All Nathan Grant wanted was solitude.

After being baptized in the blood rite of combat and spending more than a decade knee deep in gore, two events that cost him his marriage, Nathan Grant wanted to be as far away from civilization as he could be.

Then the world ended.

Faced with the harsh reality of a world now populated with psychotic cannibals, Grant did what he does best – stay at his remote cabin and drink a few beers while watching the world melt down. His way of thinking was let it happen as long as it happened far away from him.

However, fate had different plans.

Dropped into situations he preferred to avoid, the bitter, cynical, old soldier realizes people depend on him for survival. Not eager to take on that kind of responsibility and not willing to get involved, Grant wanted to ignore the world.

But duty and honor pulled him back.

Now, irritated to be involved in something that he wanted no part of yet driven to survive at all costs, he directs his anger towards those that deserve it – the infected.

When a man-made virus turns 99% of the world’s population into flesh-craving psychotics, who better to have on your side?

Welcome to the Apocalypse.

A novel in the Up From the Depths Universe.
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“What an amazing, well-written, and well-thought-out dystopian novel... appropriate for most all ages.” —@rosemarys_reads, Bookstagrammer

They promised progress. She uncovered something else.

Seventeen-year-old Maya has always known her place in the secluded village of Brookfield, where tradition shields humanity from the dangers of technology. Beyond the village lies a world ruled by AI, where towering skyscrapers and virtual realities mask a chilling truth.

When Maya’s sister falls gravely ill, a mysterious outsider offers a cure from the high-tech city—a place Maya has been taught to fear. Desperate to save her sister, she ventures beyond the safety of Brookfield and discovers a corporate empire with a terrifying plan: to redefine what it means to be human.

If you crave dystopian sci-fi with jaw-dropping twists, morally complex characters, and thought-provoking questions, Convergence will keep you turning pages late into the night.

As one reader said,"I rarely get so intrigued by something that I end up zoning out for a few moments to have a mental discussion over the morality of those implications."

Convergence is The Hunger Games meets Ex Machina—a gripping YA dystopian novel about love, humanity, and the chilling ethical dilemmas of AI.

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No-one used the ’Z’ word, they simply called them the Dead and for the last seven years they have held the world in their bloody grasp. The group of survivors at the Lanherne Convent in Cornwall did what they could to make the best of life in this brutal world and compared to many their lives were easy. But when Charlie, an ex-soldier, arrives home with a distraught stranger telling of murderous raiders, they know things are about to change. Leaving the safety of the Convent to warn the other nearby outposts, Charlie, Liz and Imran soon learn it’s not only the Dead they have to worry about and before long the very stones of Lanherne are awash with spilt blood and stolen lives.

Los Angeles is an apocalyptic wasteland.

Without orientation, Colton stumbles through the vast, deserted city. He doesn’t remember who he is and where he came from. Scavengers save his life from mutants and bring him to the only remaining inhabited area and safe Zone in former Hollywood.

There he learns that after a devastating catastrophe called The Glitch, reality shifted, allowing nightmarish creatures from another dimension to enter our world. These co-called Dark Ones feed on suffering and violence, wanting nothing less than the complete annihilation of humanity.

Colton discovers that he has extraordinary abilities and joins a league of unusual defenders: ex-cop Eric, female cyborg Bombshell and Vincent, a mighty entity from another world, disguised as a human soldier.

But the Dark Ones are evil beyond imagination and with their ice-cold enforcer, the traitor Eurydice, they are a threat nearly impossible to overcome. Cunning and ruthless, Eurydice sets a ploy in action, which leads to the destruction of the Zone’s defenses weakening the tiny community from within. It’s up to Colton and his friends to take a desperate stand against the superior enemy and save what is left of humanity from extinction.

Fast-paced, action-driven, and cinematic – an eternal fight of good vs. evil told in a way as never before.

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When There's No More Room in Hell… The Dead Will Walk the Earth.

It started small—a strange illness spreading through a New Jersey town after a minor natural disaster. Within hours, people fell sick. By the next day, they were dying. By the third, they were rising.

And by the end of the weekend, the world was gone.

Garrett Newton thought his biggest challenge would be adjusting to civilian life after a combat injury ended his military career. Instead of starting his new job, he’s running for his life as the dead flood the streets, hunting the living with mindless, relentless hunger.

With civilization collapsing around him, Garrett gathers a band of survivors and fights to escape the infected swarms overrunning the cities. But as the days drag on and hope fades, he faces a grim truth—there may be no rescue coming. No safe haven. No second chances.

The world belongs to the dead now… and the living are running out of time.

A thousand years ago the Darkness came—a terrible time of violence, fear, and social collapse when technology ran rampant.

GOLD MEDAL: Feathered Quill Book Award - 2016 - Science Fiction/Fantasy
WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Summer 2015 - Best Science Fiction
WINNER: Awesome Indies Seal of Excellence

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“But what are we without dreams?”

The vicars of the Temple of Light brought peace, ushering in an era of blessed simplicity. For ten centuries they have kept the madness at bay with “temple magic,” and by eliminating forever the rush of progress that nearly caused the destruction of everything.

Childhood friends, Orah, Nathaniel, and Thomas have always lived in the tiny village of Little Pond, longing for more from life but unwilling to challenge the rigid status quo. When they're cast into the prisons of Temple City, they discover a terrible secret that launches the three on a journey to find the forbidden keep, placing their lives in jeopardy, for a truth from the past awaits that threatens the foundation of the Temple. If they reveal that truth, they might once again release the potential of their people.

Yet they would also incur the Temple’s wrath, as it is written: “If there comes among you a prophet saying, ‘Let us return to the darkness,’ you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the Light.”

“The plot unfolds easily, swiftly, and never lets the readers' attention wane... After reading this one, it will be a real hardship to have to wait to see what happens next.” ~ Feathered Quill Book Awards

“A tightly executed first fantasy installment that champions the exploratory spirit.” ~ Kirkus Reviews

EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS the multiple award-winning first book in the extraordinary “The Seekers” series of dystopian sci-fi adventures, from the author of such award-winning greats as The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky, Along the Watchtower, and The Time That’s Given.

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