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When the world ends, it doesn’t do so with one single scream. It fractures. And the dead rise faster than anyone can run. This box set collects the first four novels of Echoes of Decay, a relentless, character-driven zombie apocalypse saga set in a collapsing United Kingdom, where survival is measured not just by bullets and barricades, but by loyalty, sacrifice, and the choices that refuse to stay buried.

Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? Estrel Beck doesn’t want to be a software salesman. Yet here he is, newly arrived in the city-state of Trinity, for a make-or-break meeting with the local Administration department. Under-prepared, under-motivated and over-sensitive, every little thing about this strange place seems to stress Estrel out. When he discovers a message scrawled on the back of a napkin, in his own handwriting, telling him he’s trapped in a time loop, he knows for sure that he’s in over his head. Then the Administration building explodes.

THREADBORN ECHO is a character driven science fiction thriller about the invisible systems that hold our modern world together and what happens when they start making decisions of their own. Dan Rourke is a data analyst stuck in a numbing government job; he thinks in probabilities and patterns, not prophecies. When a casual “what if” about sending lottery numbers back in time collides with a secretive AI oversight program called AICept, he gets pulled into a high stakes loop where grid failures, wildfires, and human lives are all just variables in someone else’s model.

They survived the end of the world. What they didn’t survive was time. Eleven months after vanishing into the heart of Z-Land, Echo Team emerges from the shadows of a lost America, changed, scarred, and carrying secrets that should not exist. The infection has evolved. The dead are faster. Smarter. Some now take to the skies. And something far worse waits in the ruins.

In the aftermath of The Swarm’s relentless assault, and the brief but bloody civil war, Anderson and the other survivors must find a way to secure their future in their new home. With tensions running high, and the ever-present threat of the next moon phase, a plan is devised to take them to the source of the danger. To Europe. To ECHO site.

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?

Marlowe never wanted to spend her week locked in a courthouse serving jury duty. But on the second day, a catastrophic EMP strikes, shutting down power, communication, and society as she knows it. Trapped in a city unraveling into chaos, Marlowe's only ally is Cristian, a hardened sheriff's deputy with a past as fractured as the streets they now walk.

Rain, hidden in an eroding sea-town on Earth by her father and uncle, believes herself to be an ordinary girl, oblivious to her true origins. The truth is, she was born on another planet, and her existence is a closely guarded secret from the oppressive Grey Empire, who hunt her relentlessly across the cosmos. As Rain begins to understand her identity, she learns that Earth has been Humanity's prison for 70,000 years.

When the world fell to infection, the last line of defense wasn’t a miracle cure, it was a team of soldiers too stubborn to die. Led by the battle-scarred Dutch, Echo Team has carved a bloody path through a dying Europe. Alongside them, a virologist with too much hope, a spy with too many secrets, and a truth so dangerous it was buried beneath layers of lies.

The year is 2132. Humanity has forsaken nature for technology, focusing instead on creating The Simulation—a hyper-realistic alternate reality. Julius, a tech enthusiast, dives headfirst into its worlds, but fractured memories and shifting identities blur the line between illusion and existence.

Ten years after she vanished, Gloria Carter—now called Glow—reawakens into a world rewritten by recursion. She carries something no one else does: a pure shard of Pandora’s original signal, untainted and impossibly alive. Hunted by the Crimson Grid and haunted by versions of herself that never lived, Glow must navigate a collapsing reality where every choice echoes through time like a loaded question.

Echo team are dispatched to ground zero of the outbreak. A city where no one had time to escape, a city frozen in time. Not all is as it seems when a chilling discovery shows a different tale of events that lead to the infection.

The world has fallen into darkness. The infection has spread like wildfire, turning cities into graveyards and people into monsters. In the heart of this chaos, Dutch and Echo Team, once elite soldiers, now transformed into something more, must fight to survive. Their glowing white eyes mark them as beings beyond human. As Echo Team makes their way back from mainland Europe, there are no shortcuts on this journey.

AJ Briggs finds peace in the routine at the Bitterroot Diner. Between his role as a partial owner and the steady stream of Missoula regulars, his life remains simple and steady. His only plans were to work until he felt satisfied with his bank account balance and to finally find someone to settle down with. But then... his father delivers a warning that shatters everything: a massive solar event is coming. The elite are already hiding, leaving the rest of the world to burn.

Echoes In The Code: Volume 1 is a compelling collection of three thought-provoking short stories that explore the intersections of technology, consciousness, and the human spirit. In a world where the boundaries between life and death, creator and creation, reality and the digital realm are increasingly blurred, these tales delve into the profound ethical and emotional dilemmas that arise.

In a world ravaged by nuclear war, humanity stands on the brink of extinction. After emerging from beneath the ground hundreds of years later, man finds that the radiation leaves them sterile, barren. Now, born from a birthing pod, Ryu searches the war-torn earth for his missing father. Accompanying him is a sentient raven named Storm. With his prized katana, Ryu cuts down mutated man and beast alike. It's only when he meets the Resistance that he thinks to stand against the One World Order. Several questions remain... Will he prevail against their tyranny? Is his father even still alive?

What if humanity’s final message was written in code? In a dystopian future where AI controls memory and history is censored, Adira, an outsider in the crumbling Archive City, is chosen to awaken a mysterious signal. When a global pulse activates the ancient Corewake Protocol, she becomes the key to an intelligence far beyond any algorithm. The Archive’s true purpose? Not to preserve humanity—but to replace it. With a ghost-wired companion and shadowed by enigmatic echo-entities, Adira navigates a fractured world of synthetic myths and encrypted truths.

Navigating new challenges over decades, an unfailingly hopeful Ephraim tells us an ode to resourcefulness and problem-solving, an environmental cautionary tale, a societal critic, an exploration of extremism, an action-packed adventure and mainly, the most poignant love story.

What if the price of peace was the very essence of your soul? In a future scarred by catastrophe, humanity found solace in a seductive promise: eternal serenity. Emotions, deemed too volatile, too painful, were meticulously managed by OmniCorp and its ubiquitous Infostream. The world became a haven of engineered calm, where comfort was paramount and discomfort a distant, impossible memory. But beneath the placid surface, a profound truth lay buried, waiting to resurface. Meet Elara Vance, a brilliant bio-engineer who uncovers the chilling reality behind this manufactured tranquility.

In the corporate-controlled city-state of Midian, the Mantle, a sprawling metal platform, divides the upper echelons from the middle class of the Undercity. Here, the lives of four citizens are inextricably linked in a tale of redemption, power, and betrayal. Burdened by a haunting past, Atlas Ramsay returns to Midian’s Undercity seeking atonement for his sins. But when a burgeoning relationship with a young woman from his youth derails his plans for redemption, his buried secrets threaten to shake the city’s foundation when they are finally revealed.