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In the ruins of civilization, humanity is the rarest resource left. When the lights died—so did the illusion of safety. The world as they knew it crumbled, and humanity followed right behind it. After a devastating CME wipes out the modern world, Portland becomes a graveyard of smoke, starvation, and brutality. The streets belong to gangs. The weak disappear overnight, and threats lurk in every alley. A place where every scavenging run could be their last, and every act of mercy carries consequences.

The Reckoning had passed, but the loss of life and destruction left in its wake defied imagination. Not in JT Clarke's wildest dreams could he have foreseen the speed at which society consumed itself. The little village of Somerset, once a quaint rural community, lay in utter ruins, uninhabitable after the final thread of morality wore thin and snapped.

Most entrepreneurs dream of building one unicorn. Elon Musk has built six: PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and xAI. His companies don’t just reach massive valuations—they revolutionize entire industries and reshape the future. The Musk Way unveils the four core principles behind that success. Based on exclusive interviews with former SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and PayPal employees—and drawn from 9,200 research notes—Alejandro Sahuquillo, a former entrepreneur with more than 10 million views on his YouTube channels, distills Musk’s method into a clear, actionable system.

The Earth slipped—a shift barely more than a degree on paper, but enough to fracture fault lines, drown cities, and rip the jet stream into shreds. The skies burned with auroras. Rivers swelled and reversed course, turning tall hills into islands. Satellites went silent. And within days, society collapsed.

After being launched from their container ships in the Gulf of Mexico, the three specially calibrated nuclear warheads carried by Shahab-3 ICBM’s detonated in space at 10:58 AM, directly over Utah, Kansas and West Virginia. For a fraction of a millisecond, the late morning October sky brightened, the event over with so quickly it was basically imperceptible from the ground.

Normalcy ceased to exist in the United States the instant the Iranian EMP warheads detonated, relieving America of its abundant luxuries and conveniences. The event pushed the entire country backward in a millisecond. Backward in time to the mid-1800s—to a lifestyle that preceded the telephone and, for most, even the use of a simple lightbulb.

America suffered blow after blow of internal strife, work stoppages, police shootings, riots, and immobilizing national discord. The riches of the country attracted international villains who eyed the country like a wealthy home with an open front door. Hit with a massive EMP strike, the West Coast from the Pacific to the Mississippi was left a wasteland of gangs, violence, and burning homes.

She never belonged to the pack—until fate led her to him. Cybersecurity expert Hayil Rufus Rose has spent her life hiding one impossible truth: she’s a werewolf who has never shifted, a failure by her pack’s rules and a woman on the brink of exile. A solo hike in Glacier National Park is meant to clear her head—but instead, a chance meeting with Will Penn, a guarded federal agent with powerful instincts and secrets of his own, changes everything.

Chief of Tribal Police Jacob Graywolf serves and protects his community on the reservation. When an epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women hits home, he's relieved the FBI gets involved. But something about the woman agent has him running scared. FBI Special Agent Zena Adalwolf is certain Jacob is her soul mate. Their connection at first sight is immediate and urgent. After more Native American women are killed, Zena and Jacob suspect they have a serial killer on their hands.

The world has changed. It wasn’t the Big Bang, EMP, or comet strike so many had planned for. It was worse because it was so avoidable. After the fighting and chaos and when the political machinations failed, nothing remained but the people. What sprang up resembled the Old West of the 1800s. Law existed in small towns as much as could be prosecuted by a sheriff, a few deputies, a local judge and the townspeople. Outside the towns, travelers operated at their own risk, and the bandits and plunderers knew it. The Girl had been out of the country when things crashed.

With high hopes, three hopeful young ladies enjoy the hot summer day with a tour at Harvard University, their sights set on changing the world and plans for the future. Little did they know, the sun had other plans. When a solar superstorm impacts Earth, producing a Coronal Mass Ejection, with an EMP that fries the power grid. These friends must find their way back to Maine. Dangers test them to their limits, and all hell breaks loose when one has reached the breaking point.

April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. Two trains. One treasure. And a question worth millions. As the US Civil War was drawing to a close, and Grant was about to take Richmond, two trains left the city in the dark of night. One carried Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet. The other carried the Confederate Treasury guarded by a young midshipman from the CSA Navy. A few weeks later, Davis was captured by Federal troops near Irwinville, Georgia, and the treasure...was gone. People have been speculating on what happened to the Confederate treasure for decades.

Fourteen years ago, deep in the steamy backwoods of Georgia, a 12-year-old girl is bound and ritually tortured. The details of the crime are bizarre, and the few citizens of Lucerne who know the shocking truth of the crime keep it secret. Now, a young orphan boy arrives in the sleepy town and in the dark woods something inhuman stirs in the "snake well". An ancient hunger has awakened. Soft voices call out from the dark forest, drifting over the bayou, echoing in the crawl spaces. The townsfolks' darkest nightmares stalk the moonlit streets.

When agronomist Ben Harker discovers a catastrophic collapse in regional pollinator activity, he assumes it’s a data error. Until the bees start dying outside his own lab window. What begins as a scientific mystery quickly becomes a survival nightmare. As crops fail and insect life vanishes across the Midwest, Ben and a small group of rural families uncover the truth: the collapse wasn’t natural. It began with HELIX—a classified bioweapon, developed under the guise of an agricultural fail-safe meant to preserve food production after nuclear war…

The world changed over the past two years. It wasn’t the big bang, EMP, or comet strike so many had planned for. It was worse because it was so avoidable, like a major corporation going bankrupt out of bad decisions and neglect. When the funds dried up and all the political machinations failed, nothing remained but the people. Left to their own devices, what sprang up more resembled the Old West of the 1800s.

The nation has fallen and is divided into two halves. Vince and his cohorts have a problem to deal with - in regards to the professor and the FEMA camps....

Young Luke Pettigrew, a hero at the Battle of Shiloh, awakens in the bedroom of an unfamiliar Tennessee farmhouse - with no immediate memory of what brought him there. The only thing he knows with certainty, is that his life will never be the same. Smith takes listeners on a (historically accurate) wild ride through the end days of the American Civil War with Luke coming-of-age while exploring themes of addiction, love, and self worth. As the Civil War draws to a close, so does Luke's lifetime of searching. Ultimately, he finds redemption in the least likely of places.

After fatally shooting the Confederate sharpshooter who killed his best friend, Zach Harkin's sense of revenge changes to deep remorse when he views the dead man's diary and photo. Haunted, suffering from post-traumatic stress, and unable to serve, he is mustered out of service. With scant information, he begins an epic journey to search for the dead man's family. He is captured, imprisoned, tortured, and thoroughly tested as a human being, and after escaping, he never expects to find love in the war-ravaged South.

Anomaly Defense and shapeshifter Bert Blackfeather doesn't need a boss with no experience. So what if she's beautiful or gives him a jolt when she shakes his hand? He never plans to get seriously involved with another woman - not in this lifetime. Phoebe Wagner, an empath with psychometric abilities and an advocate for the deaf, gets more than she bargained for with Bert. When his niece goes missing from Hotel LaBelle, Bert goes to Montana to help, and Phoebe decides to go with him. Can these two hard-headed people share their darkest secrets in order to work together?

Join your favourite Indie Horror authors for some tales about their adventures navigating the industry. The highs, the lows, and everything in between. Some of them give some tips and advice and others share their funny and embarrassing stories. This is not a "How To" book, but there are many great lessons inside if you are looking to write or boost where you are at the moment.