Apocalyptic Survival Fiction

The EMP has officially crippled the nation and her infrastructure sits in ruin. Can a burned-out DEA agent, a Guatemalan-born cartel daughter, and an estranged brother find their way back to their families, or will they succumb to the perils of a nation in steep decline? The Complete Age of Embers is a no-holds-barred post-apocalyptic adventure series chronicling a nationwide descent into a powerless world.

A cataclysmic earthquake shatters the Cascadia Subduction Zone, triggering massive tremors, 100-foot tsunamis, and the collapse of entire cities. The destruction spirals across the West Coast and beyond, ripping open the San Andreas fault and other hidden fractures in the Earth's crust. Civilization unravels, leaving the once-thriving West Coast in ruins. But the true nightmare is just beginning. In Oregon, the ground refuses to settle. New and terrifying threats emerge as the survivors struggle to make sense of a world torn apart. Among them are Reed Walker, a battle-hardened EMT from ...

After container ships carrying black-market nuclear bombs are detonated in American port cities, millions are killed and the country is thrown into panic. In Greenwood, Nebraska, Paul Edwards learns about the devastating terrorist attacks on the news. As the power grid goes down, his fear is magnified by the knowledge that his wife and daughter are a thousand miles away in Atlanta. When his prepper father-in-law, Buck, insists on being part of the rescue, things go from bad to worse. Paul and Buck have hated each other for years.

Returning to town after a weekend on their ranch in Montana, James and Connor Andderson learn firsthand that the dead are coming back to life. As the nation succumbs to an outbreak unlike anything ever seen, the brothers must gather their supplies and set out on a road trip to save their parents from a fate worse than death itself. Their naïve optimism quickly fades, and the choices they confront will leave them scarred for life.

Deep into the coldest, Midwest winter on record, an electromagnetic pulse has taken out the nation’s power grid, plunging St. Louis into frigid darkness. Can ordinary people survive the apocalypse? Pre-med student Raine Caldwell is about to find out. The government isn’t coming to rescue her. If Raine and her group are going to make it, they must save themselves. After finding themselves in a community terrorized by ruthless and dangerous people, Raine and the others in her group must pull together to find justice, when one of their own is taken.

On a fateful night, a devastating force sweeps across America, killing millions without warning or explanation. Solly Masters finds himself trapped in the deadly chaos of Manhattan, his ex-wife Bella and their children over a thousand miles away in Texas. With the country's infrastructure in ruins and no government authority to be seen, Solly is forced to navigate the now-lawless landscape in a desperate journey to reach his family. But New York is just the beginning. From violence-plagued cities to cult-controlled communes, staying alive will mean making harrowing choices at every turn. As...

The bestselling, First Wave Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Survival Series is now available as a boxed set with all three action-packed volumes. “Sawyer has filled his books with fast-paced action scenes and educational survivalist skills.” Bookkaholic Book Magazine “I thought JT’s books were fabulous reads.” Thrillwriting.blogspot.com Volume 1, First Wave Special Forces veteran Travis Combs just wanted to forget his weary years of leading combat missions while taking an extended rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. As he and his group complete a 22-day trip on the Colorado River, they...

Kit Easton had struggled her entire life. Things couldn't possibly have gotten any worse for her...until the day they did. Her mother was dying, her husband had long ago become the enemy, they were down to their last dime, and her daughter had distanced herself to avoid everyone and everything. When Kit's sister takes their mother to New York for what is supposed to be a revolutionary, life-saving cure, a disaster no one could have predicted strikes. But it isn't just Kit's family that is affected, it rocks the entire world.

Would you survive? Vince Walker and the remaining survivors from the town of Cloverdale, Indiana continue to come to terms with their new reality. Accepting the fact that the country has been thrust into nuclear war with an unknown enemy means they must forget their former lives and forge ahead. The affects of the EMP blasts have left the survivors with no utilities, and no communication with the world outside of their once sleepy little town. A power surge also resulted in widespread fires, destroying most buildings and homes, leaving few resources intact. The challenge of living is made ...

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

In a world where technology has become humanity's greatest vulnerability, one town stands untouched amidst the chaos. When a mysterious pulse of energy sweeps across the globe, cities burn and millions perish as every electronic device becomes a weapon of mass destruction. In the blink of an eye, modern civilization crumbles, plunging the world into darkness and despair. But Hope, a small Nevada town, miraculously survives unscathed. As the rest of the country lies in ruins, this isolated community becomes a beacon for survivors and a target for those seeking to exploit the new world order....

A father and his son. Two-thousand-five-hundred miles apart. A blue ribbon crosses the sky. The world starts to unravel. No one knows what is happening, but everyone is trying to find out. Buck is running his big rig from the west coast. Garth is trapped in New York City with his high school friend. With Marine training and an 18-wheeler, Buck heads east. With no training and no communication with his father, Garth fights just to escape New York City.

Micah Cole has been in deep space for three years while his parents chase their obsession with finding intelligence to the far corners of the universe, but Micah dreams of the friends he left behind and counts the days until they return home. When a devastating meteor shower nearly destroys their ship, Micah is separated from his family and stranded on Sovereign, a vast planet of raging rivers, towering forests, and deadly creatures. If Micah ever wants to see his family or his home again, he’ll have to learn to how to survive on a hostile alien world, all alone.

John Eric Carver and Shrek are a retired Navy SEAL war dog team, now living in the mountains outside of San Diego. Both man and dog thought their life was now settled, finding peace on the 40-acre ranch they had moved to. But life, and a mutated virus, changed all that.

The first book in a now complete series. Thirty-five years after the world ended, a lonely man picks his way across the ashes of America on a final mission. Reuben Bane spent decades believing he was a force for good, preserving humanity's gene pool by hunting and eliminating deviants. Now, he seeks redemption for his evil deeds, and revenge on the cultish Foundation. He must travel across a broken country to find a woman from the past who holds the key to the future. After the End is the first book in a new series by Kevin Partner, veteran of the post apocalyptic science fiction genre. Set...

The world ends not with a bang, but a whimper—the whimper of dying engines 30,000 feet above the earth. When an EMP rips across the globe, plunging civilization into darkness, a Boeing 747 carrying John, a war-scarred veteran, hurtles from the sky. He survives the crash, but his real battle has just begun. Stranded in the Canadian wilderness with a handful of survivors, including the resourceful Sarah and a young girl named Ava who's lost everything, John must navigate a world stripped bare. No technology. No communication. Only the primal instincts to survive. As they fight to find their...

Things go from bad to worse for Ben and his crew as they struggle to push on toward Colorado. Unfortunately, due to Emma’s deteriorating health, they’re forced to alter their plans. But a delay might not be their biggest problem. Battling the elements and their own physical limits proves to be almost as treacherous as the roving gangs of highway bandits that lurk in the shadows, looking to prey upon the weak or unprepared. It’s more important than ever to remain vigilant.

Russell Cage would much rather work on his crumbling marriage and life than leave town with his best friend. But the fun weekend planned turns tragic when their plane loses power in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Battered and beaten, Russell emerges from the wreckage alone with no choice but to hike through the mountains and find help. Included in this box set: The Complete Survive the Fall Series.

In a world shattered by an apocalyptic attack survival is just the beginning. Paul Hickman, a man with a shadowy past, finds himself thrust into leadership of Hope, one of the last intact communities in a devastated America. As he navigates the treacherous waters of post-apocalyptic politics, Hickman must confront both external threats and internal power struggles that threaten to tear Hope apart. Meanwhile, his daughter Sam is missing, and he's dispatched an unlikely pair - a guilt-ridden ex-cop and a pregnant woman - on a perilous cross-country mission to find her. From the ashes of ...

The US Government secretly destroyed Russia's Nord Stream pipeline and now 367 of Russia's SS25 nuclear warheads are missing. Tom Sullivan is the CIA's top senior satellite image analyst and had just received satellite images showing that the nuclear warheads are not where they should be. Tom rushes to get his family and to warn his three best friends that WWIII is about to start and they must get their families to the safety of The Compound. Thirty minutes after entering the compound Russia fired their nuclear warheads and the world began it's decent into hell and the residents of ...