Apocalyptic Women Fiction

★★★★★ "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...

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.

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 ...

From Award-winning & USA Today bestselling author Kim Petersen comes a post-apocalyptic vampire thriller packed with surprising twists, heart, and chilling violence... What if Saving Humanity Means Facing Your Greatest Fears?Book 1 - Undead A deadly virus has claimed the lives of millions and ravaged the earth. Human survivors spend their days and nights fighting to stay alive in the new world. A surviving human, Jett, has plans to get his family further off-grid. Still, his ideas fall apart when his woman suddenly disappears at the hands of the hawkers – the most deplorable and dangerous...

Riley and Will are motorcycle buddies on a mission to rescue Riley's nephew, who's been kidnapped by his father. When a solar flare throws them all together, there's going to be problems.

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 ...

Deep underground, 39 women are kept in isolation in a cage. Aboveground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the 40th prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them aboveground.

Johnny gets stuck in a 10 day quarantine with his neighbor Lily, making life even harder than usual for both of them. They get along well, and he'd much rather have company over ten days of isolation. There's no explanation for why they have to stay inside, and they can't keep their power on for long enough to listen to the news. In the morning, Lily sleeps in. He goes to her bedroom to check on her around noon, and finds her in a rabid state, staring back at him with hungry eyes. He hasn't been with a woman in a long time, and it's obvious she's desperately in need. Primal desires involves...

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.

The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland - a lethal illness that seems to effect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic - and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien - a women's world.

In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirls following their tour turn into something monstrous. After their parents remarry, two step-sisters, one a girl and one a wolf, develop a dangerously close bond.

In a world undone, a mother’s grief becomes humanity’s last hope. The skies split. A Being descended. And in the silence that followed, everything changed. Cities collapsed. Oceans receded. Millions vanished. In the aftermath, one woman remains—Mara, a trauma nurse and mother, shattered by loss. But she is chosen, not to escape… but to witness. Across memories of fallen civilizations, she learns Earth is not the first to face judgment. Others came before. Most failed. Now, a small band of survivors must journey across a scarred world. Each bears a wound—grief, doubt, guilt, silence.

When a bizarre string of unusual corpses washes up on the beaches of San Diego during Halloween week, Detective Lindsey Brant requires more than her usual set of skills to solve the mystery. Joining forces with horror writer James Archer, the two will have to survive a scourge of undead, international killers, unscrupulous reporters, and rogue spies if they're to unravel the long-buried mystery of a deadly virus that could bring humanity to its knees. But their greatest threat to the case may just be surviving each other. See if the two will succeed in saving the world in this irreverent ...

When the world ends, can love survive? For Scarlet, raising her two daughters alone means fighting for tomorrow is an everyday battle. Nathan has a wife, but can't remember what it's like to be in love; only his young daughter Zoe makes coming home worthwhile. Miranda's biggest concern is whether her new VW Bug is big enough to carry her sister and their boyfriends on a weekend escape from college finals. When reports of a widespread, deadly "outbreak" begin to surface, these ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances and suddenly their fates are intertwined.

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 ...

Shadows of the Forgotten – The Shadows Series Book 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________ In a world where AI reigns and freedom is but a whisper, one man's forgotten past could ignite the revolution. Allen Mercer wakes to find his memories erased, his identity stolen by the very society that now hunts him. In a world where crumbling cities are shadowed by surveillance and ruled by synthetic intelligence, he's just another number—until he isn't. A chance encounter with the elusive rebel Mia Turner pulls him into a world of ...

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...

The war against the undead may be turning, but for Elle Russo, the real battle has just begun. Reeling from the death of her sister and the destruction of The Prescott, Elle finds herself stranded on a military aircraft carrier, safe but hollow. Every inch of the ship reminds her of who she’s lost and who didn’t make it out. Grief has turned her inward, until an explosive encounter with a man she thought was behind bars jolts her back to life and back into trouble. Lieutenant-Colonel Nick Jones isn’t here to coddle survivors. Hardened by years on the front lines, Nick sees in Elle the...

Day one: The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the Earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. Week Two: Civilization has crumbled. Year Twenty: A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and it threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild.

Promises Made by the Undead Remain Undead. A mysterious prophecy has come to pass with the arrival of a newborn baby. Now, the rebirth of a long-buried species threatens the survival of the vampire clan - the Lygarou has reawakened with an unquenchable thirst for blood. The next full moon is looming, and Jett has no choice but to face the reckoning in exchange for his freedom. He must find and kill the wolf-mother and her baby before his sire destroys all he holds dear. "Get in, kill the wolves, get out." That's the plan, but when Jett unearths the truth about the Lygarou bloodlines, he is ...