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One second, Beth Green is saving lives. The next, the world flatlines.A strange surge wipes out the grid and turns her hospital into a war zone. Her husband and daughter are miles away, unreachable and alone. To get back to them, Beth will have to cross a city that’s learning how fast civilization can die.

Aged 12, Sam Walker Roberts was groomed online by a teacher who later sexually assaulted and raped her. Weeks later, she fell into the clutches of a paedophile ring and was raped repeatedly by a gang, only one of whom faced justice. Devastated at the failures in the judicial system, Sam launched: ‘You have not defeated me’, a campaign which demanded more support and understanding for grooming victims.

When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels. With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice.

The EMP hit at 6:47 AM on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, the first fight broke out at the gas station. By Thursday, the grocery store was picked clean. By Friday, Jenna realized no one was coming to save them.

Moving from a London theatre to a Pacific nightmare, and finally to a garden at the end of human history, these novellas explore what those famous silences contained. They do not rewrite the originals; they stand alongside them, asking: What did you see, and why could you not say it? An immersive listening experience for fans of literary fiction and psychological depth, these testimonies give a final, defiant voice to the witnesses who have been waiting over a century to be heard.

No power. No law. Just the fight for survival. When an EMP wipes out power, chaos takes over. Dr. Annabelle Wheeler is trapped in a psychiatric hospital overrun by violent inmates. Across the city, Hazel, Lucy, and Katherine are kidnapped by a ruthless gangster. With no power or law, two ex-Marines race through a crumbling city to save their daughters.

When an EMP wipes out the power grid, Caroline Thompson is alone on the family ranch while her husband, Luke, and their son are stranded in Fort Worth as chaos erupts. With no power, no law, and danger at every turn, Caroline must fight her way into the collapsing city to find them. But bringing her family back together is only the beginning. Looters are closing in, determined to take everything Caroline has fought to protect as their ranch turns into a battleground for survival.

He had a gun against his temple when the dog walked out of the woods. That was six weeks into the collapse. Tonight Rob is still breathing, still walking, still climbing toward a homestead in the Colorado Rockies, because Captain won’t let him stop. Because a stray dog decided a broken man was worth saving. And because the next attack is coming fast.

The classic adventure that inspired Jurassic Park —now with an original prequel novella that tells the untold story of the man who discovered the lost world. Before Professor Challenger. Before the expedition. There was Maple White. In 1897, an American artist ventured into the Amazon jungle seeking something to paint. What he found was impossible: a hidden plateau where prehistoric creatures still lived, where pterodactyls soared above ancient forests, and where dinosaurs drank from primeval lakes. He was the first human to witness this lost world. He would also be the last to leave it alive.

In 1570, Pope Pius V signed a document that changed everything. With a single papal bull, Elizabeth I became a heretic—excommunicated, her assassination blessed by Rome, her subjects absolved of all loyalty. For thirty-three years, Elizabeth navigated a world where every Catholic courtier might be an assassin and every foreign ambassador a spy. The Northern Rising. The Ridolfi conspiracy. Mary, Queen of Scots. The Spanish Armada. The Earl of Essex's betrayal.

The true story behind the world's most beloved children's book is a story the world was never supposed to know. In June 1940, as Hitler's armies closed on Paris, two German-Jewish refugees fled the city on makeshift bicycles assembled from junkyard scrap. Strapped to a luggage rack, wrapped in oilcloth, was a five-pound manuscript about a mischievous, tailless monkey — the book the world would come to know as Curious George.

In a world engulfed by darkness, the courageous determination of Jennifer Smith shines as the lone beacon of hope in a landscape destroyed by bitter cold and chaos. Stripped of technology, humanity teeters on the brink of collapse. Starvation grips the land as ruthless gangs ascend, engaged in a battle for supremacy in this new, savage world.

When bullets fly, sometimes the best weapon is a brain. Yale astronomer Theodore Pembroke came to Wyoming to map stars. A clerical error made him Federal Marshal of Moon Creek—the deadliest town west of the Mississippi, where the last three lawmen died in increasingly creative ways.

In 1087, William the Conqueror's corpse exploded at his own funeral. The monarchy survived. This should not have been possible. But over the next thousand years, the English crown would pass through the hands of kings who spoke no English, rulers who couldn't attend their own weddings, and at least one monarch whose final wish was to have his skeleton lead armies into Scotland. There would be deaths by lamprey, murders filed under "probably fine," and a king who talked continuously for fifty-eight hours during a mental breakdown.

Joining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance The dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore, the great cathedral of Florence, is...

When an EMP brings the United States to its knees on Halloween, Lance Cooper must rescue his family and fight to survive amid the terror descending upon the city.

An EMP attack cripples the grid in seconds, leaving Bethany and Krystal trapped in Baja and hunted by cartel thugs. Hundreds of miles away, her husband Lucas begins a desperate journey on foot while their son Reuben escapes a burning city with his bandmates. With no power, no communication, and danger at every turn, each of them must fight to survive and find their way back to each other.

George Cannon, a former marine turned maximum security correctional officer, is responsible for keeping some of the world’s most dangerous inmates behind bars. When an EMP strike compromises the prison’s security, George must escape to his homestead in the mountains before he finds himself locked away in a cell.

A dead man among survey stakes. A woman in a cell. And a boundary worth killing for. Oregon's Cascade Mountains, 1881. Surveyor Silas Thorne is hired to verify a disputed treaty boundary that separates Klamath reservation land from a timber empire. The surveyor who drew the correct line — the brilliant, uncompromising Harriet Lockwood — sits in jail, accused of murdering the man whose body was found among her boundary markers. But Silas reads ground the way other men read books. And the ground is telling a different story. Stakes driven plumb vertical — not perpendicular to the slope.

An EMP strike shatters the nation. Keith flees biker gangs, his daughter is trapped in mall rubble, and his wife fights through burning streets. Their only hope is Eddie’s off-grid mountain homestead. Survival, family, and chaos collide in this explosive thriller.