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In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collideand the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.

During 1967 and 1968, when he was subject to nonstop surveillance and harassment from both human and supernatural spooks, intrepid Fortean investigator John A. Keel made extensive field notes concerning the phenomena he was confronting in West Virginia and New York: UFOs, Men in Black, creature entities, ultraterrestrials, and odd coincidences and synchronicities. The result was a series of concise, thematically related reports, many of which were incorporated into magazine articles for Saga, Fate, and Flying Saucer Review.

For nurse Sarah Mitchell, it was just the end of another brutal shift. For survivalist Jake Cooper, it was the day he’d been preparing for his entire life. When a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse erases a century of progress, the neighbors are thrown into a world without power, without rules, without hope. While the unprepared descend into chaos, the organized and ruthless rise to build empires from the ashes. A warlord named Marcus begins to consolidate power, hunting for those with the skills to rebuild his new world—or die resisting. At the top of his list: a medic named Sarah.

When the world goes dark, Emily must rescue her son and niece from chaos, flee looters, and survive a brutal new reality. Guided by her father's prepper notes, they reach a hidden bunker, only to face betrayal, loss, and a daring rescue. In the ashes of collapse, they fight to rebuild and hold on to hope.

New? Begin with Season 1 • Ep 1: The Lights go Out. What happens when the lights go out… and never come back on? From the author of  America Falls comes season 2 of Blackout Nation, an explosive EMP survival serial that unfolds episode by episode over the space of eight weeks. Episode 1: The Farmhouse Jake is missing. Pete is injured. Sarah and the whole group are exhausted. When they stumble upon an isolated farmhouse, it seems like a miracle—a sanctuary from the chaos.

What happens when the lights go out… and never come back on? Sarah and her group have been taken. Surprised in the dead of night by a ruthless Russian Spetsnaz unit, they are bound and loaded into a steel cage, destined for a "Processing Center"—a one-way trip for anyone deemed expendable.

When a pulse kills the world’s power, wildlife biologist Lisa is trapped in the mountains with Natasha and her daughter Regan. Electronics fail. Roads turn violent. With no way home, survival means staying hidden, trusting each other, and never returning to the crowds.

When the world goes dark, Emily must rescue her son and niece from chaos, flee looters, and survive a brutal new reality. Guided by her father's prepper notes, they reach a hidden bunker, only to face betrayal, loss, and a daring rescue. In the ashes of collapse, they fight to rebuild and hold on to hope.

After what was supposed to be a simple job, Raven and Christian uncover a sinister plot against the higher authority, and the stakes are as high as the body count. The assassins are merciless, with anyone who stands in their way becoming collateral damage. Meanwhile, Raven is still struggling to make sense of her feelings for Christian following a memory wipe. During a blackout, the city erupts into chaos. With Breed on the brink of war, Keystone has only 24 hours to complete a secret mission. Raven seeks help from the most unlikely of places, but at what cost?

Sarah and her group are through the worst of it — or so they think. Holed up in an abandoned barn on the edge of enemy territory, with a Russian forward operating base glowing on the horizon, they try to rest before the most dangerous move of their lives. But the night has other plans. When a ruthless gang of post-collapse scavengers takes them by surprise, the group finds itself outgunned, at the mercy of a scarred and unpredictable leader who takes what she wants — and buries what she can't use. Survival comes down to Sarah's nerve, Marcus's timing, and a single whispered word.

When a secret government cabal attacks the president’s AI system designed to control Americans through brain-embedded implants, they think they’re stopping a dictatorship and saving humanity. Instead, they ignite something far worse. The strike fails. The implantation program surges forward. And the man behind it now possesses direct influence over human thought itself. With time running out, the cabal faces an impossible choice.

Four best friends wake up in a motel room with no memory of the last eight hours. There is blood in the sink. An unknown dead man in the bathroom. And a note on the mirror that says: You already agreed to this.

When the power grid collapses, Shelly grabs her gear and heads into a world spiraling into chaos. No phones. No rescue. Just survival. With danger around every corner and a criminal brother by her side, she must fight to stay alive or be swallowed by the darkness.

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 Columbus into darkness, legal secretary Avery Westwood is thrust into a city spiraling into chaos. With looters on the streets and lawlessness taking hold, survival becomes her only goal. Every step brings new dangers in a world without power, trust, or safety. How far will Avery go to escape the collapse of society?

Everleigh Harper does everything in her power to stop a human trafficking operation—despite being trapped in a hellish dystopian prison—in the riveting final installment of the bestselling, Goodreads Choice Award–nominated 24690 series. For the briefest moment, revenge was sweet. My...

Zero Hour continues to follow the obstacles faced by Colton Ryman, his wife, Madison, and their teenage daughter, Alex. In 36 Hours, the Ryman family and the rest of the world was thrust into the darkness of a post-apocalyptic world. A catastrophic solar flare brought with it a blast of solar matter in the form of an EMP, leaving America in darkness.

Five days after the EMP, America is collapsing. Blayne Mitchener helped stop a president who was using AI brain implants to control the population. Now federal forces are hunting him through the Virginia mountains. In Tulsa, his brother Jake is trying to convince his ex-wife to flee before the city implodes. She doesn’t trust him. She doesn’t know the truth. And she doesn’t want to run. But the silence after the blackout isn’t peace. It’s the sound of a nation tearing itself apart.

A father and his family find sanctuary in their old family homestead, hidden deep in the forest during an EMP crisis. Cody Russell leaves the city with his family and heads to his father’s old homestead, concealed deep in the woods. For Russell, the only thing worse than failing to reach sanctuary is the failure to protect his family in this dangerous post-EMP world.

The final book in the postapocalyptic Breakers series.