Dystopian Suspense

The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment: to stage her own death and then to observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the six other candidates react to the news that a murderer is among them.

This is a SHORT STORY set within the ongoing THE UNSEEN franchise. Potential spoilers ahead! This action-packed thriller stars Jillian Moon, recapping her initial encounter with the Unseen inside New York’s Museum of Natural History, an event that occurs during ORIGIN (The Unseen Book 1).

“A brilliant and believable dystopia, a 21st century version of 1984 or Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale.” What if life had a use-by date? 
 A New World Council runs the planet, a perfect world in their view, where everyone and everything has a time and place–even death. Blythe Harrell is a man very much on the inside of the system–but the more he sees, the more broken he understands things to be. Yet to challenge anything is to challenge it all. Even his own place at the very top. Through medical advances, most life-threatening diseases have been defeated. Yet underlying the whole...

No escape. No memories. And there’s a killer on the loose. When Jack and nine other game contestants awaken outside a mansion with no way to log out, the countdown begins. Solve a murder. Only one winner gets to leave. It’s a race against time, collecting clues scattered throughout the estate. Each riddle uncovered is a step closer to Jack understanding the truth of why he’s there, but with every passing hour, the game adapts with new threats. As alliances form, secrets unravel. Jack must use every ounce of his wits to decipher the case and learn who among the contestants he can trust...

Life is different. Change has become a constant in a world full of uncertainty. There are new monsters chasing us, both human and subhuman, and at this point, I can’t tell you which are worse. We face a new enemy, and we must do all we can to strike first, or death will find us for sure. I feel like all we do is run, and the fact is that it always seems to take us in opposite directions. Safety is now an illusion, one that strains even the strongest of relationships, especially when we are captured, and all hope is lost. The truth is a mirage and the more we learn, the tougher it is to ...

The protected escapees of the blood-farm experiments are free, secure, and set for life. Kind of. Because there’s something new to fear in this short thriller, the twisting finale of the Young Blood Trilogy.

'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.' Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death.

Kyla's memory was erased, her personality wiped blank, her memories lost forever. Or so she thought. After the shocking events of Slated and Fractured, we return to Kyla's oppressive world as she tries to make sense of her life and everything around her. Set in a disturbing near-future world, this is the conclusion to an engrossing, fast-paced trilogy that establishes Teri Terry as a master thriller writer. Book 3 in the acclaimed Slated trilogy.

Rodin’s old life is over. But before he can move on, he needs to understand his past. He needs to know how he escaped death in the bunker, and why he threw himself into the chasm. And he needs to know why others still want him dead. After a decade separated from society, Paskia’s life is finally back on course. But Correction has not worked, and she is still considered a threat. If Paskia is to survive, she must once again confront the secrets she buried all those years ago. As Rodin and Paskia seek answers, Authority seeks closure. It doesn’t like loose ends. Problems must be removed...

DEA Special Agent Peter Malloy is no stranger to the devastating impact of drugs. So when six bodies turn up with surgical ports implanted in their spines, he's sure a potent new opioid is the culprit. But when lab tests show zero evidence of any known narcotics, he fears something far more sinister. Allison Stevens thought she knew everything about her boss. But after he disappears, she's stunned to discover his secret genetic research in pain tolerance. When she becomes the target of the FBI's investigation, Allison has only one move.

Twelve-year-old Bird lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist. He knows not to ask many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird's mother.

Plague Nation is the gripping sequel to the apocalyptic thriller Plague Land, by the best-selling author of the Timeriders series, Alex Scarrow. Eighteen months have passed since the events of Plague Land. Leon and Freya have seen no sign of the virus, clinging on to the hope that two hard winters may have just killed it off. When news of a rescue ship arriving off the coast comes in, the pair are on the move once again. But all is not as safe as it seems. The virus has been busy. It has learned and evolved. And now it is reborn....

The world that once existed is long gone. What is left is a living nightmare. Given the choice between the known and unknown, I chose uncertainty, that’s how bad it has gotten. I left safety and security, for fear and certain death. But there is no going back. Not for me. Not ever. Life is no longer about anything but surviving, and I fear I may fail. My life is saved by an unknown hero, and I am thrust into a world I had no idea existed and exposed to new relationships that change everything. The possibility of love is dangled in my face – something I had never dared to hope for in the...

Wolfe is the bunker's resident pharmacist. While the inhabitants wait for the outside world to heal, she doles out ibuprofen, sanitary towels and Xanax—all under the watchful eye of the increasingly erratic and paranoid leader. But when the leader starts to ask things of Wolfe, favours she can hardly say no to, her world is thrown off its axis once again. Forming an unlikely alliance with the young Doctor Stirling, her troubled assistant Levitt and Canavan, Wolfe has to navigate the powder keg of life underground, knowing her every move is being watched.

Los Angeles County park ranger Jack Carter is about to discover that not all is as it seems in his tranquil life. Once responsible for patrolling the many public parks, in particular the popular Griffith Park with its famous observatory and zoo, Jack is about to discover that a whole new kind of animal roams his woods.

Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle's supposedly omniscient "lifechain" don't work, or, they've been hacked. Both scenarios are impossible to imagine and signal the end of Beetle's technotopia and life as we know it.

But one Alt, Chester "Chilly" Beckett, did not celebrate; his eyes have been opened to the truth. Luka's corpse is dragged away, but Chester remains determined to find out what is going on in the Laboratory on the 65th floor. There, he finds three subjects tortured in an attempt to extract a regeneration formula... and one of the subjects is, impossibly, a face he never thought he'd seen again. A bold escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy's plans to release planet-eating nano-bots into the world draw nearer.

A century after environmental and economic collapse, the people of the Coast Road have rebuilt their own sort of civilization. Enid of Haven is an investigator who, with her new partner, Teeg, is called on to mediate a dispute between households over an old building in a far-flung settlement at the edge of Coast Road territory. The investigators' decision seems straightforward - and then the body of a young woman turns up in the nearby marshland. Enid wants to find out who killed her, even as Teeg argues the murder isn't their problem.

So how can I turn the world into shambles in 61 pages? I get to the meat of the matter in a terrifying way...you heard it all before...what will happen if you wake up and the lights are off, grocery stores are already looted and you have a bottle of pills...what's your next move... You Launch! We Launch! Some countries don't like other countries so a bluff is called... It's short but thought provoking...you can read it as you try to escape America!

An act of terrorism brings the financial system to a grinding halt. Premeditated violence and waves of unrest sweep across the continent. In a time of polarization and distrust, a more sinister force is behind this attempt to bring about a new America. However, this political subterfuge is met with violent opposition. In the confusion, the coast-to-coast chaos takes on a life of its own, bringing about a sudden collapse of American civilization.