When the unthinkable happens, not everyone is ready. Not everyone knows what to do. It is a very rare occasion that Abby Miller travels into the city, but an errand that can only be done in town prompts her to make it a girls' day out with her two daughters. Unfortunately, the day is far from perfect and they are in the worst place possible when nuclear war strikes ... ground zero. Lacking any survival knowledge, she finds herself in the shelter of the city's Liberty Tunnels with a group of strangers, none of which know much more than she does. The odds are against them. Panic, hunger, and sickness are rampant. The tunnels increasingly become more dangerous. With limited skills, Abby must pull it together, not only get her and the girls out of the tunnel shelter, but to survive long enough to make it home one last time.

When the Ashes Fall

Literature & Fiction

Druga, Jacqueline

Contemporary

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On October 7, 1986, on her sixth birthday, Mandy Perkins, her younger brother and sister, along with her grandmother are brutally murdered while they prepare for the party. Though her mother, Pam, maintains her innocence, she is convicted of the gruesome crime.After eighteen years in a mental institution, a strand of DNA acquits Pam and she is free. She believes that she knows who actually committed the atrocities, and vows to find the murderer: a woman she has known since childhood.Psychiatrist, Desmond Andrews is drawn in by the unique situation and the shroud of mystery that surrounds the case. Pam is his patient, yet he feels compelled to get to know the other woman, Sharon, to understand the basis of Pam's suspicions. Unfortunately, he suffers with his own demons, a diagnosed paraphiliac, and he places himself between the two women in his own unethical investigation. His objective to help find the killer quickly becomes clouded.Pam is unaware that she is lost in the shuffle of her psychiatrist's sexual addiction and perverted fantasy world. She places her complete trust in him and recruits his help in her quest. She has one single goal. She will go to any and all lengths to uncover the truth of that fateful day and bring the true killer to justice one and for all. No matter who it is.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In a small pocket of the world the sickness has been in existence since the sixties. A disease so feral, it strikes eighty percent of all children under the age of fifteen. For decades it has pushed the boundaries into three countries. Those infected become mere shells, often in a state followed by violent tantrums. There is no hope, no treatment and there is no cure. Little is known about the sickness called the Nodding Disease. Information regarding it is often buried deep. But what would happen if the resilient disease mutates and breaks into heavily populated areas? With a infection rate of eighty percent, our future could all but be eliminated along with our young. Nodding takes an emotional and fictional look at this very real disease. In Nodding, the disease has mutated. Following an outbreak in the UK, a global pandemic ensues. The young victims are so violent, they are a danger to all those around them. The bacteria is resistant to any treatment and deadly to any adult exposed. Governments must make their resolutions as time runs out for humanity, and worse, parents must face their most heart wrenching decisions.

Nodding

Genre Fiction

A plague has wiped out humanity and a new civilization emerges. Tucked safely behind their iron walls, protected from the horrors of the plague ravaged world, the citizens of this community live as if the rest of the world doesn't exist. Their own ways of life are often comical and heartbreaking. But it's their world ... welcome to Beginnings, Montana.Circle of Justice is the fourth book in the series. Emotions run high as Beginnings tries to bounce back from conflict with the scientists and the tragedies that occurred. Normalcy fails to return as Joe discovers that a traitor is among them. The traitor is bound and determined to bring the downfall of Beginnings, and take back what is his. But can he do so without tragedy? The revealing of the traitor leads to what could be the biggest loss Beginnings ever faces.

Circle of Justice: Beginnings Book 4 (Beginnings Series)

Thrillers & Suspense

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Every 26,000 years the earth experiences a magnetic reversal or pole shift. These reversals are always accompanied by disasters of catastrophic proportions. They also coincide with two other events: an ice age and species extinction.We are, at this time, 50,000 years overdue.Darius Cobb wasn't thinking of man's extinction. He honestly never gave it a thought. A college professor and part time country singer, Darius worried only about teaching and playing his guitar until the day he is attacked by cockroaches and is placed into a special government quarantine.There, he and the others start piecing together the inevitable. Using his knowledge, he begins predicting the events that unfold. Together he and his group plan and then implement a long term survival plan.If the world is going to end, they will survive.TORN is a fast paced, scientific, character driven and sometimes comical novel. In a 'docu-drama' fictional style, it follows the tragic events that unleash upon the earth and the attempts by Darius and the others to defy the odds as they strive to survive man's extinction.

Torn

Following a mysterious storm, the world is thrown into chaos. Communications are disabled along with computer networking. Nightly, the skies illuminate and with each sequential storm more and more people disappear. No one knows what is causing the events and as the governments break down, the population dwindles to a mere fraction. Communities are left to fend for themselves. Mankind faces an extinction level event. Grant and Rita Mason have lived in the same town for over three decades. Their town has become one of the few remaining pockets of civilization. They live not because they refuse to go down without a fight, but because they, unlike many others have discovered the secret to surviving. But as the secret to the events unravel, those who remain of the human race are left to wonder: Do they really want to survive?

The Last Mile Trilogy

After emerging from a coma, Faye Wills opens her eyes to complete darkness and the feeling of being trapped. Soon she discovers she is in no less than a nightmare world and awakens in the worst place imaginable. She is one of thousands of bodies in a makeshift mass grave that was once a football stadium. Left for dead. There are no signs of life and the only sound she hears is the buzzing of flies that follow the stench of death. Once out of the stadium she steps into a desolate, barren world, void of all life and people. Faye learns that while in a comatose state, the world was besieged by some sort of epidemic. Without a soul around, there are a lot of missing pieces. Where did everyone go? What really happened? Though in a weakened state, she must pull it together and move forward. She focuses on a goal of finding not only answers but survivors. However, the further she moves in her journey, the more Faye realizes that she may never find anyone and must face the very scary and real possibility that she may not only be the last woman on earth, but the last person as well.

Last Woman

Createspace Independent Pub

Following a distress call from the state police, Dr. Edward Neil and his team from the Centers for Disease Control enter the small town of Hartworth, Montana. Immediately they encounter a man in a pickup truck holding a quarantine post. His body decimated by a disease like they have never seen. The entire town, population a little under a thousand ... dead. Men, women and children. The unknown germ hit so fast, the town did not stand a chance of survival. But it didn't hit so fast that they couldn't shut down and protect others from what they had.It is a race against the clock. Not only must Edward Neil discover what wiped out the small town in just a couple days, he needs to determine if it crossed boundaries. The germ is strong, contagious, deadly and fast. If it escaped Hartworth, humanity could very well face an extinction level event.

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When the Ashes Fall

Pam

Nodding

Circle of Justice: Beginnings Book 4 (Beginnings Series)

When the Ashes Fall

Torn

Cry

The Last Mile Trilogy

Last Woman

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