Apocalyptic Women Fiction

In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures close, pursued by the Reckoner. Riding her sand ship, living rough in the blasted landscape whose taint she carries in her blood, she scouts the broken infrastructure and trades her scraps at the only known settlement, a ramshackle fortress of greed, corruption, and disease known as the System.

Fallon trägt eine schwere Verantwortung: Sie wurde mit Kräften geboren, die notwendig sind, um die postapokalyptische Welt von allem Bösen zu befreien. Doch dafür muss sie ihrer Familie den Rücken kehren und zur mutigen Kriegerin werden. Gleichzeitig tritt immer wieder Duncan in ihr Leben, mit dem sie etwas Tiefes verbindet. Um den dunklen Mächten und dem Mörder ihres leiblichen Vaters Einhalt zu gebieten, muss die junge Frau magische und nichtmagische Wesen zusammenbringen und Hinterhalt und Intrigen enttarnen, die die Gesellschaft noch vor der ersten Schlacht zu unterwandern drohen.

Race to Refuge rivets listeners with mild thrills in a novel that's not about the zombies, but about the people striving for elusive shelter and a future of hope.Ty, who's only recently gotten his driver's permit, is abruptly thrust into adulthood as he desperately seeks to save his younger sister. He makes a fast friend in a German shepherd yearning for companionship and love in this new, dangerous world.

Winter is over and Lena is ready to leave the relative safety of Pearl Two, a closed community in Portland. A member of her party is missing. The woman they trusted for months is lying. She can’t be sure of anyone. With each step, she confronts the physical threats lurking in the wilderness and struggles to hold onto her dream of creating alliances to heal their future. Haunted by memories of the past and driven by the hope for a better future, she searches for the strength to built unity from the growing anarchy.

In the wake of a devastating plague, two communities emerge as bastions of survival. One is called the City, and its people scrabble for scraps in the wasteland. The other, New Charity, enjoys the bounty of its hydroelectric dam and refuses City denizens so much as a drop of precious water. When City-dweller Cressyda inherits her father's ranch within New Charity, she becomes intent on opening the dam to all - no matter the cost.

Outgunned and outnumbered after the world fell into chaos, Sergeant Jason Walker and his military service dog, MMax, desperately need the women around them to become warfighters. The ladies have the determination and grit to meet the challenges of the apocalypse, but can they kill the brutal thugs attacking their community? Sergeant Maria McGill helps Jason prepare their inexperienced but willing females to fight with unusual tactics and weapons.

Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared - or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors in search of answers. Long-dead volcanoes erupt, the ground rattles and splits, and monsters come to ominous life. Calliope will be forced to reconcile the geological record with the heritage she once denied.

It's night, and the walls of Rachel's home creak in the darkness of the Australian bush. Her fear of other people has led her to a reclusive life as far from them as possible, her only occasional contact with her sister. A hammering on the door. There stand a mother, Hannah, and her sick baby. They are running for their lives from a mysterious death sweeping the Australian countryside - so soon, too soon, after everything.

After a devastating war decimated most of the world, Hudson Lane has known only the oppressive life under her own father's tyranny. She finally escapes, branding herself an outlaw and hunted by the Enforcers. Her best chance at survival is Connor Mackenzie, an aggressively sensual fugitive who opens her eyes to the wicked possibilities of a world without rules.

An unexpected solar storm destroys the U.S. power grid and unravels civilization. Natasha is a student from a nomadic Siberia tribe trying to adjust to her new life in New York and fit in. But when a cataclysmic solar storm slams into the planet, everything changes. Lightning storms hammer the entire globe, burning and destroying everything they touch. The electrical grid goes down. Fires rage out of control. Cars and electronics quit working. Help isn’t coming. Time is short to flee from a now-lawless city with millions of hungry people who are becoming increasingly desperate.

If there’s one good thing about the end of the world, it’s that Jillian wasn’t alone when it happened. Her neighborhood is still populated and more importantly, no one is trying to eat anyone else. The rest of the world isn’t so lucky. Where the awakened roam, terror follows. A medical miracle turned bad is the cause of it all. What’s worse, almost everyone has some form of the medicine in their system. Medical nanites changed the landscape is wonderful ways, but when those medical miracles went haywire, it was the end of the world.

After the US is ravaged by ecological disasters, Maya Roberts, a young herbalist, must travel in the hazardous high desert to find healing plants for her community, which has been stricken by some new, fatal illness. There, she encounters a remarkably peculiar Navajo named Howling Sky, who is able to trigger rare phenomena - impossible occurrences. But is Howling Sky a man - or a ghost?

With no desire to live in a world void of all human life, Faye sets a goal of making it home to die. Then she encounters Dodge and two young boys, who ignite a spark long lost in her: the will to live. Following radio calls, they discover they are not alone and decide to join a growing camp of survivors. But another discovery threatens their new-found safety and the rules begin to change. As they desperately try to find a safe haven and figure out their place in this new world, Faye must weigh the decision of what she wants to do against what she should do.

Human civilization is in trouble. How come? The fault lies with some men who have a genetic defect caused by eons of human evolution, where strong men prone to violence were biologically selected because they were needed to protect women, children, and the tribe from enemies and wild animals.

The world has moved on, but Ivy just can't. Besides, she has everything she needs on her sustainable-living wooded homestead, and no desire to brave this grim new world. Until the day a massive bear chases her into an isolated cabin and she discovers she's not alone.