Military Disasters

Across the world, the United States recalls troops to combat civil unrest after the biggest economic meltdown in history. Marine Sergeant Ronaldo Salvatore’s platoon comes home to a powder keg that could ignite a civil war. While some see the coming collapse as the end, others see opportunity. Fleeing Naples after rival crime lords decimated his family, Don Antonio Moretti settles in Los Angeles to rebuild his criminal empire. But he is far from alone in his ambitions.

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived. On February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, were in the same horrifying predicament. Built with “dirty steel,” and not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving the dozens of men on board utterly at the Atlantic’s mercy.

Max Kline thought he had retired from the battlefield, but when negotiating the sale of his friend's tech company, he's thrust back into the line of fire. Literally. The company's powerful new software has the potential to upend the global economy, or worse, if it falls into the wrong hands—and it's missing. Now Max must recover the code, but he is not the only one searching. A mysterious fanatical group has their own motivations, and they're playing for keeps. Whatever the risk, he knows that he can’t let them win.

A former FBI K9 handler, his childhood best friend who’s now a state senator, and a series of bombs threatening to tear the state capital apart. Amanda Winslow aspires to change the world through politics. She spent the past sixteen years working her way up to the position of state senator, no easy task for a low-income, born and bred, Texan girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Encouraging her along the way is her best friend, Jesse Dixon, who spent years traveling all over the country, first with the FBI, and then with the elite Disaster City Search and Rescue team, combating domestic...

Leo Ferrel was the terror of the school system in Kooskia, Idaho. Leo was the product of a single parent who spent more time beating on her son than raising him. When Leo’s mother decides that she has an opportunity for a better life, she abandons her son at age 14. Leo is left with an old pickup truck and just enough money to survive while trying to find a better home than the old rusted trailer that was the only home he had ever known. Leo decides to make one of the caves on his property livable in order to escape the dilapidated trailer and try to build a better life. Along the way, ...

Grayson Mack knew what he was getting into when he was flown in by chopper to the island to search for people with his K-9 dog, Biscuit. The devastation was intense, the destruction horrifying, and now he was face to face with the one person he never expected to see: his ex-girlfriend, Tina. Tina Rogers never wanted to see Grayson again – especially now. This trip was the opportunity of a lifetime. It gave her a chance to each in paradise, a change of scenery, and time to heal her wounded heart. If her rescuer was the man that broke her heart and soul — well, he could just rescue her ...

Molly Fuentes has had an adventurous life, grabbing every chance at freedom she can. She spends all her free time rock climbing with no emotional entanglements to hold her back. One small mistake, however, and her whole world, both past and present, comes crashing down around her as she stares into the eyes of her rescuer, Caleb Jellison. Caleb never got over his first love – nor being abandoned at the altar. When he discovers that the woman hanging over the precipice is his beloved Molly, her safety and future are quite literally in his hands. Control and fear of commitment were the ...

A new fire rescue officer needing to prove his place on the team, a model struggling to make a career, and a fire that brings the high school loner back into the life of his secret crush. Clark Voclain is a a skilled fire rescue officer and after finishing training at the Disaster City Search and Rescue Academy, he and his K9 partner are offered a permanent position. When they're assigned to help with a structure fire at the largest mall in all of Texas, he's surprised to find out that his high school crush is reported missing in the fire. Roselyn Lewis just got the biggest modeling gig of ...

America is under attack! Bug Out! is the story of Frank and Jane, on the run from California in their Motorhome. In Bug Out! Part 7, Frank, Jane, and the group had to flee from Colorado, barely getting out alive. Bug Out! Part 8 follows our group as they take over an abandoned RV Park in Kansas. Kansas is sealed off, but our friends get through. It's safe, but will that last? Why was the RV Park abandoned? What blood-curdling secrets will be found there? More new characters appear. They are dangerous, but to whom? If the authorities and the press find out about the dark secrets of the RV ...

An ex-Navy Seal used to being alone, a plus-sized single mom struggling to juggle her responsibilities, and a hurricane that brings them together. Mason Fredericks knows everything there is about water. It’s what makes him the perfect instructor for water rescue at the Disaster City Search and Rescue Academy. Any chance he gets, he spends it in the water. So, when he finally gets a weekend off, he heads to the nearest lake. While fishing, he sees a boy struggling in the water, and he and his K9 partner, Dover, dives in to save him. When he returns the boy to his waiting mother, he can’t...

Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents—Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima—Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power, both for military and peaceful purposes, while offering a vivid account of how individuals and governments make decisions under extraordinary circumstances.

Evasive maneuvers – break hard right! Ryan ‘Reaper’ Merrick had a good reason to jump at the offer of a fake relationship as the beautiful stranger suggested. This would be an easy way to keep a crazy matchmaker off his back. All of his friends were happily married, so they assumed he should be. Fine. Whatever. Besides, being married for thirty days was nothing, wasn’t it? Caution! Grab the handles and punch out! Sophie Lane inherited the bed-and-breakfast, but only if she was married. She had to have a husband by Friday, or the family estate would be liquidated. The idea of losing ...

America is under attack! Bug Out! is the story of Frank and Jane, on the run from California in their Motorhome. In Bug Out! Part 8, Frank, Jane, and the group make a terrifying discovery in their Kansas RV Park. Bug Out! Part 9 follows our group as they cope with the new danger they've found at the RV Park, while keeping the enemy at bay. The group partners with a dangerous trio. These new friends can help them defeat the dark forces coming at them, but at what cost? Kansas is still safe, but the enemy is on the move, taking over sections of Denver. The shadowy owner of their RV Park has ...

Their troubled pasts behind them, these powerful businessmen don’t need quirky women with complications. CEOs and secretaries, soldiers and rock stars. These four books bring you passion and tension, before delivering guaranteed happy ever afters! MASON She's a disowned heiress. He's an orphaned billionaire. When their jet crashes in the jungle, will surviving certain death lead to love? CEO, Mason Alexander shouldn't look at his cute secretary that way... but alone, lost in the jungle, with only each other to depend on, will survival lead to love? DAMON She’s an unemployed chef. He’s...

At the beginning of 1940, Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945, Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat. Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a super power and had left her people to cope with the endless shame of the Holocaust. Despite Hitler's grand ambitions and the successful early stages of the Third Reich's advances into Europe, Frank McDonough convincingly argues that Germany was only ever a middle-ranking power and never truly stood a chance against the combined forces of the Allies.

It takes a special type of person to serve in a nation’s navy, especially on long voyages that separate men and women from their loved ones, and no service is both loved and hated as that aboard submarines, for very few people ever serve on them on a whim. For one thing, the psychological impact of being trapped for long periods underwater in tight, cramped quarters is more than many people can stand.

One pulse… and civilization crumbles. A catastrophic EMP attack plunges the world into darkness, igniting a global nuclear war that wipes out 90% of humanity. With law and order collapsing, survivors must fight not only for food and shelter—but for their lives. Colonel Thomas Bradley, a brilliant electronic warfare expert, leads a desperate group of survivors deep into the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. Inside the massive underground facility, they battle against dwindling resources, radioactive fallout, and relentless attacks from militant factions determined to take what ...

America is under attack! Bug Out! is the story of Frank and Jane, on the run from California in their Motor Home. In Bug Out! Part 9, Our friends take the fight to the enemy, while preparing to defend themselves against the evil former owners of the Kansas RV Park. Bug Out! Part 10 follows our group as they zero in on the enemy headquarters, while keeping darker enemies at bay. A former friend is now working with an evil serial killer. They stage a murder spree across three states as they plan for their ultimate attack in Kansas. The enemy is trying to cope with the new technology that ...

An ex-Army ranger needing a change, a local reporter writing a story on the academy, and a natural disaster that they both get trapped in. Marco Fernandez just finished up his last deployment with the Army. When his best friend offers him a job, he jumps at the opportunity to leave the stress of military life behind him and focus on training the next generation. That’s why he’s irritated when a smart and spunky reporter comes charging into his life, wanting to know way more about his past then he’s prepared to share. Susan Chandler knows that her feature on the elite search and rescue...

Following the Weavers Enclave Grand Exchange, Feng Yu and his party had decided to venture to the mysterious and renowned Five Element Mirage Zone in hopes of quickly improving their strength to the next level. Of course, their fame from their endeavors had garnered the interest of a few powerful forces and rogue assassin groups, each moving with their own intentions. With their overwhelming power, you would think their quest to be a simple one, but little did they know, the secret of the special zone would lead to an unexpected change and the start of a disaster.