Apocalyptic Survival Fiction

A nuclear bomb has detonated in Atlanta, and an EMP has wiped out the U.S. power grid. The societal fabric of the country is falling apart, and an invading force is making their presence known. With time and resources running out, the separated Burrows family is desperate to find each other. Bug Out, Book 2 in the Worst Case Scenario series, follows Ian, Leah and Grace Burrows as they try to individually cope with the new world reality controlled by an invading force and the physical challenge of simple survival. Can they find a way back to each other? And if they do, should they stay, or ...

The world ended. She rose. When the outbreak turns the White House into a bloodbath, 25-year-old Speaker of the House Rowan Monroe becomes the last surviving member of the American government—and the first pregnant woman to declare war on the end of the world. Armed with a radio signal, a rifle, and a rage only betrayal can birth, Rowan doesn't just survive—she builds. Beside her stand four men: a brooding soldier with a missing hand, a worshipful NSA analyst with dangerous secrets, a fallen lover turned warlord, and a wounded doctor who never expected to become a father. Together, ...

Rats invade our sewers. Our homes. And they won't stop there. Ethan Vine wants his country back. His freedom. For that, he’s ready to give his life. So what’s stopping him? England drowns under a plague of large killer rats. The towns and cities are death zones. Scattered pockets of human survivors battle against an increasingly vicious vermin. In the villages, the valiant fight on preserving a fragile hope. Life is short and hard; death swift and bloody. And now it’s about to get worse. A mysterious new breed of rat has emerged. A demon mutant. For Ethan and the others, the only hope...

In the silent depths of Diablo Lake, where shadows dance upon the water's edge, secrets linger like whispers in the night. Five years have passed since the world was torn asunder, yet the scars of our past haunt us still, etched into the very fabric of our souls. I watch from the shadows as life unfolds around me, a silent guardian amidst the chaos. Clarisse tends to the wounded with a quiet determination, her eyes betraying the weight of our shared burden.

Robin dreamed of attending Yale and using her brain. Kory lived on the streets of Seattle and relied on his brawn. Without the asteroid, they never would have met. For three years, Robin and her grandfather have been hiding, trusting no one. When a biker gang moves into town, Robin can no longer scrounge or tend her garden. Because her grandfather is dying, he urges her to join her extended family—800 miles away in a bunker city in South Dakota, but she doesn't want to leave.

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius". Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.

My name is Frank Moon, and I’m in way over my head. We’ve settled in Sanctuary, a neighborhood on the edge of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Having endured gut-wrenching emotional trials and hordes of inhuman enemies, I’ve rapidly become the leader of a small, yet ever-growing, community of survivors. With supplies thinning, I reluctantly agree to return to town for the first time in weeks. My wife and I run into more than just a multitude of murderous monsters. We’re forced into a war between two well-armed human factions. One of the parties is hellbent on claiming Gatlinburg for ...

When an egotistical billionaire’s plan to solve climate change goes horribly wrong, it unleashes a catastrophe with devastating consequences. Widowed boat tour operator, Kelly Walker, is determined to escape from Florida with her family, before the flood waters rise and life as she knows it disappears. But when disaster strikes her son, Jackson, is missing. She’ll do anything to find him. But as brutal winds and power failures accompany the floodwaters, she fears she may already be too late.

A man and his brother escape to a rural retreat when disaster strikes America.

In a frozen wasteland where survival hangs by a thread, Simon Frost and his band of hardened warriors embark on a daring mission. With their lives on the line, they scour the treacherous landscape in search of vital resources to keep their camp alive. But when they encounter a ruthless adversary, they find themselves outnumbered and outmatched as a relentless battle erupts. Bullets tear through the air, and the stench of blood saturates the earth as they fight tooth and nail, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake.

I thought dying in prison was my only option… …then I was given a choice. I can either board an alien spaceship with 400 fellow criminals or rot in prison on a freezing Earth. The spacecraft's captain, a handsome alien who looks remarkably human, has been visiting me in my dreams for over a year. He has given me the companionship I need during my time locked up in solitary confinement, and the way he holds me in my mind makes me forget the Earth is on the brink of extinction. But was that nothing but my imagination? The alien in question doesn’t seem to know anything about the hours ...

In Doomsday: Apocalypse, book one of the Doomsday series, it was New Year's Eve. As the ball dropped in Times Square, Americans were preparing for a new year and a bright future. Instead, they found themselves fighting for their lives as the fuse had been lit that sent the country into chaos. With political rancor at an all-time high, the war of words escalated, and a political war erupted. Americans were caught in the crosshairs of societal unrest and a shadowy group stoking the fires of discontent burning in America.

When Andrew stumbles upon Jamie’s house, he’s injured, starved, and has nothing left to lose. A deadly pathogen has killed off most of the world’s population, including everyone both boys have ever loved. And if this new world has taught them anything, it’s to be scared of what other desperate people will do . . . so why does it seem so easy for them to trust each other? After danger breaches their shelter, they flee south in search of civilization. But something isn’t adding up about Andrew’s story, and it could cost them everything.

Neal Grant watched silently as the cemetery workers buried his family. It was just him now, alone, something he’d never been before. First, his parents and siblings had passed and then his wife and three wonderful children. All of them were gone forever now - all dead at the same time because of a drunk driver and a foggy road. Little did Neal know that this was only the beginning of things to come. Soon he would realize that he had not only lost his family, but must also deal with a failing economy and a nuclear war.

This is a 2020 must read! “What’s up?” Simon asked him cautiously, following his gaze again. “I’m not…sure…” as he said it, Simon felt it too. Something about the men that he couldn’t place that hadn’t at first seemed obvious, but now seemed unmissable. Their pace. It was surprisingly fast for backpackers, even if they were in a hurry to get to the train station – which was in the opposite direction. The atmosphere abruptly shifted and the air around them grew cooler. In less than a second, the casual daytime ‘people-watching’ vibe vanished and was replaced by a ...

This post-apocalyptic / science fiction romance series contains the three main novels in the Earth's Only Hope series. Filled with interstellar adventure, forbidden romance, and high-stakes survival, the Earth's Only Hope series will keep you on the edge of your seat. Can a band of prisioners become the saviors of humanity? And will love flourish in the face of extinction? Dive into this post-apocalyptic space opera today and discover why Earth's only hope may lie in the most unexpected hands. The Earth is freezing... ...and its salvation is left to a group of criminals, like me. From ...

It’s been eighteen years since the outbreak of “Infected” and the events from We’re Alive: A Story of Survival. Once an embattled “Colony” of survivors, the thriving stronghold of Westport celebrates the graduation of its latest class of Guardians, including Nicholas Tink. The son of the late great Saul Tink, Nick yearns to step beyond his father’s shadow and become a hero in his own right, a destroyer of the Infected.

New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20s. When Deuce turns 15, she takes on her role as a Huntress, and is paired with Fade, a teenage Hunter who lived Topside as a young boy. When she and Fade discover that the neighboring enclave has been decimated by the tunnel monsters—or Freaks—who seem to be growing more organized, the elders refuse to listen to warnings.

Like most college students, all Callie Norton has worried about for weeks was passing this semester’s finals. After a night out celebrating, she and her friends wake up, sick with way more than the hangover of the century. All too soon, Callie realizes that this is not just a common cold she’s suffering from—and when she wakes up from a coma in a quarantine tent as the sole survivor, lack of food and water aren’t her only problems.

While a cyber-attack crippled half the nation’s power grid, enemies of the United States launched an super EMP over the midwest sending the nation back to the stone age. For Raine Caldwell and her neighbors, it couldn't have come at a worse time. Deep into the coldest midwest winter on record, the nation is plunged into frigid darkness. Seeking Safety is a gripping tale of an ordinary group of people as they fight to survive after an EMP plunges the nation into frigid darkness. Would you have what it takes to survive the cold, dark, dangerous streets and make it to safety?