Apocalyptic Women Fiction

A Family Fights to Survive in a World Overrun by the Infected… From the author of Crawlerz comes the first five gripping novels in a brutal, emotional, and action-packed seven-book saga. When a rapidly spreading infection plunges the United States into chaos, Randy and Kelly are separated from their daughters by more than a thousand miles of carnage. With civilization collapsing around them, the family must navigate hostile terrain, from the rocky shores of Block Island, Rhode Island to the sweltering Florida heat, facing not only the ravenous infected, but desperate survivors who will do...

★★★★★ "The most engaging post apocalyptic/dystopian thriller I've ever read!" ★★★★★ "Holy Cow!" No Power. No Telephone. No internet. No T.V. No Transport. Nothing. What will you do when the world as we know it stops? For Kate Wolfe, the answer is simple - whatever it takes to protect her family. For Bob Jackson and his militia, it's the day they've been planning for. The day they take control. When the two collide, as the city of Boise falls to ruin, nobody can predict how things will end. ★★★★★ "I put Murray in the same class as Brad Thor, James Rollins, David...

The fault strikes back. The heartland rips wider. A family pushed to the breaking point. Dr. Elijah Gentry slams his seismograph charts on the FEMA counter, voice cutting through the chaos as he warns the geologist: the next rupture is coming east—bridges failing, cities turning to quicksand in hours. No one is listening fast enough. He has to make them hear before the next wave buries everything. Erin Mason shoves her terrified students through the shattered museum halls, Ethan burning with fever under her arm as gunshots crack below and looters close in. One wrong step and they’re ...

A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society. Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn't just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before.

A devastating earthquake. A fractured heartland. A family torn apart. Cassidy Mason laughs with her classmates on a Kentucky school bus, twisting through backcountry roads. In an instant, the pavement cracks like glass, and the bus tumbles into a ravine. Buried in twisted steel and screams, she claws through agony and fear, forcing herself to emerge into an unknown disaster where safety might not exist. Will Mason grips the wheel of his Ohio River tugboat, calling orders to his crew as another routine shift begins. But when the water heaves like a beast awakened, the river churns into chaos...

This apocalyptic book contains three separate stories, including a volcano disaster thriller, a tsunami story, and a tornado disaster thriller that takes place in a dystopian setting.

Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared - or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors in search of answers. Long-dead volcanoes erupt, the ground rattles and splits, and monsters come to ominous life. Calliope will be forced to reconcile the geological record with the heritage she once denied.

I was asleep when the world burned. Zain Stone is a rising star at tech giant Thanatos Industries, developing the technology to stop death. But when the building comes under attack, he risks life and limb to protect his research. When he wakes in a cryo chamber, twenty years into the future, everything has changed. The world, which once valued technology so much, has come to despise it. And the girl who woke him up–the beautiful Amy, with strawberry blonde hair and a sweet disposition–might be a cyborg he designed himself. Soon, Zain finds that it’s not just that he needs to survive ...

The river reverses. The last road floods. A family closing the distance between them. Will Mason braces against a fence post as the cornfield dissolves beneath his boots, a geyser of sand and water erupting behind him. One wrong move and he’ll never find Erin. With the ground turning to soup for miles in every direction, every step carries him farther from the wife he’s desperate to find. Erin Mason folds a road map against a shuttered fruit stand and tells her students they're leaving. Staying on the convoy could mean watching them drown. With a compass in her hand and eight teenagers ...

Brave Enough to Run Hannah Starr finds herself in the same demise as Rylee Cooper when the Universal Army searches for her, hunting her down like a criminal, when the only thing she did was to refuse to accept the government's ruling. Is this how Rylee, her friend who disappeared months ago, felt when she escaped into the wilderness, running from the hands of the government? Hannah’s only choice is to run or be killed. How will she survive the wilderness alone, with no food or water, and desperately looking for her friend? Rip Maxwell pushes aside his anger and the need for revenge to ...

When the Gardens Died A quiet, powerful dystopian novel about women, food, and what survives when the world doesn’t. Jennifer Cole was planting onions when the sky turned red. The bombs didn’t hit her town. The grocery trucks just stopped coming. As cities burn and systems fail, Jennifer stays on her land—because the soil still listens. While panic spreads and shelves empty, she plants. She saves seed. She prepares for a truth most people refuse to face: Starvation will kill more people than the collapse itself. When women from her past begin arriving—each carrying skills, knowledge...

"Narrator Nancy Wu delivers an outstanding performance of this cheeky satirical novel...Listeners will be entertained by the world building; cast of amusing, eccentric characters; and bizarre charm of the aloof heroine." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner Maybe it’s the end of the...

A deadly world. A fragile bond. A promise that might cost everything. Kenshiro never asked for a companion especially not one like Elliott, a quirky teen with a strange gift and a mountain of trauma. But in the ruins of La Veta, Colorado, a dead woman’s note changed everything. Now, Kenshiro has made it his mission to keep Elliott alive. And it’s getting harder by the day. Wounded, exhausted, and reeling from an encounter that nearly ended them, Kenshiro begins to doubt his ability to protect the boy he never meant to care for. As the safety of their new life crumbles, they’re forced ...

A primate geneticist abducted on an ocean tour. A mysterious cult that worships the spirit of a prehistoric monk. A zombie attack in the Pacific Northwest. What else can unfold when operatives from the newly-formed covert branch ZEST (Zombie Eradication & Studies Team) go into action? Former San Diego Detective Lindsey Brant and bestselling horror writer James Archer get assigned to track down the clues that point to a terrorist bent on creating murderous undead killers but first they must discover which direction their love-hate relationship is heading in this snarky, zombie crime-caper.

Betrayed. Hunted. Surrounded by the dead. Kenshiro was supposed to lead a routine supply run until everything went wrong. Trapped behind enemy lines in a city overrun by the undead, he quickly discovers that the mission was a setup. Betrayed by those he once called allies, Kenshiro must survive an impossible escape and confront a truth that shakes him to his core. But he has no time to process the betrayal because somewhere out there, Elliott is in danger. Back at The Prescott, Elle is blindsided when she's locked away cut off from everyone she loves and powerless to intervene. When Elliott...

Brad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Elle Refinery29 PopSugar Verge "Eerie, dark, and compelling, [The Book of M] will not disappoint lovers of The Passage and Station Eleven." —Booklist WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in...

In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that “barrels along like a freight train” (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? In a future so real and...

When the world fell silent, survival began. Three novels. One unforgettable journey through the ashes of a world reborn. When a deadly infection shatters civilization, survival becomes more than staying alive—it’s about holding onto humanity. From the first desperate nights underground to the fragile hope of rebuilding, Wild Remnants follows those left behind as they fight, love, and rebuild in the ruins of Far North Queensland. Book One: When the Silence Came As the world collapses, paramedic Ciara fights to protect her daughters and find her missing husband. Every decision means life ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.”—STEPHEN KING From the author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia—where the truth isn’t what it seems...

A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this fresh new science fiction masterpiece from the "mastersinger of space opera" (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe. Strap in for a gripping murder...