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It has been forty years since the storm that ended civilization and sent the world hurtling toward a new ice age. Winters are now long and harsh while summers are almost non-existent. From the north, a foreboding line of dark clouds is slowly but inexorably approaching. It is the coming of the last great winter. It will last for thousands of years and nothing in the north will survive it. As the current age of man comes to an end, a recently orphaned young girl named Mira and her companion wolf cross paths with Erik, now as much myth as he is legend. With the final great winter bearing down...

Twenty years after the storm that decimated the earth, handfuls of scattered survivors in the upper Midwest have begun to regroup into two main communities – the peaceful, self-sufficient farmers of Belle Plaine to the north and the violent, heavily-armed raiders of Mankato to the south. Between them, Erik keeps to a solitary life in the woods, now an almost mythical figure who is best left alone. Erik’s resolve to live apart from his fellow survivors is tested when he comes across an old friend and finds himself drawn into an impending conflict between the two communities. To prevent a...

What happens on the other side of the galaxy stays on the other side of the galaxy. Conner doesn't normally break the rules, but when his best friend urges him to ignore a "No Trespassing" sign, he figures what's the worst that can happen. After all, they're just taking a shortcut across a field on their way to go fishing. But that rusty old sign is there for a reason, and the boys are about to learn that our galaxy is much stranger and far more dangerous than they ever imagined. A war is raging in the farthest regions of space and they have just put themselves right into the middle of it. ...

Wyatt Lonnergan is the best damn recruiter in the business. A skillful observer, his job is to assess people who possess unique skills and talents. His current assignment brings him to the small, isolated town of Little Tree, Montana. Shortly after Wyatt arrives, a debilitating siren shatters windows and renders everyone unconscious while a strange mist drifts through the streets. Upon waking, he and a handful of others discover that they are apparently the only people remaining in town. Almost a thousand people have simply vanished. All of the cars and phones are dead, and they are cut off...

My only thought was that I was about to die. I was going to die tonight, alone, on the muddy shore of this godforsaken lake in the middle of the woods. Billy Bane awakens every night in a cold sweat, his dreams plagued by terrifying visions of Dark Lake. It’s an old, dead lake deep in the woods. Nothing lives in or around it and it has a long history of mysterious disappearances and gruesome deaths. Though everyone tells him he’s never been there, Billy suspects that a terrible secret is being kept from him. Determined to get to the truth behind his nightmares, Billy talks his two best ...

Thirteen years ago, the notorious serial killer known as Father Murder was executed for 21 brutal slayings in three states. Since then, Sera has lived in self-imposed social exile under an assumed name. The worst thing she can imagine is for someone to discover who her infamous father was. But when a video of her saving someone's life goes viral, it's not the possibility of unwanted attention that causes her concern. It's the man in the background, the man who looks exactly like her father. The video does more than cause Sera to question whether her father was really executed or not. It ...

Early in the morning at a remote camp for juvenile offenders, fifteen-year-old Erik bears witness to the sudden end of civilization. It comes not in the form of war or disease, but as a devastating cosmic storm that wipes out nearly all life on Earth in a single night and cloaks the world in a sunless gray haze. Five hundred miles from home, Erik begins his journey through the ruins of civilization in the hope that his young sister may also have survived. But it’s a dangerous new world now, a world of burning cities, desperate survivors, armed cults, and even the temptation of sanctuary. ...

“Come on, Billy Bane. Let’s see how good you really are.” – Ahriman The time has come for Billy Bane to finally meet his singular destiny and confront Ahriman, the primordial god of darkness and chaos. Ahriman destroys entire worlds so they can rise again stronger than before, and he has decided our world is next. Billy and his two best friends are the only ones standing in his way. Drawing on the unique abilities of all their ancient bloodlines, Billy comes up with a daring plan to beat Ahriman at his own game. But first, he must call in a couple of favors. With the help of his ...

“You gave it a good try, Billy Bane, but I’m afraid you lose.” -- Rudy After freeing the eternals from their cursed existence as banshees, Billy Bane wants nothing more than to go home and get some sleep. But something isn’t quite right in his little hometown. The streets are eerily empty, there’s a magic store full of murderous puppets where there shouldn’t be one, and he’s being stalked by two dead girls and a sinister car that keeps trying to kill him. Trapped in a world where his own memories are used against him and his most terrifying dreams come to life, Billy struggles...

“If you challenge a god and fail, you will die.” -- Enyra Billy Bane is tired of his singular destiny putting his two best friends in danger, so when a banshee comes to town and suspicious deaths soon follow, he decides to handle this problem on his own. It's a decision that nearly costs him his life because this banshee isn’t just wailing for the dead. She’s here for him. Admitting that this might be a bigger problem than even he and his friends can handle, Billy calls in the warrior monks from the Order of Enoch. But things quickly go from bad to worse and Billy and his friends ...

“This will be difficult and most likely very dangerous. I sincerely hope all of you survive it.” – Abigale Bancroft After a fight with two nightmarish creatures in a dark alley, Billy learns that his best friend has been infected by the viral DNA of one of the creatures. If his friend doesn’t get help soon, he will become a monster himself. The only cure lies with an ancient order of warrior monks half a world away. But finding a cure for his friend is only the beginning of Billy’s problems. A war is brewing between these creatures from the darkest depths of the earth and the ...

This is the house that Jack built; this is the house where no one gets out alive. Wanting to see a ghost, the little sister of Billy Bane’s best friend wanders into an infamous murder house. But this is more than just another hundred-year-old mansion with a few ghost stories about it. This house was built by a sinister doctor obsessed with the occult and who tortured and murdered over a hundred people in his insane quest for the human soul. Billy doesn’t believe in ghosts, so he has no problem going into the house to look for his friend’s sister. But ghosts believe in him – they ...