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Cassie Blake lives a simple life on a ranch with her family. Although she hates having to go to the city, when a dear friend makes plans to come visit, Cassie makes the drive to the airport to pick her up. While waiting at the airport, an event occurs that will change her life forever.

Denise Armstrong is a nurse, mother, widow, and military veteran. Raised by prepper grandparents, she learned at an early age to watch national and world events closely. She has been paying close attention to the economy, both around the world and at home. As she sees signs in her own community of the slowing of the economy, she begins to experience premonitions of a cataclysm to come.

Step into the heart-pounding world of The Straits, a thrilling novel set in 1978, where one man's ordinary life is shattered by a ruthless chain of events. Brad Solomon, a bar manager at a remote mountaintop resort, becomes entangled in a deadly game when his daughter is taken hostage by ruthless mercenaries.

Former pro football player and West Texas high school coach Gale McClanahan is plucked out of obscurity to lead the San Antonio Lone Stars. But as he uncovers the true motives of the team's shady owner, McClanahan's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to coach at football’s highest level turns into a nightmare of treachery and deceit.

Hundreds of years after a plague-induced apocalypse collapsed civilization back to iron and horsepower, the Hyllises have a genetic tendency to inherit “talents”. Eva Hyllis and her ancestors became healers because their talents let them feel inside their patients. This helped them diagnose the underlying causes of many illnesses. Eva’s children Tarc and Daussie have inherited telekinetic and teleportation talents.

Captain Meredith Simmons and her pilot husband Lincoln were formerly officers for the Commonwealth, but each of them have now traded their commissions for civilian life and now make a living running cargo on their space freighter Celia. Everything is business as usual until a customer makes the unusual request for the Celia to take a young girl home with them as a passenger back to her people on the outer rim. As time passes, the crew begins to notice that there is more than meets the eye to their young passenger.

As daunting as the end of the world, nuclear fallout, World War III, civil unrest, economic collapse, solar flares, EMP attacks, and other apocalyptic scenarios may be, society has always been interested in the “what if?” of a post-apocalyptic world. Jerry’s stories provide interesting and practical perspectives of heroes and villains navigating post-apocalyptic scenarios including everything from Mad Max-type of events to more relevant plotlines that seem as if they could have come from the headlines of the modern world.

The Paiutes warned the settlers, but they didn’t listen. Now, their desert town, Big Bell Station, is cursed. A century later, Big Bell has become a failed casino town and money launderer’s paradise where depravity is overlooked and morality is scarce, and where the desert—and the coyotes—have a deadly mind of their own. When a scorned outlaw motorcycle club and a wanted jewel thief find themselves in the godforsaken town, they’ll stay just long enough to get the revenge and retribution they came for and get out. But when the Devil of the Desert comes home… No one is going anywhere.

When Horatio Billings returned from a trip, and first met Penny, she was sitting behind his receptionist/paralegal’s desk in his office. He had absolutely no idea why she was there instead of his girlfriend who was also his current receptionist/paralegal.

Darlene was a prepper. As she wrestled the polymer barrel onto its stand beside the other five, she thought to herself how a whole house cistern would have been so much better, but she hadn’t been able to get a variance to install one. The particular suburb she lived in was like that. Even with water shortages in the news almost every day, they wouldn’t let her, or anyone else, install a cistern. At least they didn’t deny her the barrels. Possibly because she hadn’t mentioned them to anyone. Darlene smiled as the thought crossed her mind.

Neal Grant watched silently as the cemetery workers buried his family. It was just him now, alone, something he’d never been before. First, his parents and siblings had passed and then his wife and three wonderful children. All of them were gone forever now - all dead at the same time because of a drunk driver and a foggy road. Little did Neal know that this was only the beginning of things to come. Soon he would realize that he had not only lost his family, but must also deal with a failing economy and a nuclear war.

For ex-Texas Ranger Sam Bolton, life was good. He had a successful ranch and a beautiful wife, and was content. Until he gets word a dangerous outlaw is coming for him. An outlaw that has built a reputation that rivals any Sam has ever heard of. Now all Sam has worked for has been threatened, forcing Sam to make the toughest decision of his life. Tom Bowdry made his reputation as killer. Lightning Sam Bolton made his years ago as a symbol of justice. When these two meet, bullets will surely fly.

When Staff Sergeant Paul Masset’s thirst for revenge gets his best friend killed and himself wounded in Afghanistan he's discharged by the army and drifts in a downward spiral. Years pass and finds himself a Caribbean charter boat captain, but it's only a cover for drug trafficking. Abby Gray is a driven corporate lawyer who travels to Belize trying to find her missing party girl sister. Armed with only a few cell phone pictures, she begins her search. The trail leads her to a tropical paradise and Masset’s fishing boat.

When Larhonda Richards is kidnapped by a survivalist cult, her father hires Brady Collingsworth to find her. Brady is an experienced private detective and will not let anything stop him from bringing her home. Nothing, that is, except for her own wishes. When Brady finds her and realizes that she was no kidnapped at all but has joined a group of like-minded preppers to prepare for an apocalyptic weather event, his own mind starts to question whether or not he himself is prepared.

An unpretentious man lives humbly while his braggadocio neighbor buys the latest gadgets and status symbols. When hard times come, his humble lifestyle pays off, but his neighbors believe they are entitled to the resources he sacrificed to obtain. As society collapses around him, can John Havingsworth stick to his values and also keep his friends, not to mention his life?

When the nuclear bombs start flying a single mother escapes to a Mutual Assistance Group retreat with her two small children. The post-apocalyptic world that soon follows is a dangerous place, and they will have to learn new skills to survive. Her young son especially will need all the help he can get, and he finds an unexpected boost from a cowboy action shooter who planned ahead for the worst.

The murder of a notorious rival high school coach thrusts former pro football player Gale McClanahan into a new and deadly game. Determined to safeguard a dark family secret, McClanahan is blackmailed into coaching the hated Caton Panthers. Little does he know that beneath the Friday night lights lies a level of corruption unprecedented in West Texas.

An extinction-level event. A planet killer with no warning and no time to prepare. Earth would become cold and lifeless, a rogue planet in the vacuum of interstellar space. Would hastily constructed igloos and tunnels keep the flame of life alight? One person believed so, and the fragment of humanity that had survived put their trust in him. Thus, upon assuming absolute power, he became responsible for all life, all society, and all hope.

Just when Clay Brentwood thought things were about to quiet down, new trouble comes his way in the form of Austin, Texas, Judge Horatio B. Tyson. The judge sends Bill McDaniel, head of the Texas Rangers, on a manhunt with two murder warrants; both for Clay Brentwood.

Uncovered Justice takes the listener to the inside of a narcotics investigation unit in Western New York. Undercover operations, search warrants, surveillance, drug buys, corruption… The story reveals the passion and commitment required to build a court-ready drug case and the many avenues a meticulous investigation can take; both the expected and the unexpected.