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Victoria Emerson is a congressional member of the US House of Representatives for the state of West Virginia. Her aspirations have always been to help her community and to avoid the ambitious power plays of her peers in Washington, DC. Then Major Joseph McCrea appears on her doorstep and uses the code phrase Crimson Phoenix, meaning this is not a drill. The United States is on the verge of nuclear war. Victoria must accompany McCrea to a secure bunker. She cannot bring her family.

In the middle of the night an EMP attack destroys the power grid and havoc ensues at the hospital where Andie is working. There is one thing on her mind and that is to get home to her husband and daughter. She escapes a hospital on lockdown and abandons some of the most critical patients. Finding her way out of a city that’s been thrust into chaos isn’t easy and while Andie thinks making it home is the hard part, wait until you see who she runs into on the way home.

In the long-anticipated and thrilling conclusion of the Born of Ash series, Keira is thrust into a desperate battle for survival when the full power of the ancient precursor technology awakens beneath the war-torn surface of Asherho. Hunted by relentless enemies, and haunted by the rising forces of darkness, Keira must use her unique connection to the machine to outmaneuver the Disunity—a ruthless foe determined to seize control of the galaxy.

Devon C. Ford presents the third book in The Defiance series.

Cam Stassen, a coming-of-age young man. He always thought that he would join the family guild. It wasn’t meant to be. On the summer solstice, the day where all those that turned eighteen throughout the year received their Class. Young Cam was given a unique Class. A crafting Class. Everything changed. He would no longer be the fighter that he grew up training for. He would no longer be able to join the family guild and rise high in the ranks. No, not anymore.

To be human is to be mortal... but, what if you weren't... Cam has learned a critical piece of information. He isn't human, not any longer. Navi has a lot to explain about the rings and what is going on with his body. In the end, he'll have to choose a new path. He can either embrace the bloodline that begins to rule his body. Or, he can force it down and remain human. Whatever he chooses will have lasting consequences on Naomi as well. But that is one problem that plagues the town and their lives. They still have to have the ceremony to become mates.

"A snowflake can start an avalanche, as one act of compassion can change the world". Under the brutal oppression of the Empire, a new era of repression is to begin. The show trials will cease, and the bloody massacre of those deemed unclean or unholy will commence. Calidus Squad of the Imperial Guard has been recalled to Earth, the very seat of the Empire and is tasked with transporting these prisoners to their final destination, where they assume the prisoners will stand trial. Calidus Squad are among 7,000 Imperial Guardsmen assigned to this task by Investigator Celeris.

The race is on. The last remnants of humankind fight to maintain their very existence. Everything is at stake as they push to preserve their homeland. Forward bases have been established, but they have a long ways to go if they’re to carve out a sanctuary. Not only do the survivors have millions of infected to worry about, but there is a ticking time bomb that they have to diffuse. The western forces have secured an island, but it’s not truly theirs. The air is contaminated by the millions of infected.

After a nuclear war devastates the planet, a small group of young people in rural East Texas emerges from a fallout shelter to face a new world. Colorful villains mix with barbarism, anarchy, and chaos as the choices they make influence what kind of new world is born from the ashes of the old.

Wanted by the same government he helped to end the resource war, Robert Phoenix lives a solitary life in the post-war woodlands reclaimed by nature. But when he is tracked down and given an ultimatum, he finds he has little choice except to return to the HIVE city of New Amsterdam to clear his name. Little does he know, a chance encounter with a would-be thief would put them both on a path filled with discovery, death, and destruction. Will Robert rise from the ashes, or burn with the flames?

The year is 2025. Astronaut Caitlyn "Sif" Wagner and her team emerge from stasis to discover that their Mars mission has gone terribly awry - the crew has run off course in space and, they suspect, in time as well. Their damaged ship returns to an Earth reduced to overgrown cities and blasted terrain. Yet humans have somehow survived, living in caves, foraging at night, returned to a tribal existence.

Forced into exile while his friends strive to clear his name, Bishop and his family encounter the best and worst mankind has to offer while they travel the badlands. The human animal is trying to regroup, striving to fill the vacuum in leadership left after the collapse and form productive societies. But it's not easy. The lack of basic necessities has weakened the resolve of many, allowing age-old tendencies to cloud the minds of men. Those that do step up and take the helm of governance may have alternative motives and hidden agendas.

Time is at an end. Jericho is a Paladin, a warrior of the ages given the task of balancing the scales of the universe to keep the very fabrics of time and space from tipping. Chronologically, he’s the first of the super-race. And it looks like he’s also going to be the last. Icarus, the cavalier Irish Paladin from the future, has single-handedly derailed Jericho’s Crusade, murdered thousands of people, stolen the life of one of his closest friends, and brought the world to the brink of destruction.

After discovering he now possesses newfound abilities that are, though helpful at times, frightening to wield, Jericho breaks free, unleashing his raw unpracticed powers before meeting someone who knows more about him than he realizes, sending him on a mad quest for revenge to Anchorage, Alaska, where the man responsible for his current sorrows resides. With a few new comrades in tow, Jericho sets out on a post-apocalyptic road trip from hell across what’s left of North America with all manner of creatures and enemies along the shattered road to glorious vengeance. Welcome to the Wasteland.

Baron is a man from nowhere in a land that has forgotten its name where the dead walk. After killing a strange man in cold blood, Baron finds himself imprisoned-- and inextricably tied to an even stranger woman, Thalia. Thalia harbors a terrible secret. The daughter of immortal scientists, she knows that the zombie outbreak is cyclical; those infected will live again, and generations later, a new outbreak will run its course. And she alone might hold the key to ending the vicious cycle once and for all.

The world finally had its third and then final war. Two remaining teenagers, Marlow and Zane, are left surviving in a church bunker with nothing but a couple ducks. They’ve watched everyone they love pass on from the toxic conditions, and know they aren’t far behind them.

The universe is in chaos. After a mysterious ancient alien race invaded human space, wiping out untold millions on dozens of worlds, humankind teeters on the brink of utter disaster. Only two paths forward seem to exist: enslavement or annihilation. But a small team of humans - seemingly thrown together by fate - emerge from the chaos of the attack, coalescing around a solitary noble warrior and a woman who the enemy seem to fear.

Nearly 1,000 years after humanity has left Earth and taken to the stars, a rift has opened in the center of the galaxy. The rift has been teleporting new planets, known as Nomen, into the solar systems. A period of tense peace begins between formerly warring factions, as a galactic land grab begins to claim and colonize these Nomen. But the mysterious Nomen carry a dark secret within them, a secret that could lead to the end of humanity. This secret is stumbled upon by four unlikely heroes, each from a faction that hates the other.

The year 2050: post-collapse. Despite my growing distrust for Deirdre, here I am, still doing my family's dirty work. Capture a billionaire's daughter - alive. They neglect to tell me one small detail - that like me, she's not human. The mission goes south from minute one and then come the lies. Just when I realize there's much more at stake than the freedom of an aristo's daughter, the family kidnaps my sister and holds her hostage!