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This author's books have over 4,500 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon Nine Years after, the first of this series was selected by Amazon Kindle Reader's in 2023 It was also named a "Book to read" by Amazon editors Most post-apocalyptic novels deal with the immediate aftermath and they are gory. This one is different. I wondered about what happens long after "the day." A different take on an old theme, but still in the universe of the "Years After" series. This one is long time later. The main character was born small and weak, so faces the world from that viewpoint instead of being the ...

"Nine Years After" of this series was selected and is included in the Prime Reading program on Amazon.com from 1-Dec-2022 to 1-Mar-2023. Earned a "Book to Read" recommendation. This author's books have over 4,500 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon From the safety of a government Deep Hole Sanctuary, three perpetual troublemakers are exiled to the surface. Their expectations are to find the remnants of a nuclear holocaust, radiated creatures, and worse. What they actually find is far different. Unexpected and surprise events drive their futures. How the characters handle each crisis, and ...

A heavy equipment operator discovers an artificial cave while cutting blocks from a limestone quarry. He plans to investigate alone, but an archaeology student bullies him into letting her join his underground foray. The two declare an uneasy truce when an ancient installation that predates humans unexpectedly sends them through a wormhole to another planet—one with creatures from Earth’s past.

This author's books have over 4,500 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon Nine Years after, the first of this series was selected by Amazon Kindle Reader's in 2023 It was also named a "Book to read" by Amazon editors As civilization crumbles, a few people attempt their individual survival by whatever means they can. Preppers stock and prepare for their bleak futures, while others have been selected by the government to occupy secretly constructed vast below-ground sanctuaries. The powerful, wealthy, and top echelon of society are to be transported to the sanctuaries, where they might exist ...

This author has over 4,500 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon NOTE* The undersea volcano in this story is real and began building for an eruption one year after this book was published. This entire 2030 A.D. series can be read in any order. The situation of massive volcano eruptions near where they live is the same, but the locations and characters live far apart. How they deal with others are the center of the stories. Friends turn on friends, strangers help or hinder, but all are determined to survive in a new world without electric power, government, or safety. In Oregon there exists ...

This book begins in Denver. Planes fall from the sky, volcanic ash fills the air, and three people are stuck on the side of a mountain. How they survive the first few days and the steps they take can kill them, or not. Mistakes are made. Relationships tested. Unexpected twists and turns keep the listener engaged.

This author has over 4,500 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon On the first day in the book, a stranger waits for the store to open. He has a gun. Things go downhill from there. Volcanoes erupt in the western part of the United States. Ash spreads to the rest of the country, darkening the sky, gumming engines, disrupting the power grid, grounding airplanes, and the world falls apart. For a single mother and her son, it was not unexpected. If it was not volcanoes, she believed it would have been worldwide computer attacks, an invasion by an enemy country, a new virus, or economic collapse....

In a time when dragons are thought to be a myth, Damon finds that there may be one remaining, one last great secret. The answers lie at the other end of the kingdom of Dire. However, there is more than distance and the faint possibility of a dragon, there is also a king who cannot rule, people who are hiding the truth, and others who use their powers for personal gain. The story twists and turns, never taking the listener where expected, and it does so with a touch of sharp wit and compassion.

From the safety of the Deep Hole Sanctuary, two are sent to the surface for the first time in nine years. Rumors, tales, and expectations for the world above are that they will find a desolate wasteland filled with mutated animals and bands of roving hoards of starving people.

This author has over 4,500 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon Anna, the fast-talking clever girl from Gray's Story, learns of the deception and dangers across the Endless Sea. She understands war is coming but knows she can help her people. Anna sails to the land of Breslau and gather information to help win the war, but she needs help herself--a lot of it. Failure may mean the end of the Dragon Clan. Raymer, who bonded with a red dragon in an earlier book agrees to travel with her and take his dragon with them. Perhaps between them they can prevent a war--or start one. What Amazon ...

Clary's books have over forty-five hundred four and five-star ratings. Two ugly baby dragons and a pair of likable irreverent humans fill this adventure that builds to the last page while drawing the reader into situations not quite like any other book about dragons. Maybe the people who interact with dragons are not always those who are brave and honorable. Fighting on the losing side of a war is bad enough. getting stuck babysitting a pair of infant dragons in a foreign land is worse. There must be a way to turn the situation in their favor...

A post-apocalyptic pandemic novel set in the Pacific Northwest that is unlike any other. The main character is an introverted recluse who tries to survive. He is computer-smart, but the internet and computers have died. He must change.

Five years after the bombs fell and the privileged descended into secretly constructed sanctuaries, five people want out. The problem is that there has been no contact with the world outside and what they find may be a desolate landscape filled with radiation and deadly creatures. Or worse. However, after five years of living in a small underground sanctuary, perhaps that is preferable to the dull existence below. Pen, short for Penelope, is not your usual heroine. Her mouth is her worst enemy and she does not back down.

Young Mica Silverthorne is dragged from his home to fight in the Three Border Wars for his king. Mica is not like the others recruits. He is not the son of nobility or a wealthy merchant, but from a small village where they raise pigs. It's soon said he's a willing killer that wields a knife like an assassin.

Her finger can ignite a magical flame. But only male mages deal with elemental magic such as fire, and all mages are men. Hannah is a young woman. The mage who is whispered to be her father is returning, and she intends to display her flame where he can see it so he will know she is his daughter.

All Gareth must do is steal a dragon's egg and live to tell about it. He is warned by night whispers to flee from his tiny mountain village of Dun Mare. The stolen egg of a dragon will pay his way, if he manages to live long enough to sell it. However, there are forces against him far beyond his understanding. All he believes he knows about his life and home is false, but the egg of the black dragon is the key.

Raymer, a member of the Raging Mountain family, has been locked in King Ember's Summer Palace dungeon for a year. His only crime is being born of the Dragon Clan. The cell next to him holds an emissary of a rival kingdom, an irreverent giant of a man named Quint. Together they plan a daring escape, but once free they find that only the two of them can prevent a war and save innocent lives.

A orphan named Camilla has the birthmark of the Dragon Clan - an intricate design of a dragon flowing from her hip to the ugly head peering over her shoulder. She knows enough to conceal it from all, but not why. When dragons fly nearby the design on her back tingles and stings. She's told that one day she will call down dragons - whatever that means, but first she must avoid the assassins sent by the king. He has already murdered her family and she must escape and find sanctuary.

This author has over 4,500 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon Shell has heard the night whispers of a dragon calling to him for a year before he leaves his home in the grasslands to follow them. His goals are to help with the war effort, and to find a wife. Perhaps even Camilla, the girl he has heard so much about. On his journey, he meets another traveler and together, their plans change. The arrival of a red dragon changes things even more, but Shell must do what is right. At the port city of Fleming, he finds he missed the ship sailing to Breslau with the other of the Dragon Clan ...

Hannah and her new friend, Sage, escape to the port city of Indore where they attempt to escape the pursuers—but the young mage follows. Hannah must elude him and others, as well as learn more of her craft so she can return to the Kingdom of Wren and claim her rightful inheritance—and seek revenge.