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When a classic wooden schooner is discovered adrift in the Gulf Stream off St. Augustine, Florida—fully rigged and intact, but with no trace of its origins—young boatbuilder Nathan Kirks is tasked with its survey. Fresh from a Maine apprenticeship and working at a maritime museum, Nathan knows traditional wooden boats, but this 45-footer is a riddle: no records, no markings, no owner—just a seaworthy ghost ship with an untraceable past.

Tourists visit popular islands of the Caribbean by the planeload. What they don't see from their resort hotels are the hundreds of out-of-the-way, uninhabited islands sprinkled along the West Indies, from Florida to South America. This alluring archipelago, strung with beaches accessible only by boat but spaced temptingly close together, led Mississippi adventurer Scott B. Williams to embark upon an open-ended quest to see how far south he could go in a 17-foot sea kayak.

A glitch in time. A nation in ruins. One Marine’s fight to survive a future that shouldn’t exist. When Marine combat veteran Alan Carson sets off on a solo hike through New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, he’s searching for peace—and a path forward after years at war. What he finds is a dead man, a hidden cave, and a one-way passage seventeen years into the future… into a world where America has collapsed into chaos and survival is anything but guaranteed.

In a near future, post-apocalyptic America, terror attacks, riots and insurrection have turned cities and towns into war zones... Professional security contractor and former Navy SEAL, Eric Branson, has been away fighting ongoing insurgencies in Europe when he learns his own country faces the same fate. But before he can make his way back home to Florida, a catastrophic hurricane deals the final blow to an infrastructure already ravaged by riots and terror attacks, leaving survivors cut off and on their own.

Finding Megan alive and in a place of relative safety is a major turning point in Eric Branson's quest. But even though he's reached his main objective, Eric's mission is far from over. Eric made a hard choice when he left Shauna and Jonathan behind to catch up to Megan, and he knew when he did it, there would be consequences. Determined to set things right and move on to the next stage of his plan, Eric will retrace his route into the wilderness, but this time he won't be riding alone.

Eric Branson and his brother Keith have established a stronghold and base of operations for their newly-formed militia in the maze of remote waterways that make up the vast Atchafalaya Swamp. But before they can even begin training for what they plan to do next, they must first conduct a rescue mission pitting them against a fortified and well-equipped enemy force.

Former Navy SEAL and security contractor Eric Branson has accomplished the first half of his mission—finding his daughter, Megan. But though he’s rescued her from the dangers she faced in the Rockies, Eric is still a long way from getting her and the rest of his family to a place of real safety. Treachery strikes from multiple fronts, sidetracking Eric and taking him far from those he loves as he faces down new enemies that threaten to derail his plans. Read Sabotage, Defiance and Alliances: the seventh, eighth and ninth books in the Feral Nation Series right here in one collection.

Former Navy SEAL and security contractor Eric Branson has reunited with most of the surviving members of his family, but he still hasn’t found the one person he came here to get: his only daughter, Megan. Eric’s quest has taken him from south Florida across the Gulf of Mexico, and from there he will make his way up the Mississippi River and west to the Colorado Rockies. What he finds out there in those mountains will change everything, but nothing will stop him until his mission is complete.

A Battle for Survival... commander Mitchell Reyes, the ruthless C.R.I. leader, escalates his tactics to crush the civilian resistance in the Atchafalaya Basin. Determined to eliminate Eric Branson and his allies at any cost, Reyes unleashes a campaign of terror that will test the limits of the resistance. Eric leads a daring counteroffensive against C.R.I. forces, but when the mission takes an unexpected turn, he finds himself in a race against time through treacherous swampland. With enemies at every turn, Eric must use all his skills to keep his team alive while evading relentless pursuit.

Deputy Keith Branson and the rest of Eric’s family and friends are holding their own at Sierra Zulu, their hidden place of refuge deep in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya swamp. But enemy forces are determined to hunt them down and kill them in their quest to dominate the region and control the navigable waterways connecting the Gulf of Mexico with all points north. The growing militia consisting of new volunteers from a displaced and oppressed population are making a valiant stand against overwhelming odds, but will it be enough without outside help?

In Book One of In Times to Come, Alan Carson passes through a glitch in time that rips him right out of 2012, the year he has returned from his final deployment with the Marine Corps in the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

Eric Branson and his team have dealt their enemies a decisive blow, wiping out an entire unit of rogue soldiers and liberating refugees from the largest detention camp in the region.

The grid has been down for seven months now, and law and order has completely given way to anarchy and violence. Seventeen-year-old Mitch Henley has returned to his family's backwoods homestead to avoid the dangers of the cities and towns and look after his little sister while they wait hopefully for their parents' return.

Back from his final deployment with the US Marines, Alan Carson is hiking across New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness to ponder his future and put the war in his past. When his best friend and squad leader, Sergeant Kurt Timms, took a Taliban bullet because of bad intel, Alan made a promise to his dying friend. He would come here to see the rugged mountains that were Kurt’s boyhood stomping grounds. But deep in a trackless canyon, miles from any trail, Alan finds something else: the body of a dead man at the foot of a cliff, an ancient cave…and a passageway too intriguing to ignore.

Sometimes the best defense is a good offense...Now that Eric Branson and his small militia have a much better idea of what they’re up against, it’s time to go on the offensive and take the fight to the enemy. The first mission involves the rescue of the friends he and Jonathan met on the upper Atchafalaya River. But Eric Branson won’t ignore the opportunity to strike hard at the heart of the operation that is bringing so much fear and disruption to the residents of the region.

As massive solar flares bombard the Earth, an intense electromagnetic pulse brings down America’s long-neglected power grid. The electric age ends and anarchy descends as desperate citizens panic. Artie Drager, whose dream Bahamas vacation turns into every parent’s worst nightmare, finds himself stranded thousands of miles from his home and only daughter, Jessica. As the horrible aftermath unfolds, Jessica is frantic about her father lost somewhere at sea. But first she must save herself right at home.

Massive solar flares bombard the Earth. An intense electromagnetic pulse undermines America’s power grid, wreaking havoc. Panic and chaos ensue in cities like New Orleans, where 16-year-old Mitch Henley was stranded after driving his parents to the airport. The son of a game warden in a rural Mississippi county, Mitch is an expert hunter and woodsman and knows he can survive back on his family’s remote 600 acres. With no way to know if his parents’ plane landed safely or crashed because of the pulse, Mitch sets out alone to walk home.

How far would you go to get your family out if you were convinced that America was doomed? Would you build an underground bunker and stockpile it with ammunition and supplies? Buy a cabin in the woods and start growing all your own food? Not if you were obsessed with boats the way Terry Bailey is obsessed. Terry has an escape plan to sail to the very ends of the earth; the only real option left to survive what's coming, according to him.

As Eric Branson meets new friends and foes in his struggle to prevent the hostile occupation of his brother’s jurisdiction and the broader Gulf Coast region, the intel he gathers leads to stunning conclusions. Eric’s focus until now has been to defend his tribe, namely, his immediate family, and the small group of friends and allies that have joined them. Will knowledge of a vast conspiracy change his priorities, or will he still choose to leave behind a nation in ruins?

Eric Branson has done his best to mind his business and look out for his own. But when he’s backed into a corner even as his goal is in sight, Eric’s course of action is straightforward and clear. The odds aren't on his side, but experience, tenacity and courage still are. Will they be enough to save his family?