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Jason Taverner has a glittering TV career, millions of fans, great wealth and something close to eternal youth. He is one of a handful of brilliant, beautiful people, the product of top-secret government experiments forty years earlier. But suddenly, all records of him vanish. He becomes a man with no identity, in a police state where everyone us closely monitored. Can he ever be rich and famous again? Or was that life just an illusion?

In a world scattered with the remnants of once-powerful devices, a solitary observer moves among others who search, repeat, and gather without clear purpose. The signals persist. The systems remain. But language begins to falter, memory thins, and meaning becomes difficult to sustain.

The decision to splinter backfires. When Lauren and the others leave the safety of the valley in search of supplies and aid, they’re trapped, captured, and tortured. Escape seems impossible…if they’re to survive, it will be only be by rescue, and not without blood on their hands and tears in their eyes. Could you watch one of your own be beaten? The group’s captors are coldblooded and ruthless, and they senselessly brutalize without pity. Despite Lauren’s bravery in the face of insuperable odds, she finds herself heartbroken. Can she still find the will to keep fighting?

An indentured human woman. An Imperial man on a mission. A fake marriage born in the stars. When my master died, I believed I’d be set free. Instead, I’m sent to a temple where I’m forced to continue doing the one thing I know—pleasing alien males. Until Gael the Returner arrives. Half-human and half-Imperial, he travels the galaxy, rescuing humans.

Alan Russell thought about his family night and day. They didn’t just mean the world to him, they were his world. As a devoted husband and father, his sole purpose was to love, support, and protect them. Yet Alan had gone a step further, doing everything in his power to ensure his family’s survival in what he believed would become a perilous and uncertain future. On the day civilization changed forever, he found his efforts hadn’t been enough.

Lauren Russell often wondered why her father had been so adamant about teaching her skills that most other fathers wouldn't even consider teaching their daughters. Ever since she was little, she had been taught how to live and survive outdoors, and how to use firearms to protect herself and those around her. Some of the training had been a bit extreme. Or had it been? Many of her questions were answered the day the world as she knew it ended.

After the Sickness has killed off her parents and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging and learning the contours of this familiar land made new. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: feral and ready to be taught all that Monster knows.

It was never just one bad day. It was a few bad days—each worse than the last. Now I'm home, and somehow, it's worse here. My wife is baking cookies. The solar power's on. The kids are smiling like nothing's wrong. But the neighbors are dead. The girl I rescued isn't who I thought she was. And someone—somewhere—is coming for her.

Lauren Russell is a daughter fighting tenaciously for everything in which she believes, on an endless search for answers, for herself and the world that was taken from her... Alan Russell, a husband and father tragically disconnected from everything he’s ever known, is in heartrending pursuit of his family and a life that left him behind. Alan once told Lauren that he believed they were indivisible, for, they possessed a bond between them that was beyond compare.

For a brief period after the world changed forever, the self-reliant community of Trout Run Valley managed to avoid conflict. They practiced subsistence, and found safety and security within their numbers. As the post-apocalyptic timeline moved forward, it began to spiral downward. Takers had made their presence known, and their malevolent intentions clear, transforming the once benign community into a violent battleground.

In Leah’s mind, the only thing worse than growing up in post-apocalyptic America, is the pressure of being a Redding in post-apocalyptic America. Her brothers are courageous war heroes, her mom is a living legend and symbol of their rebellion against their oppressors, and then there’s Leah. Battling against post-traumatic stress, Leah adds new material to her nightmares living the horrors of war day after day. Her only refuge is found in her best friend, Ty, her unwavering protector, the anchor in her storm, and the only one who seems to understand her.

What it means to be the last of my kind: My nature as Spherit Folk is becoming more difficult to hide. I'm faced with a shocking truth: Only one race can produce a Holy Woman who can save the world, and I'm the last remaining descendant of that race! With the human war raging on and traffic to my family's inn cut off during these tremulous times, I must set off to the Mythical Continent to discover my destiny!

Lauren Russell, her family, and the community of Trout Run Valley had been blessed with a workable blueprint for overcoming nearly insurmountable odds - odds that had been surmounted against them, and others like them, since the blackout, subsequent decline of society, and the world's devolution. The aftermath of the most recent onslaught, a ruthless attack by a menacing enemy, had left them reeling in its wake, leaving a once-sustainable food supply damaged beyond repair and two of their own senselessly murdered.

From the author of New York Times bestseller Real Americans, a brilliant short story collection about love, life, and the anguish of becoming oneself in a time when it’s so easy to be someone else “Surreal and mind-bending, My Dear You proves Khong to be just as much a master of the short...

“Brilliant.” —The Washington Post * “Nuanced and compelling.” —The New York Times From the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, an engrossing dystopian novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands turn second-generation...

A world subjugated by tyranny. A society unraveled. A nation in shambles. A population decimated. A future boundlessly uncertain. A community of families on the verge of extinction. The Russell family is finally reunited and the citizens of Trout Run Valley are blessed with a period of repose, but the interlude does not last. Measures of aggression resume against them yet again, only this time, escalate to an unprecedented degree of ruthlessness, forcing the surviving victims to their breaking points.

A terrifying new plague pushes mankind to the brink of extinction. One child holds the key to survival. After years locked away in a secret government lab, she makes her daring escape in a desperate bid to save mankind before it's too late.

Kyra has always made it a habit to follow the rules. Or, more specifically, she has done so in hopes of staying out of sight and out of mind to those around her. Ever since she was taken prisoner, even with the feelings she's kept towards those responsible for killing her mother, she's never had an issue keeping her head down. That is, until she and her entire prison sector are relocated, and those feelings begin to bubble to the surface as tensions grow.

Dessa Lakewood was an ordinary girl, until she wasn't. Within a few short moments she was an orphan, an only survivor in a family of four. The state took control of her life then and put her into the Workforce, a system for the criminally charged...and the lost. Dessa is forced to work and live alongside convicted criminals and be put in the hands of many caretakers, though not all of them as caring as one might think.

Henry’s world ended the day the airport burned. Now, with only a satchel, a plan, and one last promise to his wife, he walks hundreds of miles through the wreckage of civilization—armed with nothing but grit, wit, and the fading signal of a distant phone call.