Set 500 years in the future, a mad cow-like disease called “Bent Head” has killed off most of the U.S. population. Those remaining turn to magic and sacrifice to cleanse the Earth.

Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's fascinating literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off millions. Those who remain worship the ruins of NASA's space shuttles, and Cape Canaveral is their Mecca. Medicine and science have been rejected in favor of magic, prophecy, and blood sacrifice.

When traveling marauders led by the bloodthirsty Mr. Capulatio invade her camp, a young girl named Aurora is taken captive as his bride and forced to join his band on their journey to Cape Canaveral. As war nears, she must decide if she is willing to become her captor's queen. But then other queens emerge, some grotesque and others aggrieved, and not all are pleased with the girl's ascent. Politics and survival are at the centre of this ravishing novel.

When the lights went out in August of 2036, no one was prepared for what it would mean. No one saw it coming, and no business or government had put in place plans sufficient enough to withstand the event.

Unlike other blackouts, the event of 2036 was caused by the largest coronal mass ejection mankind had ever seen. The world went from normal, daily life to a fight for survival in a split second. No matter who you were, where you were from, or how much money you had, the collapse hit everyone.

Sean Heevy, a loving husband and father of three daughters, was like everyone else, living his daily life. His family had started a trip to Hawaii without him, while Sean was having to make a detour to Los Angeles, and that’s where he was, 36,000 feet in the air, when the lights went out.

Full of confusion, fear, and overpowering helplessness, Sean and his fellow passengers greeted the new world with a terrifying plunge from the heavens.

Upon miraculously surviving his plane’s crash, Sean could think of just one thing: Getting to his family. Though they may be on the other side of desert and ocean alike, a drive to get to them took him over. Knowing that, in a world without lights, the worst of people would come to the front; fearing that, in a world without water, resources would be fought and killed for; dreading that, in a soon-to-be merciless world, his family would be too innocent to survive, he knew he had to get to them.

Traveling over the barren deserts of Arizona, through the once-great metropolises of Phoenix and Los Angeles, and across the world’s greatest ocean, Sean knew that it was likely, if not guaranteed, that he wouldn’t make it. He was just a marketer; he was just a thirty-six-year-old dad who couldn’t even fix a sink, but love, fear, and instinct are powerful motivators to warrior through the worst of what humanity, nature, and God will throw at you.
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Elira has lived in the complex since she was two-years old. She is one of the lucky ones because the world is now a toxic and terrible place. The complex provides a safe haven for those whose parents can afford to send them there. Elira’s unique purple birthmark earns her mean comments from her peers, but it doesn’t bother her. It reminds her that everyone on earth has deformities either internal or external. Turning sixteen and moving into the glass dorm is the event she has been dreaming about for years. For the first time in her life she’ll get to meet boys her age, even if it is only through a large glass window in the school room.

"Don't let the undead pandemic force you to sacrifice your home's curb appeal."

1950s housewife, mother, and entrepreneur Suzie Baker has built a successful life and career in spite of a zombie pandemic.

While fixing a meal one evening, Suzie's husband Don calls with some unfortunate news: he won't make it home for dinner. A horde of zombies infiltrated his office building and made reaching their armory impossible, so he and his colleagues just have to wait them out in the safe room.

But as a professional homemaker and butt-kicking zombie murderess, Suzie takes it upon herself to brave the undead masses outside her reinforced house and bring Don home before the timer on the oven dings. After all, meatloaf is his favorite.

Ms. Sloane delivers a playful and dark-humored short read interspersed with silly advertisements, posters, and excerpts from Suzie's guidebook.

Five years after the Rise of the Furies, the walking dead are dying out.

Bites don’t infect . . . but anyone who dies, turns.

Skilled outdoorsman Tom Vanicek wants a future for the two children he’s protected so fiercely through five years of living hell.

When rumors reach them about reconstruction efforts in the decaying ruins of Columbus, Ohio, the family make the dangerous overland trek for the chance to begin again.

But political alliances, secret factions, doomsday cultists, and other ruthless survivors mean life in a broken city of more than 60,000 traumatized and desperate souls may prove even more dangerous than surviving in the wild.

“The freshest take on the genre in years – and without losing anything cool” – advanced reader review

“Like Game of Thrones in the zombie apocalypse” – advanced reader review

Season One features full editions of books 1 to 3 Resurrection, Reconstruction, and Resurgence bringing the first trilogy together in the one volume.

Fans of The Walking Dead and George A Romero will love After the Apocalypse because it’s a fresh new take on the zompoc genre looking at the struggles to rebuild society when daily life can turn deadly any moment. Click to buy.

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Humanity: The Universe's Perfect Lab Rat

Most infections are seen as negative – something to be eradicated immediately – until a new breed of virus was discovered. Instead of an illness, it gives the infected individual special abilities beyond imagination. The problem? Only one species exists that can't fight off the infection: humanity. Once this immune system deficiency was discovered, the entire human race became little more than test subjects in an experiment to manipulate and enhance the infections in a bid for power. That is, until a freak accident set two Infected free. And they don't intend to keep that freedom for themselves.