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The realness and startling reality that many may face in an End of the World scenario. This book has them in spades. In a world gone mad, how would you survive? This is a Survival Blueprint with an exciting story line that you can't put down. From one adventure to the next where all seems lost, the strong will survive.

Barely making ends meet in Baltimore, Aria finds it difficult to obtain gainful employment with no work experience and skills in jousting and swordsmanship. Just before she's served an eviction notice, the Mistress of the local vampire family offers her a job - to research a magical symbol. It's an easy task for a woman who has spent every moment of her life either in armor, or with her nose in ancient manuscripts. The money's good, and the seven day deadlines should be no problem.

Every year, 100 of the most dangerous convicted criminals from the impoverished Ward are given a chance to earn their freedom and to live a life of luxury in Nova Heights, the walled-in city of glass and steel estates built into the side of a mountain. All that’s standing between the Hopefuls and a full pardon are the Amnesty Games, a seven-day barrage of challenges, puzzles, mazes, traps, obstacles, contests, and competitions.

Shiloh Oleson is still picking up the pieces. After using lethal force to dispatch a supernatural foe, the teen is plagued by nightmares and confusing feelings. And now she's horrified to learn the police want her for murder.

On a desolate peninsula, Skelling Hall has stood for more than a century. When Iris Walsh confronts some troubling truths about her family, she flees to the Upper Peninsula to seek solace at the home of her grandmother. She’s soon swept into a disturbing mystery haunting her grandmother’s small town. At the heart of the mystery is Skelling Hall, the long-abandoned mansion with a sinister past.

What happens when the first day of school is the last day of the world? For 16-year-old Virtue, navigating 11th grade is hard enough. Throw in the mass carnage of the Purple War, the brain-mangling Lemming Plague, and the overnight, post-apocalyptic breakdown of civilization, and suddenly, arguing with her parents, being picked on by bullies, and tyrannized by her teachers doesn’t seem quite so devastating.

Shiloh Oleson is running scared. Recovering from severe injuries and with the police keen to interview her over a string of mysterious deaths, she has no choice but to lie low. But the fiercely loyal girl soon races into action when she learns a close friend has been kidnapped by her greatest enemy. Francesca Russo wants to see the best in people. When the softhearted survivor is snatched by a vicious man, she’s horrified when he forces her to employ necromantic powers to grant his dead friends new bodies, but reluctantly agrees when he promises to use only naturally deceased corpses.

Kaley didn’t intend to fall in love, but what started out as innocent study dates with her favorite baseball player has turned into excuses to see each other as often as possible. They know they need to stay just friends, but they can't fight the pull toward one another.

Accompanied by her best friends and Beynac, her faithful golden retriever service dog, 16-year-old Virtue is about to attempt a daring escape from Aegis Academy and from its infestation of deadly, mostly naked, and occasionally cannibalistic Virulents. Of course, getting out of the academy means getting into the middle of the Purple War.

On her 16th birthday, Caitlyn Brady discovers an oak box containing proof of a secret world. A world of druids who possess magical abilities—and she is one of them. Sent to a school where she can master her own blessing, she finds herself thrown into the role of a savior, one of only two druids in existence with an extra blessing (or a curse). Caitlyn realizes that everything she once knew also contained an omission of truth. A truth she would have to learn on her own while searching for a way to protect the druids from the power-hungry rogues. 

The 3:15 bell used to mean the end of class. Now, it means the end of everything. The Purple War is raging outside the protective walls of Aegis Academy. The infected, murderous Virulents are getting more aggressive on the inside.

Mirari Vega feels death’s chilly breath. A global pathogen has killed every woman in her life and she'll be next. So when her father gives the 18-year-old an alternative, she must make an impossible decision—die with a raging fever or climb into the frigid embrace of an experimental cryogenic chamber.