was last seen with. Can her sister finally be back?