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When John sets out for a weekend camping trip in the Yukon, he never could have imagined the world would be plunged into chaos by the System–a mystical energy wave that destroys electronics and grants game-like powers to humanity. Suddenly, animals are evolving, monsters are spawning, and John finds himself equipped with a character sheet and incredible, physics-defying skills.

Vengeance! Lucy is hunting down the men who did her wrong. One victim at a time! How can she achieve this in a world full of vicious predators both human and inhuman and who is the unlikely stranger she has grown an alliance with? Can Michael, Shelby and the Uncles of the Apocalypse free Tim, Steven and Mr Oscar from the horrific chains of The Hunter and most importantly will Horacio complete the twelve tasks to become an Uncle?

When Lilly was first chief engineer at The Commonwealth, nearly 50 years ago, the Central Archive wasn't yet the greatest repository of knowledge in the known world, protected by scribes copying every piece of found material - books, maps, even scraps of paper - and disseminating them by Archive Runners to hidden off-site locations for safe keeping. Back then, there was no Order of Silence to create and maintain secret routes deep into the sand-covered towers of the Gone World or into the northern forests beyond Sea Glass Lake.

Colton Beck has six months to live. He works for the Angor near Los Angeles, aware that any day could be his last. The Angor arrived 20 years ago, resolved to help mankind survive, but not everyone believes their motives are honorable. When the Angor offer humanity a colony world, Colton is determined to see another planet before his final breath. He’s been diagnosed with Xeno, a rare disorder that surfaced with the Angor’s arrival, but he won’t let this stop him.

Her home. Her parents. Her freedom. Gone. His dreams. His sister. Himself. Lost. Two people. One future. The economy crashed, the country is floundering, and Carrie Ashworth struggles to keep her siblings alive. She has two jobs in her newly-formed, newly-outlawed clan: grow crops to feed 36 people, and maintain contact with Oliver Simmons, their local patrolman. Carrie's life is almost perfect when Greg Pierce shows up. He's a man with the ambition to help them survive - a man determined to hate her.

Warned that a planet-killing asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, acquaintances Kat and Ryan join forces in an effort to survive. Mere hours before impact, they race toward the safety of Ryan's inherited South Dakota bunker, encountering chaos. A last-ditch effort to nuke the asteroid only manages to fragment it into chunks causing multiple strikes.

Life is a fast-paced thriller with a satirical, conspiracy backdrop. This is part one of a trilogy. Each book stands by itself but grows in intensity with each subsequent book. Life: A young computer hacker, Robinhood of the future, discovers our world is manipulated through our thought, created by the governments raising the tax rate to astronomical levels to enslave mankind's thoughts into poverty. Now he must join "The Uprising," to fight the powers, and accept his new role as their leader.

After months of carrying burdens alone through the apocalypse, Adrian finally has the help he needs. Five of the six have come, and he can’t wait to get things started. With Angie’s power and his own secret skills, he is about to rebuild an entire country - if he can keep them away from the slavers long enough to get these special people to bond. Can he hold the enemy at bay while teaching his people how to be survivors? If they won’t work together, the apocalypse will kill them all.

As the world faces soaring pollution, overpopulation, and rising sea level, the ruling elite comes up with a bold, terrifying plan. Detective Bremen is tired of crime and politics. All he wants is a safe future for his son, Petie. But during a gruesome murder investigation, he is thrown into a twisted world of corruption and deceit.

Hacker and freedom fighter Kita Yamasaki has a new world to build. The granddaughter of Benjamin Yamasaki, a scientist and ambassador striving to make peace with the invading alien Teth, Kita was raised in the Forever Winter, a freezing, gray post-nuclear wasteland where humankind's last survivors dodge the murderous alien Vay and ally with the Teth, who arrived on Earth with the A-tech now critical to survival.

The thrilling conclusion to the Next series. Struggling to survive in a hostile post-apocalyptic world, Rachel Wheeler and her friends are caught between a strange mutant species and a desperate military government. Rachel is torn between two mighty forces, but she is the last hope for altering a terrible, ruthless verdict that will destroy them all.

A hundred years ago, there was a cataclysm. Maybe a biological weapon was set off, or a parasite evolved...honestly, no one really cares any more. What matters is that the parasite was airborne, infectious, and could live in any warm-blooded creature. Those affected are driven insane and mutate, becoming a threat to those around them.

The stories in this second anthology explore the legends of the Outlands, beyond the border of humanity's immediate control, where strange and powerful creatures roam.

Only Alpha can fix this. Alpha and Kyle have toiled all day to carefully construct the perfect dinner date for Tina, whose crippling depression has bedridden her for months. Why is Tina so miserable, and why does she place so much blame on Alpha, whose dominance of humanity has solved all of the world's problems? Throughout the course of the evening, logic clashes against depression. Rationalizations against uncompromising morality. Love against revenge.