Henry spent eight years chained to a post. Exposed, starved, infected with the December Plague, and mad. During those eight years, the December Plague consumed most of the world's human population, causing the infected to become violent and cannibalistic.But Henry escaped. And now he's been Cured. He vividly remembers what has been done to him and others. He can also recall the terrible things he did while he was infected. He and his fellow survivors face a world unlike anything th...

The City was gone. Neil should have reached it years before and once he stood on the crumbling debris of its concrete wall, he couldn't help but mourn the months he'd spent fruitlessly searching for his daughter instead. The City was gone. The Cure was gone. And Elijah was a hundred miles away, struggling to care for the eight Infected they'd found alone. His friend would never forgive him.He began climbing over the rubble."Where are you going?" cried the leader of his group...

This is a tale from when the world was old. This is what happened at the end.In the earth's grave the Stone Messenger waited. Deep in its belly, the jade seed lay. The world was weary. Its very bones were hollowed out and all the wild places had shriveled away. All that had been was dying.Until Brone, the grower, called it forth.Brone was thrust into the crumbling world and pursued by the terrible beast, Ethon. Still, she guarded the seed. The breath of the world dw...

Sixteen hundred years ago, they fled Earth. Now their long journey may finally be at an end. None of them have ever walked on soil, felt rain, or breathed unrecycled air.Their resources nearly spent, they sent a last exploratory mission to a new planet. It's ideal... but they are not alone.In the struggle for survival, they must make a choice. Sacrifice another species or accept their own extinction. And time is running out.

They can't restrain themselves. They can't reason. They can't love. The Infected can only suffer and rage, attacking stranger and caregiver alike. The only release from this misery is death.Until one man, in a hospital for abandoned Infected, does the unthinkable.He recovers.The After the Cure Series:Book 1: After the Cure Book2: The Cured Book3: Krisis Book4: Poveglia Book5: The 40th DayAnd a new story in the After the Cur...

Eight years ago the December Plague swept through the human population of earth. The Infected were driven mad by the disease, becoming violent and cannibalistic, killing even those closest to them without hesitation. Stopped by a miracle cure two years later, one city struggles to remain civilized.But a new, incurable strain of the Plague has been released into the city's population. Desparate to avoid total annihilation, Nella and Frank Courtlen race to find a cure while their fri...

The Keseburg once boasted a complement of fifty thousand. Generations of hardship, space hazards and disease have whittled it down to just under thirty thousand. That was the number when a small crew of resource miners departed on a routine asteroid run three months ago. But when they return home to the ship, all traces of their friends and family are gone. The Keseburg is silent, adrift, and running out of fuel.As they search the massive ship for survivors and answers, something e...

Out of fifty thousand, only thirty-three survived the Keseburg and the alien AI called Issk'ath. Hurtling toward an unfamiliar planet with few supplies and no preparation, they believe they are the last of humanity.But Indra, trapped inside Issk'ath's colony, knows better. What she uncovers of the Keseburg's past forces her to confront the lies that governed her entire history. Her thirst for justice leads the colony down an ever darker path that risks them all.Issk'ath mus...

Outside the facility, the peace laws must be observed.For a hundred and fifty points, you can spend an hour with a designated scapegoat. No one outside will ever know what you do there. You are encouraged to shout, to complain, to cry, if it will help to calm you.For two hundred points, you may strike them. They will never strike back.Abrasions, heavy bruising, first degree burns, are five hundred. The scapegoats will endure it and they will never name you or your.....

Eight years ago, the December Plague swept through the human population of Earth. The Infected were driven mad by the disease, becoming violent and cannibalistic, killing even those closest to them without hesitation. Six years ago, a tiny surviving community of Immune humans found a cure, and the Infected began to wake up and realize what they'd done. And what had been done to them. This remastered collection of the complete first series includes newly updated and extended versions of bot...

In the penal colony of Vesta, information is currency. Not the ore the prisoners dig up to be sold far away on Earth, nor the drab chlorella sludge they subsist on. Under the watchful eye of the Shepherds-- machines of metal and math-- there are no luxuries or contraband. There is nothing to trade except memories of Earth. Information is used to trade jobs, to make allies and most importantly, to bribe the Shepherds who guard them. But Eenon Pak is not brilliant and has already been away f...

The peace laws were supposed to bring stability. The generational debt act pledged to restore prosperity. And the designated scapegoats guaranteed security outside the facilities. But those promises began failing years ago.Outside the facilities, the peace laws must be observed. It left only the scapegoats as an outlet for increasingly frustrated clients. What few protections the scapegoats had from the vicious whims of angry clients are disappearing as the facilities are sold to t...