Showing results for "Blackouts" in Genre Fiction

Summer, 2022. When Meg and Cat are forced to take a dangerous shortcut home one night, they notice two men silently following them. Suddenly running for their lives, they scramble into an abandoned building to hide and wait for help. One year later. Attempting to escape the horrors of that fateful night, Meg barricades herself into a safehouse at the edge of a crumbling sea cliff. As a storm rages outside, a blackout plunges the house into darkness. But Meg’s not alone.

Cut loose from the CIA after a devastating injury, Ember Hendryx only wants one thing—to live long enough to find her missing sister. The clock is running down. She’s got the skills to do this, but she’ll need the one thing she can’t do for herself if she’s going to succeed. With no leads and little idea what her sister was into, this just might take everything she’s got. And give her a future she can’t even dream of.

British M16 Agent and former SAS trooper Jack Tate is trying to escape his past when he witnesses a terrorist attack of unthinkable scale. An electro-magnetic pulse knocks out the US power grid, killing anything with a computer processor, throwing the whole country into chaos. Under the cover of the blackout, a clandestine operation aims to assassinate prominent public figures on US soil. Looting and violence spreads across the country. And Jack Tate’s past comes back to haunt him.

In 1942, an impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its doors open. The women she convinces to attend the first meeting couldn't be more different—a wealthy spinster determined to aid the war effort, an exhausted mother looking for a fresh start, and a determined young war worker.

Julia began her career as an emergency physician but changed her chosen specialty after a tragic case. A young boy was brought to her ER with a severe allergic reaction and dies after she attempts a life-saving procedure.

England, 1941. Reunited briefly with her husband-to-be before he returns to fighting, Lily Baker now finds her mundane army office work dreary. But when her boss asks her to keep watch on the happenings at the depot, she quickly suspects a new weapons supplier of fraud. As she trains her sharp eye on the potential cheat, she agrees to help an unmarried colleague with an unexpected pregnancy. But when, without evidence, she is accused of being the one with child, she faces hard decisions.

Three months have passed since a disastrous EMP left the nation without power, with only the strongest and most prepared still standing. Jack is a survivor. After a tragic showdown, he is keen to step back and allow others to take the spotlight, scarred by painful memories of the casualties under his leadership. But when a terrifying and charismatic new foe arrives on their doorstep, Jack and his friends are lured into a conflict that threatens to be even more devastating than the last. Can Jack step up and protect those he cares about when it matters most?

The world is in the throes of economic decay and at the mercy of terrorists. Across this post-apocalyptic landscape marches one extraordinary soldier and his band of brothers. In a novel as disturbingly plausible as it is powerfully gripping, they are headed into a battle in which they will have to come to grips with the power of technology and the true price of freedom.

When my mother named me Ophelia, she thought she was being literary. She didn’t realize she was being tragic. On the surface, Annie Powers’s life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter...

Longlisted for the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2021 Bookmark Book of the Year Prize ""One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today"" (Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting) makes his American debut with...

From New York Times bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock comes the third installment in her gripping survival series, where fear, hunger, and suspicion threaten to tear a fragile community apart--and one young man's life hangs in the balance. Eight months into a worldwide blackout, the...

Es ist Sommer, alle sind auf Gansett Island, und ausgerechnet in der größten Hitze fällt der Strom aus. Damit ist nicht nur Charlies und Sarahs von langer Hand geplante Einweihungsparty in Gefahr, sondern auch die mit Spannung erwartete Inselpremiere von Grants Film und die Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten von Mallory und Quinn. Doch so leicht geben sich die McCarthys und ihre Freunde nicht geschlagen. Das gilt auch für Dara und Oliver Watkins, die nach einem tragischen Verlust nach Gansett gekommen sind, um im Leuchtturm einen Neuanfang zu wagen …

Das mittelhessische Dorf Umbach neunzehn Tage nach dem Blackout. Die Einwohner haben sich mit den neuen Umständen arrangiert, erleben aber immer wieder Rückschläge. Vieles, das vor dem Stromausfall als selbstverständlich angesehen wurde, muss nun mühsam erarbeitet werden. Während Malte mit dem Dorfrat das Dorf durch die Katastrophe führt, droht ihm das Verhältnis zu seinem Sohn zu entgleiten. Jutta steuert nun Kutschen statt eine 767 und beginnt zu ahnen, wie ihr Mann wirklich ist.

A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void. FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand. Their greatest adversary, a serial killer and cultist known as the Warlock, has escaped during a prison transfer in New York. A depraved master of manipulation, he promised the end of days. He’s making good on it.