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After a sudden mysterious disease is unleashed on the country, claiming millions of lives, including that of his family, Mark is left alone. The cities are in chaos with survivors killing for food and water. Knowing as supplies dwindle the insanity will spread to his neighborhood, he creates a fortress in the basement of his suburban home, stock piles food, water, weapons, and medical supplies, and stays out of sight during the day.

Bobby and Becca Warren are enjoying college life when a mysterious disease ravages the country. With chaos ensuing, they head for home to join their family, but when they arrive they discover their home has been burned and find the graves of their mother and youngest brother in the backyard. With scavengers swarming over the neighborhood, the siblings decide to search for their father using clues he has left for them, but before they can find him they are captured by a local militia.

Five months after the life-changing apocalyptic event, Mark craves normal activities. Having battled militias, gangs, and psycho killers, he'd just like to do something that reminds him of the world of his past. What could be more relaxing and normal than a fishing trip? Lynn, his co-director of the community, feels it is an excuse to seek action and violence and opposes the trip.

Once a police officer, Danny Roth left the force after the brutal murder of his partner and his mysterious involvement in the deaths of six men. Now, living a somewhat secluded life, he has a new career, a few friends and the amateur baseball team he plays on. Life isn't great, but it's peaceful. However, when Danny inadvertently rescues one of his teammates from a vicious assault, he becomes the target of a local crime syndicate. The danger heightens after his friend disappears and Danny is brutally beaten. To survive, Danny must resurrect the man he had sworn never to become again.

Trapped outside both the city and the invading army, Lucas and Corporal Jennings must find a way to help the residents of New World City overcome superior numbers and firepower. But what can two people do against thousands? As the walls begin to fall around the city, Lucas and Jennings devise a plan to draw pressure from the city.

On the run and separated from their team, Lucas and Corporal Jennings must find a way to return safely home. Hiding in a primitive village until they can heal and form a plan, they become aware that they may be more captive than guests. When the tribe of cannibals that were pursuing them discovers their location, the two survivors must go on the run again. With the pursuers closing in and hidden dangers lurking around them, the chance of survival is slim and reaching home near impossible.

After surviving a killer’s bullet, second chance is a term few people understand better than Bridgett. But a second chance doesn’t mean life will be better, or even easier. Nervous and afraid, her self-confidence shattered, Bridgett becomes a liability as a police officer. To escape her fears and perhaps salvage what is left of her marriage, Bridgett convinces her husband, Drew, to start over by moving to far off and remote Lubec, Maine.

Twenty years after the horrific nuclear events that devastated the world's population, an organized city of survivors sends out a small exploratory force consisting of scientists and their military escorts. Their mission is to locate new supplies of food and water for the growing community. Few have ventured from the city since the war and fewer returned. Lucas Sanderson is one of four Historians.

With the mysterious event that devastated mankind now four months past, and winter fast approaching, Bobby, Becca, and Myron hunt for game. Though life is not easy, it has at least settled into what now passes as normal. That is until they discover a band of hunters stalking human prey. For Mel, Caryn, and Tara, the end of the world has been a constant struggle to survive. The new world has become chaotic and dangerous. Life has little value except in the depths of depravity in the minds of those who own you.

All Mark wanted was to find someone to help with his daughter’s paralysis. What he found was a mysterious military organization protecting a one-time medical facility, a nuclear power plant on the verge of a meltdown, an Asian spy and a fortified town run by women for women. Turned away by the facility and the town, Mark is determined to find help and answers to his growing amount of questions. But sometimes answers can be worse than not knowing.

Derek is an author whose previous book was turned into a blockbuster movie. However, subsequent efforts have fallen well short, leaving him morose and lacking confidence. Frustrated by his inability to write anything fresh, his agent and ex-wife, Jackie, hounds him, adding additional pressure to his already blocked mind.