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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 ...

Jodi views himself as the upper echelon of Black men. Smart, successful, educated, and incredibly wealthy. He's got cars, clothes, and women, but that's where his problems begin. While he's supposed to be faithful to his longtime girlfriend, Sabrina, he figures what she doesn't know won't hurt her.

We've won a multi-million-pound house in the Cotswolds. It's a dream come true. But the nightmare is just beginning. The threats start immediately. The day we move in, the woman next door comes over, with a bottle of red wine. Then I get a message congratulating me... and saying they know about what happened sixteen years ago. The mistake that ruined everything. And things are about to get even worse.

Touré Wallace and Niomi Spencer were close friends at Finley College, the prestigious HBCU they attended. The attraction that simmered between them every semester was a question they never got to ask or answer before soaring ambitions launched them to opposite corners of the world. Both chased their dreams of grit and glamor as high-profile journalists. They got it all...except a shot at being more than friends. Years later, Touré is an award-winning investigative journalist and Niomi is America's most popular morning-show host, but they both feel like something’s missing.

With her aunt and cousin gone, Hazel Foster becomes the sole guardian of her cousin's seven-year-old son and heads west with him to claim his inheritance. When a guarded widower across the creek begins finding reasons to help them, will Hazel dare trust her heart to this brooding man? Widowed rancher Will Blackwood has spent two years burying his grief in hard work and raising his young daughter alone. He has no intention of opening his heart again, until his daughter falls dangerously ill and he is forced to trust the healer living nearby. As long days of care draw them closer, could she ...

Ryan Davis has lived in hell for the last fifteen years. Kidnapped at age eight, then beaten, broken, and forced into silence, Rye managed to exist, to survive. When a chance phone call gives him an opportunity to escape, he takes it. But escape doesn’t mean safety, and freedom doesn’t mean happiness. And even if he can manage to find home, the pieces of what used to be may never fit back together.

The emotional and touching conclusion to the Baxter family series! The Baxters make plans to come together for a summer lakeside reunion, a celebration like they haven’t had in years. But before the big day, the unthinkable happens. As the Baxter family rallies together, memories come to light...

When Mona the Mouse stumbles across the wondrous world of the Heartwood Hotel in the middle of a storm, she desperately hopes they'll let her stay. As it turns out, Mona is precisely the maid they need at the grandest hotel in Fernwood Forest, where animals come from far and wide for safety, luxury, and comfort. But the Heartwood Hotel is not all acorn souffles and soft moss-lined beds. Danger lurks, and as it approaches, Mona finds that this hotel is more than a warm place to spend the night. It might also be a home.

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...

I’m Caleb “C-Bomb” Baumgarten, the bad boy drummer of Red Card Riot. After tragedy strikes, I get the bright idea to hire my daughter’s remaining lifeline, her “Auntie Aubbey,” as my live-in nanny in her small town. I’m determined not to give in to my white-hot attraction to Aubrey, since I need her to certify my sobriety and testify on my behalf at an upcoming custody hearing. But you know what they say about best laid plans, right? Yeah. My bad.

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 FBI analyst Kate Valentine hunts an elusive mastermind who leaves a cryptic trail based on the Ten Commandments, she soon realizes he may just be targeting her. When sacred texts turn sinister, each burning judgment comes with an encoded challenge meant for Kate's eyes alone—hinting at her secret past. And letting her know, in this high stakes game of cat and mouse, of prey and predator, that she may just be next....

The first novel in Jan Karon’s bestselling and beloved Mitford series--now available in a new 20th Anniversary Edition, including an introductory letter by the author It's easy to feel at home in Mitford, North Carolina. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and...

The Hollow has survived the first year. Now it has to become something worth keeping. With spring behind them and the growing season underway, David and Grace are finally seeing the results of everything their family and neighbors fought to build. Fields are producing, the spring is flowing, and the communities around them are beginning to find ways to work together. But survival brings new problems. Medicine is running short. Good seed is worth more than money ever was. Roads are failing, supplies are scattered across a world that no longer has trucks or stores to deliver them, and people ...

Zero is just one of 20,000 people aboard a spaceship bound for a new planet set to be colonized. The journey is over a century long but luckily, everyone is in stasis, so they’ll be safe and sound asleep during the trip. Everyone that is, except for Zero, whose pod has malfunctioned, waking him up a hundred years early. His initial excitement in roaming the ship alone quickly turns to a heart-stopping interstellar adventure when a family of space pirates show up, trying to hijack the ship and take the colonizers hostage.

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 ...

Many predators hide in the shadows, but Alessa's sat at the family table. The beginning of this story is based on real events from Paige's life. At sixteen, after the death of her only friend, Alessa finds herself isolated at home with her uncle. Unable to live there, she runs away. Alone on the streets of North Philadelphia, she encounters more people who hurt her. About to hit rock bottom, Alessa breaks free from her new tormentors and finds refuge in a shelter for homeless and abused women.

When Clara Whitfield receives the devastating news of her estranged brother's death in the Wyoming Territory, she leaves her quiet life in Chicago to claim the homestead he left behind. But the land holds more than memories: among them, a silent six-year-old boy and a guarded neighbor whose presence unsettles her more than she cares to admit. Elijah Stone never trusted the sister of the man he once called brother. Certain she’s come only to take what isn’t hers, he’s unprepared for Clara’s fierce determination to work the land, and for the tenderness she shows the child he’s taken...

A Place Called Home Series: The Complete Collection Four women. Four towns. Four stories of love that found them when they stopped running from it. Some places do more than shelter you. They see you. They ask the questions you've been avoiding. They put the exact right person in your path at the exact wrong — and perfect — time. That's what happens in the towns of this series. And it's what happens to four women who arrive somewhere new, certain they know what they need, with no idea what's actually waiting for them. A Place to Begin Again: Cassie Monroe thought she had it all figured ...

Shortly after 9.30 in the morning, a young man walks into Surf City, Bondi’s newest shopping complex. He’s wearing a dark grey hoodie - and a bomb around his neck. Just a few minutes later, he is locked in a shop on the upper floor. And trapped with him are four innocent bystanders. For police chaplain Paul Doherty, called to the scene by Senior Sergeant Boehm, it’s a story that will end as tragically as it began. For this is clearly no ordinary siege. The boy, known as Ali Khan, seems as frightened as his hostages and has yet to utter a single word.