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After the world has been cast into the darkness of a nuclear winter, a rural Maine family realizes they must leave their home or risk starvation. They're seeking a better life, but find unimaginable horrors on the road. In this epic, blood-soaked saga, there are only two options: Survive or die trying.

After a body is found gutted in the road, Sheriff Elven Hallie discovers the murder was collateral damage to an abduction. One that leads out of his jurisdiction. And one that pushes the boundaries of everything he stands for. Madds is missing. Monacan County is rooted in criminal activity, corrupt law enforcement, and most of all, superstition. Elven will do whatever it takes to find Madds, even if it means forming a partnership with the man he despises most. Hollis Starcher.

One year after his sister’s death, Edward decides to follow through with their dream of opening their guesthouse as a vacation rental. At first, Jax seems like the ideal guest. He’s everything Edward wishes he could be: handsome, outgoing, and without a care in the world. But as the days pass, things don’t seem to be going as well as Edward expected. Jax is inserting himself into Edward’s life, conveniently bumping into him at his work, and then there are the dates he brings back to the guesthouse. The dates Edward never sees leave.

A girl, dead and desecrated. An occult ritual. And one forced confession. Seven years later, a town wants to forget. Reeling after solving the murders in Dupray, Carolina McKay is anything but stable. Her mother has kicked her out. She can’t face the only man she’s ever known as a father. And her only friends are little white pills. It wasn't the heroes parade she deserved, but then again, nothing comes easy for her. So, when the perfect mystery presents itself, she has good cause to be suspicious. 

They longed to find paradise. They found the opposite. After making it south of the border, Wyatt and Seth fight to save their mother's life, only to encounter a mysterious new group offering assistance. Who can be trusted in a world gone mad? Desperate to get south of the equator, the Morrills head to the Atlantic in hopes of sailing to a better world, to a land where the sun still shines. 

Carolina McKay thought she’d escaped her past - the murders that wrecked her youth, her family, but most of all, her hometown. After her promising career as a big-city police detective is ended by a gunshot, Carolina heads home to Dupray, West Virginia, defeated and purposeless. Sheriff Lester Fenech, her mentor and surrogate father, is desperate to solve the case which has tormented him. But he needs help. When the first killings rocked Dupray, Carolina was just a teenager. Now, she’s the best chance they have to catch a monster.

After stumbling across the remains of a casino in the south Texas desert, Wyatt and his family discover a community that promises them not only food and shelter but a new way of life. Everything seems perfect. Too perfect. In the midst of vicious attacks from roaming bands of cannibals and outlaws, Seth, Barbara, and Allie embrace the riches of their new lifestyle, but Wyatt grows suspicious that all is not as it seems. That Papa, the community’s larger-than-life leader, isn’t the benevolent figure he portrays.

Dan has everything that a normal person wants. Love, friends, and a place to call home. But Dan is not a normal person, no matter how much he tries, there’s one thing that’s still missing. Blood. His craving to kill can only be held off by the soulless for so long. He knows that if he doesn’t find conflict soon, things won’t end well for his group of survivors.

Despite all odds, Wyatt and his family survived nuclear winter. But with food supplies exhausted and vicious attacks on their home, they’re left with no choice. It’s time to leave Maine and seek out a life with a future. Sticking together was supposed to keep them safe, but cannibal country earned its name for a reason, and the reality of life on the road is worse than they ever imagined.

Pax has put his days of being a pastor behind him. One month after the event and it’s become easy to adopt the mentality of kill or be killed. He knows at any moment, the innocent lives he has taken could catch up with him, but when a better man takes mercy on him, he must decide if the group he has aligned himself with is the right decision, or if killing people is easier than letting them in.

Paxton Bale wants nothing more than to lead his youth group and get home to his wife, but when a cosmic event causes people to turn into soulless monsters, he finds himself fighting for his life against the teens he was supposed to keep safe. Trapped at the church, only a miracle can save him. A miracle named Danny, but Danny isn’t exactly who he says he is. Fresh off his last kill, Danny is what people define as a serial killer, and he is finding out that the rules from the old world don’t apply anymore.

When an old friend from Sheriff Elven Hallie’s past returns, it should be a cheerful reunion. But when the bodies start turning up, Elven has more than a few questions. Hunter Wallace is everything that Elven tries to be, but greater. Better looking, a faster draw, and most of all, isn’t hated for being a Hallie. Being called out on his conflict of interest, Elven needs the help of his deputy, Madds, to help him wade through this one. But Madds hasn’t been acting herself. Lack of sleep, excessive use of force, and more than a little paranoid. Madds has her own demons to deal with.

A dead man in the woods. A corrupt game warden. A silver-tongued preacher. And a whole lot of drugs. When Sheriff Elven Hallie investigates a murder, the evidence seems self-explanatory. But when he digs in, things get more complicated. Following a lead, he visits a revival in the woods led by smooth-talking preacher Spencer Caldwell. The hunters in the area are already angry, having filed numerous complaints about the operation. But it isn’t until Elven goes to see the man himself that he knows something is off.

A lifeless girl slips into the river, cold and crumpled. Her body washes away with the rain. Her killer remains a mystery. Sheriff Elven Hallie has been longing for a new case that would add some excitement to his small-town life. But a dead girl wasn’t what he expected. On the last murder case he worked, he was just a deputy with an experienced Sheriff to guide him and they were looking for an outsider. This time, he’s in charge, and the killer is part of their community.

Carolina McKay saved two towns from sadistic killers while putting her own life on the line. Risking it all for strangers comes easy to her, but what happens when the victim is family?