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A massive EMP plunges Los Angeles into chaos. Trapped in a penthouse, Cassy must use her military training to protect her sister and survive fires, looters, and a city collapsing into darkness.

When an EMP plunges Atlanta into chaos, Ethan must protect his injured mother, his determined sister, and a fearless EMT. With no power, no phones, and no escape by car, survival means walking through a collapsing city where violence, desperation, and betrayal wait around every corner.

When the power dies without warning, Mel knows it isn’t just a storm. Cars stall. Phones go silent. The town goes dark. With her daughter at her side and panic spreading fast, she must turn her quiet homestead into a fortress before the world realizes it’s already fallen.

In an instant, the world changed. Without power, technology, or the rule of law, can a young man guide his companions to loved ones and safety? Alex Kade is ready for some R&R. Hardworking but carrying his share of regrets, the UCLA film school student tries to keep the peace among his friends during a winter vacation to the rugged Colorado Rockies. But when a startling flash lights up the sky over their remote cabin, the twenty-two-year-old is horrified to realize the country is under attack —and gets his group walking toward town.

Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds. This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds.

Die Reise geht weiter für Ben, seinen Sohn Joel, Joels Klassenkameradin Allie und ihren Hund Gunner, während sie mit den harten Realitäten dieser gefährlichen neuen Welt kämpfen. Sie bahnen sich ihren Weg vorbei an zahllosen Hindernissen, sowohl natürlichen als auch von Menschenhand geschaffenen, und kommen langsam quer durchs Land voran, ohne je zu wissen, wo sie schlafen werden oder welche Herausforderungen vor ihnen liegen. Aber der Drang, sich mit der Familie wiederzuvereinigen, treibt sie in Richtung Ostküste. Rückschläge warten an jeder Ecke.

Two millennia after a global catastrophe reshaped Ettia, humanity is slowly clawing its way back from the ashes. And they are not alone. In a new world with bestial gods, magical creatures, mystical plants, ancient relics, and humans blessed with godblood, Echoes of Destruction follows a former slave in search of redemption, an ex-warrior hellbent on revenge, and an ancient being uncertain of his true purpose in this new world. An old terror with a new face threatens a new apocalypse. Will this be the last era of humanity, or will these few forge a path forward that inevitably saves it?

If you make a deal with the Devil, don’t forget to read the fine print. Three operatives find themselves on the run after a corporate sabotage job goes awry. Now, their predatory employer, a heavyweight weapons-tech firm, wants its elite A-team dead at all costs. Jon is a smooth-talking charmer. Friedrich is a hacker prodigy. And Guion is the ice-cold tactician who keeps them all in line. Backs against the wall, the men strike separate infernal pacts to stay alive.

Before the global EMP shattered the grid and sent civilization spiraling into ruin, a single bullet could end a life. Now, it guarantees a slow, agonizing death. Rob is bleeding out in a world without doctors, medicine—or mercy. And time is running out. Claire has one mission: find help—fast. But in a lawless wasteland crawling with killers, slavers, and scavengers, every step is a gamble. Worse still, the Carringtons are hunting them, and they won’t stop until Rob’s body is in the dirt.

'Prescient, dark, and ultimately hopeful' PIERCE BROWN 'Excellent' PETER F. HAMILTON 'A menacing experience' FONDA LEE 'Science fiction at its finest' SUNYI DEAN In this brand-new blistering science fiction epic, Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan presents a thrilling tale of survival...

I was a sugarbaby, I admit. I am not proud of it, though others seem to sensationalize the lifestyle. They see glitz and glamor, never food or a place to sleep. Film and literature have only shown one side of a sugarbaby’s life. They villainize us and make us out to be either sluts or golddiggers or airheads. And well, they’re right. I am no saint. I am a whore — a selfish, greedy, ageist whore who is worth nothing except in bed. Life was no fairytale as a sugarbaby. But it was one grotesque, unlawful act after another. Yet somehow, that life pales in comparison to my life as a Minor.

In einer Stadt, in der die Arena alles ist: Regierung, Wirtschaft, Kontrolle und Show, kämpft Reva ums Überleben. Ihr Leid ist Währung, ihre Angst Unterhaltung. Über das Feel-Link-System spüren Millionen Zuschauer jeden Schlag, jeden Stich, jedes Beben ihres Herzens live. Je stärker sie leidet, desto höher steigt die Quote. Aber Reva will keine Heldin sein. Sie will nur genug verdienen, um ihre Familie zu schützen.

Bear stares at the pool of blood, chest so tight he can barely breathe. They’d told him piking lumpers would be no big thing, that serving his sentence would be like hashmarks on a wall. Now that he’s standing over the woman’s crumpled body, he can’t stop seeing the person beneath the Lumps, and the weight just about crushes him. Killing lumpers wears on all the inmates, each guy trying to cope with the harsh reality of serving time in their own way. Decker shatters into a million pieces just looking at the sorry things but manages to find a way back after a good cry.

THE EARLIEST LIE IS THE DEADLIEST WEAPON. For five millennia, the earth has carried the agonizing acoustic memory of humanity’s first murder. Now, a fanatic has found the instrument to broadcast it. Julian Vane and his ruthless Order of Silence have unearthed a prehistoric weapon in the deepest trenches of the Jordan Rift. Their terrifying goal: to broadcast the "Great Silence," an ancient, inescapable frequency of the uncorrupted Ur-language that will permanently strip humanity of free will, forcing a tyrannical, lobotomized peace upon the globe.

Tedd ist zurück. Die Mafia hat ihm ein Angebot gemacht, das er nicht ablehnen konnte. Offenbar hat selbst ein fluchender, ausdrucksloser Mülldroid etwas zu verlieren. Percival hat sie gefunden – und wenn Tedd nicht tut, was die Mafia verlangt, ist sie tot.

大規模停電、強毒性ウィルスの蔓延、飛行機墜落事故などが立て続けに発生し、世界は急速に混乱に陥った。これらすべての原因は謎の人工知能『天軸』の暴走と考えられた。五十九彦、三瑚嬢、蝶八隗の選ばれし３人は、人工知能の開発者が残したという巨大な樹の絵画『楽園』を手掛かりに、暴走する『天軸』の所在を探る。

In a future divided by a cure that could save —or control —humanity, one political campaign threatens to rewrite the fate of the world.. What if they could erase who you are —and call it a cure? In the near-future United States, backed by a powerful institution and a presidential candidate, Project Z offers a so-called cure —and the country is splitting at the seams.

Friday night in Shoreditch turns to police tape and panic in minutes. An attacker in a nightclub doesn’t bruise or beg —he bites. Sergeant Daniel Kerr, MO19 armed response, puts one round to the head and watches his partner rise again with blood in his eyes. The rules change on the floor of a bar.

Long after the world has died, one man goes on a journey to save a single soul and ends up changing the lives of countless others. For Jack Avery, living among the ruins of the outer zone and scavenging to survive is not the worst of nightmares.

When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels. With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice.