Disaster Thriller

Are you ready for the end of the world? Brace yourself for a thrilling ride as the Earth is delivered a mortal blow in BROKEN EARTH: DESTRUCTION, the first book in a gripping new thriller series. On a typical Tuesday in an average July week, all of Iceland's volcanoes erupt at once, followed by the complete destruction of the Azores Archipelago and the violent sundering of the Atlantic Ocean. Millions are dead and the Earth is left in ruins. Is this the beginning of the end? As calamity strikes, the best and worst of humanity is brought to the surface. In Nebraska, former USGS geologist Ben...

Today’s UV Index: Lethal Deep inside the sun, magnetic lines of force are growing…building in ways not experienced for a millennium. When a pair of increasingly severe solar storms disables internet, communications, and GPS for millions around the globe, helioseismologist Greyson Finn fears the imminent arrival of a cataclysmic super flare, a magnetic explosion of the sun with the potential to obliterate life on earth. In a desperate bid to help the world prepare, Finn and his fellow scientists rush to address the critical question: will the solar weather subside, or is the worst yet to...

HELL MIGHT NOT FREEZE OVER... BUT EARTH WILL A planetary-mass object pierces the asteroid belt, hurling thousands of asteroids into the inner solar system. When the first of many catastrophic Earth impacts occurs, the resulting mass destruction heralds mankind’s looming extinction. In a desperate bid to save humanity, geologist Carter Ferguson seeks to establish safe havens inside volcanic caverns. But the impending stream of cataclysmic impacts isn’t Carter’s only challenge. A former U.S senator seeks to divert the world’s diminishing resources to her pet project: “aquacities”...

When an extinct Alaskan peak roars back to life, geologist Sam Shore and volcanologist Irina Toropova find themselves at the epicenter of a catastrophe no one saw coming—except one woman. A dead scientist’s impossible theory. A mountain that should have slept forever. A planet edging toward its breaking point. Susan Shore died chasing a theory the scientific world dismissed. A cascading chain reaction beneath the mantle capable of triggering a global seismic collapse. But when Mount Merryman—quiet for millennia—detonates along the Ring of Fire and the Anchorage basin buckles under ...

When Dr. Emily Pickett prepares to present evidence that 4I/SWAN may not be natural, threats follow. And the scientific establishment closes ranks. Meanwhile, her brother, Daniel, uncovers proof that powerful forces have been monitoring the object since its discovery and their family for even longer than that. Five days. That’s all the time the Pickett family has before an interstellar object designated 4I/SWAN makes its closest approach to Earth. The conspiracy they uncovered was just the beginning. Now comes the catastrophe.

When NASA’s SWAN space telescope detects a faint ultraviolet anomaly beyond the orbit of Jupiter, astronomers assume it’s a comet—an interstellar visitor drifting harmlessly through space. But as more data pours in from observatories around the world, the excitement turns to confusion then to fear.4I/SWAN isn’t just unusual. It’s breaking all the rules.

A mega-earthquake is coming. And it’s not natural. Beneath Los Angeles, something is moving. When mutilated bodies start appearing in the city’s subway tunnels, Detective Alana Williams is assigned a case that makes no sense— Until the ground begins to shake. Seismologist Dr. Michael Trent is tracking a series of impossible tremors. Not random. Not geological. Engineered. Something ancient is awake beneath California. Something intelligent. And it’s building toward a catastrophic event powerful enough to destroy the entire West Coast. As the tremors escalate, the government prepares...

A cataclysmic earthquake shatters the Cascadia Subduction Zone, triggering massive tremors, 100-foot tsunamis, and the collapse of entire cities. The destruction spirals across the West Coast and beyond, ripping open the San Andreas fault and other hidden fractures in the Earth's crust. Civilization unravels, leaving the once-thriving West Coast in ruins. But the true nightmare is just beginning. In Oregon, the ground refuses to settle. New and terrifying threats emerge as the survivors struggle to make sense of a world torn apart. Among them are Reed Walker, a battle-hardened EMT from ...

"A disaster thriller that will keep you sitting on the edge of the seat and holding your breath...Fast-paced and perfectly developed, the action never stops in Supertide, and relentlessly grows until the end. A must-read for thriller fans." - Reader's Favorite A "terrifying, science-driven thriller...Freeman humanizes the plot through scenes giving the perspective of ordinary people caught up in the cataclysm." - Publisher's Weekly No need to visit the ocean. The ocean is coming to visit you. Deep in the Atlantic, the ocean floor is shifting, changing in ways unseen for millions of years. ...

With real-world considerations in mind, disaster preparedness consultant David Black shows us how to stay alive when tragedy strikes. His step-by-step actions can help us make it safely through a variety of crises, from catastrophic weather to terrorism to civil unrest. Black presents tailor-made plans for individuals, businesses, organizations, small groups, and communities to follow, in all regions of the country and broken down by type of emergency and environment.

Ninety days after the sky fell, the real crisis begins. The comet has passed. The sky has stopped falling. But for the Pickett family and the seven billion survivors left in its wake, the nightmare is only beginning. Across the globe, strange metallic objects have appeared. Seamless, silent, and immovable. They cannot be destroyed. They cannot be captured. And they are watching.

A slow, sickening roll. A mournful shriek from the sirens. For the small town of Port Blossom, it’s the beginning of the end. On a quiet Friday morning, the residents of a peaceful Oregon coastal town are going about their lives. A mother hurries to get her daughter to school. A weary teacher prepares for one last field trip before retirement. A proud innkeeper argues over repairs to her historic hotel . High above them, a lone seismologist on a forced vacation understands the terrifying truth: a megathrust earthquake has just ruptured the Cascadia subduction zone, and a catastrophic ...

Major volcanoes across the Pacific Rim — from Indonesia to the Americas — erupt in quick succession, each more violent than the last. As the earth trembles and cities fall into chaos, the world is plunged into an unprecedented crisis. It begins at the Cascadia Subduction Zone off America's Pacific Northwest. Triggered by an undersea volcanic eruption, the Ring of Fire has been awakened by sudden shifts in tectonic pressure setting the stage for a global extinction level event.

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 ...

PROJECT HYPERCANE: GALVESTON When the ocean boils, the storms become unstoppable… A series of violent underwater volcanic eruptions in the Atlantic triggers a nightmare scenario: rising ocean temperatures fuel hurricanes into unstoppable hypercane-class storms—massive, sustained tempests capable of destroying entire coastlines. Stopping them will take more than science. The key lies in an extraordinarily rare mineral—one that can only be identified during surges of catastrophic energy, and collected by traveling through a fold in time and space. Get ready for a heart-pounding, edge-of...

Three months after catastrophic events decimated the West Coast, Reed Walker, Chloe Cooper, and the Clark kids have found a fragile peace in their new home along the Mississippi River in Kentucky. The past still haunts them, but they’re starting to rebuild, to hope again. Then, without warning, the earth begins to tremble— and the nightmare begins anew… A new mega quake erupts in the heart of America, ripping through the New Madrid Seismic Zone with apocalyptic fury. Geologists can’t explain why this is happening even as the ground splits wide open. The central U.S. is plunged into ...

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 ...

Across the world, the United States recalls troops to combat civil unrest after the biggest economic meltdown in history. Marine Sergeant Ronaldo Salvatore’s platoon comes home to a powder keg that could ignite a civil war. While some see the coming collapse as the end, others see opportunity. Fleeing Naples after rival crime lords decimated his family, Don Antonio Moretti settles in Los Angeles to rebuild his criminal empire. But he is far from alone in his ambitions.

Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energy supplies, and wars of water scarcity threaten the planet. Only four people canprevent global chaos.

From award-winning, critically acclaimed crime writer Lev Rosen comes a punchy, hilarious mystery-thriller. Meet the disaster gays: They’re messy. They’re queer. And they’re about to solve a murder… Or die trying. "Madcap and criminally good. Lev Rosen has served up a sharp mystery...