Thomas A. Watson was born on January 18, 1854, in Salem, Massachusetts, and died December 13, 1934, at more than four-score years. At the age of 13 he left school and went to work in a store. Always keenly interested in learning more and in making the most of all he learned, every new experience was to him, from his childhood on, an opening door into a larger, more beautiful and more wonderful world. This was the key to the continuous variety that gave interest to his life. In 1874 he obta...

Ian and Lance are typical All-American teenagers: good at sports, martial arts, smart, and girl crazy. Best of friends, they are inseparable, when suddenly their lives are shattered.A meteor lands in Greenland with no warning, and with it comes new life. Ian and Lance's parents are stuck in Hawaii when the riots close in on their home. With their parents halfway across the world, the boys are abruptly forced to forsake their childhood in order to survive. As the dead rise, hungry f...

The Preppers were right. And the time is now.The Blue Plague came roaring out of the Congo and into the United States—and it can't be stopped. The Infected become violently insane and impossibly strong. They're not zombies—no, that would be too easy—they're something much worse.The Infected are violent and unstoppable, but they can think. They can heal from most wounds. And worst of all—they can reproduce.Bruce, Debbie, Mike and Nancy have been prep...

Humanity is at the tipping point and nature will be its downfall. The bird flu out of China has mutated. Now able to latch on and replicate within humans, the virus will spread swiftly throughout the world. When you spread a virus before you even know you have it, everyone becomes a carrier. There is no preparation, and there is no cure. You can only hope that you are one of the few who are immune, or can survive long enough to fight.Wendy and Arthur have spent their lives in servi...

Nature is quickly reclaiming what mankind is no longer able to maintain.Animal populations of all kinds are exploding. With the majority of adults having succumbed to the virus, children in the hundreds, if not the thousands, are banding together to take care of one another. Some have become as predatory as their animal counterparts.Now that the projects on the ranch are progressing nicely with the return of their son Joseph, Arthur is reaching out to other ...

Billions are dead and millions are still dying from the virus that emerged from the depths of nature. Arthur, now reunited with his wife Wendy, is trying to strengthen the safety of the ranch as the walls of society collapse.Keeping the thought of their son Joseph in their hearts, Arthur and Wendy keep moving forward. Finding more kids every time they leave the ranch, their family continues to grow, but Nature isn't finished with the lessons of survival.

The moms have finally made it to the cabin, but what they find will impress and challenge them.While survival and safety are paramount at the cabin, trust and respect will be questioned.With more attention being brought to the coalition, Lance and Ian struggle to determine the most successfulpath in these everchanging times.Stinkers are no longer the main threat. Discoveries and ingenuity will test the boys in new and demanding ways.Can redem...

When a meteor released a bacterium that caused the dead to rise, the world Ian and Lance knew was turned upside down. Forced to flee from the sulfurous Stinkers, the teenagers narrowly avoided their own demise on the way to an isolated cabin. With their parents lost to contact, the boys must lead their battered group in survival.As the stench of death draws closer, Lance and Ian will face their most difficult challenge yet: a murderous gang of powerful thugs. With new threats loomi...

Fighting against insurmountable odds Sandy and Mary are now alone butrefuse to stop fighting to reach their kids. Hoping they have learnedenough before they lost their husbands they push on together.At the cabin Lance and Ian are expanding the coalition adding membersto help fight the stinkers and even more dangerous people. Withingenious ideas the boys push ahead to secure just a small part ofthis forsaken world.

In this Forsaken World, human kind is on the brink of total extinction. The parents of Lance and Ian have made it to the mainland, and must begin the harsh overland journey to their children. Johnathan, Sandy, and the others are unprepared for the expedition ahead. They must gather supplies and fight for every mile toward the cabin. With the Stinkers evolving and becoming harder to detect, will the parents make it home?

Surprisingly in this forsaken world, miracles can…..and do keep happening.Ian and Lance continue learning and teaching others while they gather allies to stand up with the Wild Ones and build a newer, safer reality.As family and acquaintances do what they can to assist in reaching this new oasis, the coalition is quickly realizing that dealing with normal teenager problems is definitely a thing of the past in this forsaken world.

The Caravan Man and the coalition are going above and beyond with guiding and assisting the numerous bands of children growing in the wilderness of their unpredictable environments.Adult humans are becoming a lesser threat while roving bands of adolescents are beginning to reveal more of a danger.Arthur and Wendy, along with the adoptive families at the Ranch, continue to search for a balance of peace and prosperity for all survivors in this viral misery.But there is ...