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Casey Pearson grew up with a doomsday-prepping father. At eighteen, tired of living an unconventional life, she left home, vowing never to return. More than a decade later, a mysterious viral outbreak changes everything, including the people it infects, turning them into zombielike creatures. It’s the end of the world, and no one saw it coming—well, except for Casey’s father. With no place left to run and danger lurking around every corner, Casey is forced to return home.

Joanna Marks always had a knack for terrible timing. After all, she did get pregnant and run off at 16. With her husband recently deceased, she and her child head back home ten years later...just in time for the invasion. Sheriff Wayne can never share how he'd known about the Chinese forces before they stormed his beloved little Florida town. The locals would think he was crazy. However, when their harmless city is put under military lockdown, he's not the only one who finds the whole invasion suspicious.

In the middle of the American Second Civil War, born with a face that is half black and half white, Jetta belongs nowhere. In New Orleans, where she lives with her grandmother after her parents' death, she is believed to be a demon come to curse them all. Everywhere in the town, the blacks - or people of any color - are being persecuted and, one day, Jetta is moved by the white military and shipped outside of the city walls to live in a closed ghetto along with the rest of New Orleans' many blacks. But Jetta is not black.

London, 2053. One of the last remaining civilizations in the world. A decade on from the first wave of human-flesh-craving monsters that wiped out most of society, Noah finds himself stepping up to lead Squad E, part of London's East Regiment, fighting back against the creatures that threaten mankind. But between battling monsters, struggling with grief, and his rivalry with another lieutenant, Noah is sinking, fast. The last thing he needs is a young, weak conscript with an attitude problem to add to his issues. Especially when he can't seem to get him out of his head.

Hundra år efter tredje världskriget ligger världen i ruiner. Men snart dyker lite hopp upp vid horisonten i form av ett toppmöte mellan alla stridande parter. Målet är att ena alla mot den gemensamma fienden - ryssarna och deras allierade. Blade och hans vänner har svurit att skydda ledarna vid det stora mötet mot mördarna som kommit för att förstöra mötet och jordens framtid. Men mördarna var villiga att dö hellre än att misslyckas och snart utvecklas toppmötet till en desperat kamp om planetens framtid.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2041 A.D. Eustace Fargo's new justice system has been in effect for eight years. The old days of waiting times and backlogs are over: judgement is quick, and sentencing is instantaneous. The old police academies have all shut down, and the new order is triumphant. But...

Scheinbar wendet sich alles zum Guten. Nick und Esther haben einen festen Platz in der Gemeinschaft gefunden und tragen ihren Teil dazu bei. Routine scheint einzukehren, und Esther fühlt sich immer sicherer. Als der Winter kommt, zieht die Gruppe vorübergehend in ein nahegelegenes Dorf, wo sie der Kälte besser trotzen können. Selbst Weihnachten wollen sie dort feiern. Alles könnte so schön sein, doch Esther fühlt sich zu sehr von den Männern bevormundet. Und dann passiert das, wovor sie die ganze Zeit schon Angst hatte.

Sie haben die Schießerei überlebt. Nicht nur Nick und Esther, sondern auch Ben und Karla, die ihnen unverhofft zur Hilfe kamen. Nun schlagen sie sich durch die Wälder, auf der Suche nach einer neuen Unterkunft. Ihre Feinde scheinen sie endlich hinter sich gelassen zu haben, doch nun stellt sich eine viel wichtigere Frage: Wie soll es weitergehen? All ihrer Besitztümer beraubt, fühlt Esther sich den anderen ausgeliefert. Und dann geben Ben und Karla auch noch zu, dass sie nicht ganz ehrlich waren. Können Nick und Esther ihnen noch trauen?

Set mostly in the north of the UK, in a near future. Women march together in protest at a government reneging on climate promises. Two glorified paper pushers in Spain help British ex-pats escape a heatwave that will soon lay waste to most of southern Europe. A twitter storm erupts in the panic of a real tempest. In the northeast, a beloved allotment sinks below the waterline. Sea levels rise, toxic rain falls and the earth poisons the food that grows in it. The elite, and winners of the life lottery, are evacuated to giant towers.

Spread across post-apocalyptic North America, the nine great cities ruled by the alien-human hybrid barons have crumbled…ushering in not defeat, but a new epoch of alien rule of Earth. But their assault is threatened by a force of extraordinary humans, the Cerberus rebels, dedicated to freeing humanity from the aeons of slavery that the alien Annunaki race have placed upon it. In Louisiana, a salvaged piece of sentient spaceship signals the beginning of the long-awaited second salvo.

Climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. Compulsory abortion of 'excess' pregnancies and mandatory contraceptive implants are now the norm. Kai is a 25-year-old 'baby reaper', working for the Ministry of Population and Family Planning. If any of her assigned families attempt to exceed their child quota, she ensures they pay the price. Until she discovers that an illegal sibling on her Ministry hit-list is hers. And to protect her parents from severe penalties, she must secretly investigate before anyone else finds out.

In her chrysalis state, Baroness Beausoleil was a betrayer, a murderer, an arch foe of mankind. Now, her metamorphosis into Overlord Lilitu poses a far greater menace. But she needs human help in a plot to overthrow her brethren and seize control of the last remaining Anunnaki stronghold on Earth. Buried deep in the sands of the Sinai, a secret port can unleash the dangerous mysteries of an alien race — unless the Cerberus rebels can outwit a she-god with an army at her disposal...and the cunning and cruelty to wrest Earth for herself.

Kane and his fellow Outlanders are thrown into a world where the nuclear war never happened but a clandestine war rages on against the sinister forces that still rule humanity. Here, this deadly spectre has openly revealed itself - as mankind's great benefactors. As Kane and his band meld with their doubles in this new reality, their quest to change history is confronted by ultimate evil.