Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Two astronomers have detected a strange, pulsing signal from deep space. Within hours, the US government goes into lockdown, restricting airspace and scrubbing scientific data. Was the signal an intercepted communication revealing alarming plans for an enemy’s military strike? Or has humanity at long last found proof of extraterrestrial life?

Jimmy Madison was the product of low life parents who neither one wanted to be saddled with a kid. When Jimmy’s mother is forced to send him to school, officials immediately realize the abysmal conditions that he has been forced to endure. Jimmy is placed with foster parents who completely turn his life around providing a loving Christian environment and a happy childhood. Jimmy grows into a young man learning about farm life and outdoor sports while gaining many skills along the way. After graduating high school, he embraces becoming an adult after he inherits his biological father’s ...

Cody Binder had grown up as the smart kid in his class. He lost his mother to cancer and later his father in an alcohol fueled car accident. With no other family, and only a full ride scholarship to MIT to fall back on, Cody puts everything he has into getting a good education and planning his future. After graduation, Cody takes a job with an automation manufacturer where he quickly makes his mark. Living like a hermit and working long days, he amasses a sizeable next egg. After an unfortunate medical issue, Cody meets a nurse named Grace while in the hospital recovering from emergency ...

The economic collapse started in China. But the world's economies were interconnected and interdependent. Within hours, the collapse had spread around the world. Eldon Waters was a prepper, and had been ever since he married Felicia Gomez. He heard news of the economic collapse as he was getting ready to start a new work week. He knew immediately that chaos and violence would quickly erupt. His first priority was defending his family. He took his marriage vows seriously. He was prepared to lay down his life to keep his wife and children safe. That meant that they would need to escape the ...

This is a story of survival and revenge. Tim Turner must not only survive the malicious nasty cruel deceitful world of corporate politics, but prepare for the future apocalypse that he is sure to come. Though suffering from severe mental illness inflicted upon him by the 1 percenters and beautiful people in life, Tim manages to extract sweet revenge and payback permitting him to pursue his prepper lifestyle finding love along the way. Together, Tim and Laura surround themselves with a group of like-minded individuals who become a tight knit family while preparing for and surviving the worst...

Anna and Jim Nolte retire to a remote Alaskan cabin after growing completely disillusioned with people and society in general. The cabin was constructed as a hunting and fishing lodge catering to people who wanted to fly in to a remote location, but not sacrifice their luxuries like indoor plumbing. Anna and Jim are soul mates and preppers to the core living a subsistence lifestyle where Jim could hunt and trap to his heart’s content. Even in remote Alaska, they are confronted with an EMP attack on the lower 48 and the uncertainty of knowing what will happen next.