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.

INTRODUCING THREE FAST-PACED, HEART-POUNDING, ROMANTIC SUSPENSE STORIES FEATURING K9 HANDLERS SEARCHING FOR LOVE. Step into the world of Disaster City Search and Rescue, where officers, firefighters, military, and medics, train and work alongside each other with the dogs they love, to do the most dangerous job of all — help lost and injured victims find their way home. Perfect for fans of Lynn Shannon, Christy Barritt and Laura Scott. What readers are saying about the series: “I felt drawn in the story from the beginning to the end.” -BookAddict “The story has plenty of mystery, ...

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, ...

This audiobook tells the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the United States' reaction to the event.

A mega-earthquake is coming. And it’s not natural. Beneath Los Angeles, something is moving. When mutilated bodies start appearing in the city’s subway tunnels, Detective Alana Williams is assigned a case that makes no sense— Until the ground begins to shake. Seismologist Dr. Michael Trent is tracking a series of impossible tremors. Not random. Not geological. Engineered. Something ancient is awake beneath California. Something intelligent. And it’s building toward a catastrophic event powerful enough to destroy the entire West Coast. As the tremors escalate, the government prepares...

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...

As the Big Island of Hawai'i faces an eruption of unprecedented intensity, the U.S. military contends with the consequences of a long-held doomsday secret. The master of the techno-blockbuster joins forces with the master of the modern thriller. Eruption is the passion project Michael Crichton...

A joyful Noel… Levi Edwards grumpily donned the Santa suit, going undercover to take down the notorious drug lord that the department had been chasing for almost two years. This was all a perfect setup, a chance to slip in unnoticed, infiltrate the upper echelon, with no one asking questions. After all, who would ever suspect that the jolly ol’ elf was leading the covert sting operation? And one angry elf… Hope Espinoza couldn’t believe she was being coerced into being an elf at the corporate Christmas party. The obnoxious costume was over the top and not exactly how she wanted to ...

In the quaint fishing town of Bluefin Cove, Maine, Jackie Jette leads a quiet life until the discovery of a wrecked Boeing 707 plunges her into a mystery spanning decades. The plane, which vanished in 1971, carried her father—a government agent and secret time traveler working under the guise of a pilot for Americonic International Airlines. When the enigmatic Agent Taylor arrives, revealing the government's hidden interest in her father's disappearance, Jackie learns she may have inherited his extraordinary gift for time travel. With her sister Candice joining the quest, Jackie embarks ...

“Hugh’s imaginative worlds and tales within them never fail to entertain!” —Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations...

A handler trusts her dog. A mountain holds them captive. A bond that will be tested by fire and ice. Maya Ruiz and her K-9 partner, Echo, are a legendary search-and-rescue team, their bond forged in the unforgiving peaks of the high Rockies. For Maya, a former army medic haunted by the losses she couldn’t prevent, the work is more than a job—it’s a reason to live. Echo is more than a dog; she’s the partner who rescued her handler first. But their well-honed skills are put to the ultimate test when a "Code One" alert shatters a perfect winter morning. A massive avalanche has ...

Finn and Sawyer Westin, and their family and friends, survived the flooding after the global disaster and successfully defended their island refuge. The island was secure, but the world outside was not, and the needs of the innocent pulled them into danger. The foreign nation that caused the disaster has invaded American soil and is spreading suffering in their wake. As the Westin enclave adds rescued survivors, they encounter others fighting back, including military resistance forces who are badly outgunned. The island group possesses critical resources and skills that put them at the ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

They had no rescue coming. No second chances. No margin for error. Poon Lim watched his ship go down in the South Atlantic with 54 men aboard. He was alone on a wooden raft for 133 days. Juliane Koepcke fell 10,000 feet from a disintegrating aircraft into the Amazon jungle — the sole survivor of 93 people aboard. José Salvador Alvarenga drifted 6,700 miles across the Pacific in an open fishing boat for 438 days. Beck Weathers was left for dead twice on the slopes of Everest and walked himself back to camp anyway. These are not stories of luck. They are stories of specific decisions, ...

So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers. From deep ocean caves on the Oregon coast to the panicked and chaotic streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, here are their stunningly heroic stories.

Out past the last mapped jump gate, the universe starts sending distress calls, and someone has to decide which ones to answer. Captain Zara Keene and the crew of the UNSS Nostromo have finally crossed beyond known space, hunting the mysterious “Horizon” signal that once pulled a dying world back from the brink. What they find at the edge of the map is not a simple beacon, but a presence already entangled with far more than their mission orders admit. Under the watchful eye of political liaison Evren Hale, Zara is pushed to turn the Nostromo into the sharp end of someone else’s policy...

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 ...