Winter Survival Stories

Lily, Simon, and Michael are still trapped in their Minecraft game, but with new friends and a better understanding of their arch enemy, Mr. Anarchy, they're getting closer to finding a way home. But before they can fight the evil griefer and escape the game, the friends need to replenish their resources - and that means trekking deeper into the Overworld. When their mining party is attacked and hostile mobs reveal surprising new powers, it looks like the end for the trio - and for all their friends in town.

The three friends trapped in their Minecraft game have never been closer to escaping the Overworld, and they can't wait to return home after being trapped on the server for so long. But then a vicious horde of creepers attacks, delaying their escape. Soon the gang learns that there's a new villain behind the attack: a griefer so twisted that he'd rather stay trapped in the Overworld than live a mundane life in the real world - and he has no qualms about keeping every other player trapped on the server with him.

Simon, Michael, and Lily are playing on a multiplayer server when a strange lightning storm hits their town. In the middle of an intense game, a bolt of lightning strikes, sucking the three friends into the game! They discover that they've been transformed into their Minecraft characters. They try to escape, but they are trapped in the Overworld.

Peace has been restored to the Overworld after an epic griefer battle. Lily, Simon, and Michael are glad to have a break from fighting, and even from their attempts to escape the game and return to their normal lives. But then two new players are zapped onto the server, and no one's sure who's responsible for trapping them. With Mr. Anarchy and the other griefers in prison, anyone could be a suspect, and tempers flare as the townspeople's suspicions turn inward.

A frozen lake, a shattered shelter, and a predator that doesn’t leave witnesses. Search and Rescue specialist Nora Friedman is used to finding the lost in the unforgiving north woods, but nothing prepared her for the scene at Widow Lake. The official reports call it an animal attack. Nora sees the truth in the eighteen-inch bipedal tracks and the structural devastation of the ice shack. A pack of massive, upright canines—Dogmen—has claimed the territory, and they possess a terrifying intelligence that defies nature. This is no longer a recovery mission; it is a siege. Trapped by a ...

They thought they were hunting an animal. They were wrong. When structural expert Thatcher Rook arrives at Mount Rushmore to assess stress fractures in the granite, he uncovers a hidden subterranean chamber—and a heavily armed poaching team guarding a terrifying secret. They have captured a juvenile Sasquatch, and its massive, unstoppable parent has come to collect. As a brutal winter storm seals off the monument, Thatcher is trapped in a deadly three-way war on the sheer cliff faces. Caught between ruthless mercenaries and a grieving, nine-foot apex predator with nothing to lose, it ...

For twenty years, Nathan Hale has lived in self-imposed exile, trading the complications of the human world for the brutal simplicity of a high-altitude cabin. He has hardened his heart against his past, believing that absolute isolation is the only way to survive. But on the night of a historic blizzard, the silence of the wilderness is broken. As the snow buries the peak, Nathan is stalked by three entities that defy the laws of nature. From the ancient, skeletal warnings of a Stag-Man to the grounding, earthen presence of a massive Sasquatch, the forest has come to judge him. But as ...

In a world hollowed out by sickness, two survivors learn that the hardest thing to trust is the chance at something real. Cara O’Keefe has spent her whole life hidden deep in the woods, taught to rely on no one but herself. After the world falls, solitude becomes her armor—until three strangers stumble into her territory and shift the life she’s always known. Jay Bennett never expected to want anything again. Scarred by loss and the weight of what he couldn’t save, he’s resigned himself to simply surviving. But Cara—fierce, capable, and unexpectedly gentle—awakens a longing he...

After trapping Mr. Anarchy, the evil master griefer who's been tormenting them, Lily, Simon, and Michael can finally concentrate on trying to escape the Overworld and getting to know their new friends on the server. So when one of their friends invites them along on a treasure hunt, they couldn't be more thrilled! But when the gang's absence from Lisimi Village gives Mr. Anarchy a chance to escape, their hunt for treasure is cut short and Lily, Simon, and Michael must make a hard decision.

The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positions, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator. "A gripping saga about raw courage and...

From Lisa Ann Verge, RITA-nominated author of romantic, adventurous, historical novels "An absorbing, exciting romantic adventure!" --RT Book Reviews "Lisa Ann Verge breathes fresh life into the romance genre." -- Affaire de Coeur Struggling to survive on the streets of Paris, Genevieve agrees to a dangerous masquerade: She switches places with a King’s Girl, a young noblewoman about to be shipped to the colonies. It’s a risky venture with a high price—once overseas, Genny must marry a stranger....

It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains...

It’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this trilogy. It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must retrace their journey into Iowa to find and bring back Alex’s parents to the tenuous safety of Illinois.

The cyberattack hit the grid in January. In Maine. At eighteen below. The cold gave the town six hours to get serious — and six weeks to get it right. No explosion, no invasion — just a line of code, a dead grid, and the oldest enemy in the north swinging its full weight at a small town: winter. Pipes freeze in hours. Houses die in days. And the town of Lindale discovers that survival at eighteen below isn't about bunkers or bullets. It's about woodpiles and chimney counts, about who checks on whom, about a list on a wall where every household's smoke gets counted every single morning ...

Thirteen Days of Winter** is an emotional **ice hockey survival romance** about love, sacrifice, loss, and the fight to stay alive when everything familiar disappears beneath the snow. Professional hockey star **Ryan Cole** is traveling with his girlfriend **Emily Carter**, their loyal dog **Koda**, teammates, staff, and family members when a violent winter storm sends their plane crashing into a remote frozen wilderness. Surrounded by mountains, deep snow, brutal cold, and no sign of immediate rescue, only seven people and Koda survive the initial crash. What begins as a desperate wait for...

An atmospheric coming-of-age story about a young man's transformative year on his family’s struggling Icelandic cattle farm as he falls in love, discovers the purpose he’s been missing, and seeks to connect with his stoic father, who remains haunted by a tragic past. Growing up on his...

She ran west to escape her past. He came to judge her home. Neither expected to find redemption. Eliza Hale is the midwife who doesn’t belong. Shadowed by a scandal that nearly broke her and a tragedy she cannot forget, she serves at the rugged edge of the Texas frontier—saving lives while believing herself unworthy of the very grace she offers others. To the town, she is a lifeline. To herself, she is a woman living on borrowed time. Circuit rider Gabriel Thorne arrives in Promise Creek with a mandate: assess the community, restore order, and report what must be corrected. He is a man ...

Can a fragile thread of faith survive the unrelenting realities of the wild frontier? For Elspeth Miller, the grueling wagon journey from the busy, predictable streets of Philadelphia to the untamed expanse of the Shenandoah Valley was supposed to be a fresh start—a promised land of opportunity, milk, and honey. But the breathtaking vistas of their new Virginia home mask a relentless wilderness that demands conquest. There are no clearings, no neighboring chimneys, and no paths. Just ancient, formidable trees and a profound, oppressive silence that tests human endurance from the very ...

She wants no husband. He wants no wife. Jailed for crimes unbecoming a lady, Marie yearns for liberty even as she refuses the one choice that will set her free: An arranged marriage with a frontier stranger. Then a brawny ex-soldier offers a more dangerous proposal. Spend one winter as his wife in name only, and come spring he will set her free…

A festive town. A deadly outbreak. A night where Christmas turns into terror. Perfect for fans of Snowball, Krampus, 28 Days Later, and winter survival horror. North Hearth’s annual Winterfest is supposed to be magical—twinkling lights, warm cocoa, carols drifting through snowy streets. EMT Noelle Fox has worked the festival for years and nothing ever truly goes wrong. Until a tourist collapses beneath the towering Christmas tree… breath crystallizing, lips turning blue, pulse slowing to nothing. Hours later, all hell breaks loose. A contaminated holiday drink unleashes a mutated ...