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Hundreds of years after the end of the world, the Appalachian community of Iron Hollow finds itself beset by demons. Such horrors are common these days in the outlands, where most folks die young—if they don’t turn into monsters first. When a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest unearthly beast to haunt their woods, the town’s new oral historian, Shrike, has more reason than most to be concerned. Because that demon was her wife. And while Shrike is certain that May still recognizes her—that May is still herself, somewhere beneath it all—she can’t prove it.

Ivar The Destroyer is dead. Killed by my hands. Now, I hold the throne, and the Berserkers look to me for leadership. But loyalty runs deep-can I really trust the men who followed Ivar's ruthless orders? So much blood has been spilled to end this fight before it ever began, but bigger challenges loom.

An allegorical tale set in a nearby dystopian future. John Gershon is mid-rank in his American military career. He receives an unusual assignment to embed with a secretive, indefatigable religious military order in Lebanon known as the Knights of Lebanon, or simply ‘the Order’. The world is different in the 2080s. An insatiable supranational government known as Babylon is homogenizing ideals and cultures throughout the West and is encroaching on the rest of the world. Lebanon was spared from Babylon's tentacles recently thanks to the Order.

When the Watchtower is attacked, events begin to spiral out of control, and Nero discovers the secret Nyx has been hiding from her master. Now he must choose between the life he knows alone in the wastes, or helping the fascinating but vulnerable Nyx, and changing his life forever. What would you do?

For some, destiny is a warm embrace, but for others it is a stranglehold. In the vast, sprawling continent of Pan’gea, a clandestine organization is rising to power. It is called the Remnant Order, a group dedicated to preserving order in a chaotic world. At the heart of the Remnant are a husband and wife, Romulus and Diánna. Romulus is one of the Order's most steadfast champions, a paragon of fairness and stability.

In a world ravaged by dust storms and poisonous rains, Abel has survived feral dogs, raiders, and drug addiction... but he's done with just surviving. Now, he wants to start living. When Abel stumbles across a boy suffering from the same addiction that almost killed him, he takes the kid under his wing and offers him a new life... a life free from drugs. But when a brutal drug gang comes after the kid, Abel must risk everything to keep him safe and end The Family's reign of terror.

Estingai barely pulled herself from the rubble of the Deathknight’s attack, but she has no time for grief. She must finish what she and her husband had started and unite the disparate factions of the resistance and lead them off their dying world. When the other factions resist her efforts, Estingai must decide how far she is willing to go, who, if anyone, she can trust to help her, and if she can take up the mantle of the Last Knight and lead them to salvation.

Everything has changed. An apex being created another with a perceived higher purpose and sense of superiority, and now the fight for survival begins. This first book sets up the internal power struggle in the military alliance, the conflicting nature of the soulless and the unfamiliars, and sees the birth of the original and most powerful night of Sol.

When Sawyer "Deck" Declan, more machine than man, is offered an opportunity to go after the terrorist who took his former life away, he heads into the wastelands surrounding the domed city of Nuevo Buenos Aires, hunting a sadistic army of cultists bent on equality or death, all under the direction of their mysterious Messiah and Declan's nemesis, Carlo Varga.

Foundations is the story of a group of like-minded police officers, SWAT officers, armed citizens, and military veterans who happen to be training together when the lights go out. Like most of you would, they quickly know what's up. Unlike most people, the Black Knight Squadron has the training and resources to do something about it on a large scale.

In her last moments, Queen Latrix revealed that Nyx’s mother, Dani, was alive, and held captive by the Night Lord, the Whisperer. Nyx has one mission now, to hunt the Whisperer down and save her mother, and Nero will do whatever it takes to help her.

Alexander's army seems unstoppable. Phalathlan and Oster have fallen and they've turned their attention towards Morton where the surviving forces seem powerless to stop them. Refusing to run any more, Ben and Carl devise a plan that is both brilliant and insane. Hoping that one man can help them, they set off on an ocean voyage that will take Ben back to where he started. Their future will hinge on the answer to one question. Is the enemy of your enemy your friend, or your enemy?

They were too late. Despite everything that they'd sacrificed, everyone that they'd lost, they were still too late to stop the army from the north. Now, outnumbered and out gunned, the survivors from the Road Trains fight back against the force that has occupied their homeland, but Alexander seems to be one step ahead of them at every turn. If it's always darkest just before the dawn, what happens if the sun never rises?

Nyx is free from her former life of slavery to Rex. Roaming through the wasteland of the apocalypse, Nero and Nyx are enjoying their freedom, and kicking zombie ass while doing it. When a chance encounter with Cryptus leads to memories of her childhood resurfacing, Nyx knows she must find out the truth. Who is she? Where is she from? Where are her parents? But she can’t do this alone. Her partner, protector, and lover, Nero goes with her on her mission. Sadistic Daemons, psychotic mutants, and a tyrannical leader with a harem of slave girls? It’s all in a day's work.