Apocalyptic Home

In an instant, the world changed. Without power, technology, or the rule of law, can a young man guide his companions to loved ones and safety? Alex Kade is ready for some R&R. Hardworking but carrying his share of regrets, the UCLA film school student tries to keep the peace among his friends during a winter vacation to the rugged Colorado Rockies. But when a startling flash lights up the sky over their remote cabin, the twenty-two-year-old is horrified to realize the country is under attack —and gets his group walking toward town.

Five years after a pneumonic plague killed two-thirds of the world's population, army veteran Marcus Battle is isolated. He's alone with his guns, his food, and the graves of his wife and child. Unaware of the chaos that's befallen everything outside of his central Texas ranch land, Marcus lives a Spartan life. If anyone steps onto his property, he shoots first and never asks questions. But when a woman in distress, chased by marauders, seeks asylum, Marcus has a decision to make.

If society collapsed, could you survive? When Morgan Carter’s car breaks down 250 miles from his home, he figures his weekend plans are ruined. But things are about to get much, much worse: the country’s power grid has collapsed. There is no electricity, no running water, no Internet, and no...

No electricity. No running water. No food. No end in sight. If life as you knew it changed in an instant, would you be prepared? In A. American’s first novel, Going Home, readers were introduced to Morgan Carter, the resourceful, tough-as-nails survivalist who embarks on a treacherous 250-mile...

Book 4 of The Survivalist Series They survived the collapse, but can they survive the aftermath? Morgan Carter has weathered the weeks after the collapse of the nation’s power grid, reuniting with his family and ensuring their safety, but his struggle isn't over yet. Carter must focus on...

Lissa leaves the Denver Refugee Center with her cats fourteen months after the asteroid struck Earth. Survivalist Cam grew up inside xTerra and feels trapped by its walls. Their lives are worlds apart. When Cam defies orders to help a desperate refugee family, his mother, the mayor, is ousted. She disowns him, calling him a traitor. To let her hurtful words settle, Cam leaves on an extended trip.

David Turner survived the first weeks after the EMP. Now the real journey begins. Riding east with June and Whiskey, David crosses the Great Plains through blistering heat, violent storms, and a country growing more dangerous by the day. Every mile brings him closer to home—but also closer to desperate people willing to do anything to survive. In the Carolina mountains, Grace Turner and her sons are no longer simply surviving. They are building a future. Gardens are growing. Security is improving. But the threats around their remote cabin are growing as well, and some dangers cannot be ...

When society ceases to exist, who can you trust? After the collapse of the nation’s power grid, America is under martial law—and safety is an illusion. As violence erupts around him, Morgan Carter faces one of his most difficult decisions yet: whether to stay and defend his home, or move to...

Oubreak - Week 1: Presidents, prime ministers, entire governments disappeared instantly, like a fragile house of cards in a hurricane. Some hid deep underground or holed up in fortified strongholds, but most were swallowed up by the dead, never to be heard from again. Having lost both parents just weeks apart - one to Omega, the other to a brutal beating inflicted by Chinese PLA soldiers - 12-year-old Raven Grayson finds herself in the nation’s new capital, battling loneliness and depression, all while trying to find her place among her fellow transplanted Eden survivors.

China, its military ravaged by Covid and stung by the loss of its only significant ally, Russia, launches four intercontinental, nuclear-tipped missiles from submarines off the coast of North Korea. Detonating high in the atmosphere over North America, the missiles create an electromagnetic pulse that takes down the entire power grid. The US is set back to the eighteenth century. It now lacks any power, transportation, communication, food supplies, water, or electronics.

In the open countryside, the only safe place is behind the barrel of your gun. “Tom Hawke has created a post-apocalyptic world that is harsh, dangerous, and believable, but what keeps me turning the pages isn't just the action—it's the people.” - Amazon Reviewer Braxton Stone's arrival in Idaho signals a reckoning for the Bastard Brigade, the ruthless motorcycle gang that has controlled the region since the grid went down. No longer can they terrorize the town with impunity — if they expose themselves for even a moment, Braxton is ready to strike. However the gang remains firmly ...

Nine-year-old Christopher and his seven-year-old sister Ilaya are riding home to their mother in Eugene when every engine in Oregon dies at once. No radio. No planes. No help coming. Their father walks across a field to find a truck that still runs. He says an hour. He never comes back. By morning the children are alone on a highway that has stopped being a road and started being something else. Then a drifter named Weston finds them, and decides to walk them a hundred and ten miles south to a mother who has no idea if they are alive. What follows is a journey through a valley coming apart ...

David Turner has crossed a broken America on horseback. From the mountains of Washington to the banks of the Mississippi, every mile has tested his resolve, his horses, and his determination to get home to the family he left behind. But the hardest miles are still ahead. As summer turns toward fall, David pushes east through unfamiliar country, desperate to reach the Carolina mountains where Grace and their three sons wait and wonder if he is still alive. Along the way, he will face dangerous crossings, desperate strangers, and the growing realization that the world he left may never return...

As the only child in an upper-middle class family, Rowan has had it easy. Doted on by a mother who never wanted anything but a child to love, she's never wanted for anything. Kiaya’s life, however, has been anything but easy. Parents who didn’t want her, followed by being torn away from her only sibling by the foster care system, she knows what it means to have to work hard for the things she wants. When a deadly virus sweeps the country, Rowan and Kiaya are away at college and far from everything they love.

David Turner was supposed to be home in two days. A pilot, husband, and father of three, David is finishing a routine business trip in Washington when the world suddenly goes dark. Aircraft fall from the sky. Vehicles die where they sit. Communications vanish. Stranded more than a thousand miles from home with only the gear in his survival bag, David begins an impossible journey across a country that no longer functions. Back in the Carolinas, his wife Grace is fighting her own battle to protect their sons and prepare for a future no one saw coming. When David discovers an abandoned ...

Nuclear missiles have exploded over the West Coast, East Coast, and the Gulf of Mexico. The resulting EMP has knocked out power to 80 percent of the US. Was it North Korea, Iran, or maybe China? The enemy is uncertain. American military is still intact. The civilian infrastructure that it depends on vanished in an instant. The government is scrambling to secure the nation and prevent the next attack, but society is disintegrating.

THE LONG RIDE HOME: THE FIRST WINTER David made it home. Now he has to make sure his family survives what comes next. The EMP changed everything. The power is gone. Supply chains are dead. Stores have been picked clean, and the world beyond the mountains grows more dangerous by the day. With winter closing in, David and his family turn their attention to the basics that will decide who sees spring: food, firewood, shelter, medicine, and the hard work of preparing for months when nothing can be taken for granted. But they aren't alone anymore. New survivors are finding their way into the ...

Long Road Home: A Post-Apocalyptic Next-World Series Book 3: Turning Point Alex Kade and Shanan Sullivan, along with their college friends, have integrated into the goings-on of the local Colorado mountain town. The problem is, it's just not home. With Trey gone, Beth is stuck with Tex, who wants nothing more than to play house and eliminate anyone that gets in his way. She slowly builds trust with her captor, praying for the day she can run free.

Winter is finally losing its grip on the Hollow. David made it home. His family survived the cold. But surviving the winter was only the beginning. As the snow begins to melt, a different challenge emerges. Food must be grown. Tools that haven't moved in decades must work again. Livestock must be protected, clothing repaired, and supplies stretched farther than anyone thought possible. In a world without electricity, fuel, or the conveniences they once took for granted, nearly everything has to be relearned. But the Hollow is no longer alone. Other survivors are beginning to emerge. Some ...

A college student in Knoxville. An Irish couple on their dream vacation in Orlando. A bank robber in an Atlanta prison...what do they all have in common? They are survivors of vPx073, the most deadly virus ever to be unleashed on the planet. One that has brought civilization to a standstill.