Mystery Survival Fiction

When 13-year-olds Aaron and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirks are enough to prevent them from ever having friends. But as they trek through the challenging and unforgiving landscape, they learn that they each have what it takes to make the other whole.

Disaster strikes after an EMP disables the country’s power grid, disrupting communications, transportation, and essential utilities. Ben Riker, a prepper and Lieutenant with the Asheville fire department, has managed to secure a new home to rebuild what his family had lost. But before they can start a new life, Ben must retrieve his daughter before the enemy finds her.

Stockton Clay receives a mysterious invitation to the world premiere of a secret prototype supercar. At the gala event in Southern France, one of his colleagues is killed in a bizarre accident, and Clay is secretly led to CIA agents who tell him that he was the real target in the murder. Clay then discovers he suffers from a rare disease that can only be cured by the blood cells from a direct relative. Clay's search for his biological father leads him to Japan, where he is caught in the crossfire between the CIA and a mad Russian scientist trying to sway the balance of world power.

After an EMP disrupts the nation’s power grid, putting millions at risk, Charlie Owens flees Seattle with his family to his cabin on the remote Beckett Island. But it doesn’t take long for the dangers of this post-apocalyptic world to threaten his family’s survival.

Powerful, glamorous television journalist Mary Carelli is charged with the murder of famed novelist Mark Ransom. However, she pleads self-defense against rape. Christopher Paget, Mary's attorney (and former lover), prepares to shock the courtroom with revelations about Ransom's past as a twisted sexual predator. But as the trial unfolds, Paget is in for some surprises of his own. He learns that Mary may not be telling the whole truth about the rape, and may well have a secret motive for murder. Meanwhile, newly disclosed tapes of Ransom force Mary to confront ugly secrets about her own past, including testimony at Congressional hearings 15 years earlier that led to her stardom and helped Paget bring down the President.

At 21 Cassie is in a dead-end job and has just been dumped, whilst her friends are succeeding at school or their careers, and compared to her, are generally winning life. On a whim, she hands the reins of her decisions over to Twitter, and at first her followers seem to be making her life better. However, as the instructions continue, they become increasingly strange, and she finds herself held at ransom, forced to commit crimes for an unknown party who seems to be stalking her at every turn.

Civilization has finally reached the breaking point. After an EMP destroys the nation’s power grid, a family’s strength is tested. An EMP means the end of the world as they know it for a family who fights to survive. When disaster strikes in the form of an EMP, Keith Jameson and Ted Holder flee to their remote homestead with their families.

Emergency service worker David Vaughn cares deeply for his neighbors, the people of New York City, so when Iran detonates an electromagnetic pulse and takes out the grid, he feels obligated to stay and help the survivors in the lawless aftermath. But surrounded by chaos and carnage, it’s only a matter of time before his helping hands harden into vengeful fists.

Allison Catsworth discovers she has a problem…. While falling to her death, she sees not her life flash before her eyes, but her reflection. A moment of fear brings about transformation into a cat that enables her to land on all four paws, which saves her life. Yet it is in that moment, that everything for Ally changes. A search for answers leads to hypnotic life regression, where she discovers past lives of a lab assistant connected to World War II and feline DNA that is changing her own DNA.

In this gripping tale, legendary aviator Amelia Earhart survives her 1937 plane crash and washes up on a remote Pacific island. Stranded and presumed dead by the world, Amelia must summon all her courage, ingenuity and determination to endure on the mysterious island. As she explores her new surroundings, Amelia uncovers tantalizing hints of the island's hidden past — ancient ruins, ghostly whispers, and a secret community of castaways. Forging an unbreakable bond with her fellow survivors, Amelia finds a new sense of purpose and belonging amidst the island's many challenges.

Banding together with others is a necessity. Finding like-minded individuals is crucial to survival. But join up with the wrong people, and it could be your last day. What will Jake, Aby, and Meg do, now that they're once again on their own? Will they try once again to find a group to join? Or will their next attempt at communal survival be their last? Survive the Collapse is a post-apocalyptic EMP thriller. It's book two in the End of the World series.

During the aftermath of a massive solar flare that has plunged the country into the Dark Ages, Abram and Nick must prepare the compound against the growing bandit threat. But will earlier decisions sink their chances of survival and put those they love at risk of being annihilated? As if the bandit threat wasn’t bad enough, an erratic stranger is closing in on Abram’s compound. But something is lurking beneath the surface of this man, who sees the collapse of society as the greatest opportunity of his life.

Three women, high-school friends, reunite for a Caribbean cruise on a luxury sailboat. But the smallest mistake triggers a series of devastating events. Suddenly, in a desperate fight for survival, the women battle the elements, the threat of modern-day piracy, and their own frailties. Still Summer is at once a spellbinding adventure and a story about the bonds that hold friend to friend - and how facing our own mortality tests the truth of everything we think we know.

From author McCall Hoyle comes a new young adult novel, Meet the Sky, a story of love, letting go, and the unstoppable power of nature. It all started with the accident. The one that caused Sophie’s dad to walk out of her life. With nothing but pain in her past, all Sophie wants is to plan for the future - keep the family business running and protect her mom and sister from another disaster. But when a hurricane threatens her home on the Outer Banks, Sophie winds up trapped on the island with Finn Sanders, the one person who could show her how to love and live life again.

The president's retreat, Camp David, is one of the safest places in the United States. So why can't the President's son, Luke, and his friends Theo and Callie stay there without Secret Service agents constantly hovering over them, watching their every move? And yet, when an earthquake sets off a raging wildfire, causing a chain reaction that wreaks havoc at Camp David, they are suddenly on their own. Now Luke needs a plan....

When the nation falls, who will rise from the ashes? After an EMP explodes over the United States, Kora Clark, an ambitious rookie cop, finds herself leading a revolution in a lawless city. Looting, murder, and the worst of mankind bubble to the surface of our broken nation. From an invading foreign army to cut-throat gangsters, multiple factions vie for power in the explosion’s aftermath. Now our country’s survival hinges on San Antonio’s success: Can Officer Clark maintain order or will the powerless city consume her like it has millions of others?

During the coldest winter on record, an EMP sends American back to the Stone Age. It’s been a week without power. No phones. No computers. Nothing. As the crisis unfolds, one family seeks sanctuary from the cold on the city's outskirts.

It’s been a week without power. No phones. No computers. Nothing. Whatever shred of humanity is left in people is slowly dwindling away. Gangs are forming, people are starving, and the whole country is in a free-for-all.

In 1943, a deep undercover Allied agent within the German military command structure is captured and taken prisoner by the SS before she can make her final data drop. She had discovered the existence of Projekt Regenschirm, a top secret major Nazi science effort to win the war by two different means: raising an army of any and all dead they can find whose sheer numbers will overwhelm their enemies, and by creating enhanced monstrous supersolders to lead them.

When an EMP destroys the nation’s power grid, Joanna Mercer must fight her way down the Appalachian Mountains and into the city below to rescue her daughter from the enemy threatening violence against their country. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Last Cabin and experience the compelling world of this post-apocalyptic suspense story.