The destination of the Ancients following the exodus was a place called Washington State. Davis was confident the Ancients were close but not there. We had to find them. They hadn’t ever been outside their city, and were roaming around, lost. I could feel it.
Most of the residents of Angeles City were on boats. Tanner was with them.
I was scared to face Tanner. He harbored ill feelings for me over my marriage to Iry and our child. I could only imagine how he would feel when he found out I had turned.
There was so much to consider. We were all refugees and at the beginning of a new journey. The Straits were still populated with humans that relied heavily on the Ancients. We had to organize, regroup, prepare.
Snake commented that the king could return me to my human form. I wasn’t sure I wanted that, or if being a human Mare was best. In my Ancient form I was more powerful, and we needed that.
Anubis was a God. He wasn’t dead, he merely moved from this realm and more than likely would rebuild his army. He’d do it differently. He wanted this world once and he’d come for us again.
We were but one sector of the world; we conquered and secured it.
There were still millions of Savages out there and undoubtedly they weren’t giving up. Neither was Anubis.
We had to recharge, rebuild, and rethink our strategy.
We had been victorious in our battle, but a single battle was all it was. One of many to come.
It wasn’t the end, it was the beginning.
The real war had just begun.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jacqueline Druga is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. She is a prolific writer and filmmaker. Her published works include genres of all types, but favors post-apocalypse and apocalypse writing. Currently, she resides in a small town south of Pittsburgh, where not only is she a writer, but devotes a good bit of her time enjoying her grandchildren.
PERMUTED PRESS CATALOG
A.C. Thorne
Still Alive: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel
Light bends around the edges of a cloaked elliptical sphere as it glides down unnoticed and attaches to a freeway overpass during rush hour. It begins spraying a green mist that wafts down across all lanes of traffic. A few begin to notice the mist but even they are oblivious to what’s about to happen.
A. C. Thorne
Still Alive 2: Red Versus Green
We survived the apocalypse in the first book only to learn that the engineers of the zombie virus are not of this world. Now Ceres is torn away from love to travel yet further down the rabbit hole on a journey of unexpected revelations.
Time is running out for the survival of the human race and the odds are stacked heavily against the unstable alliance known as CATO.
A. Giacomi
Eve Brenner: Zombie Girl (The Zombie Girl Saga Book 1)
Eve used to be an ordinary girl, from an ordinary town, with ordinary dreams, but her dreams rapidly turn into nightmares when one mistake leaves her a little less than human and a lot less average.
Eve’s not quite the same girl she used to be. She desperately clings to her humanity as new desires, new abilities, and new urges take over with each passing day.
Turns out living was the easy part.
A. Giacomi
Eve Brenner: Zombie Agent (The Zombie Girl Saga Book 1)
In the second installment of The Zombie Girl Saga, Eve teams up with CSIS to find out more about the Azrael Virus coursing through her veins. Eve is quickly thrown into fieldwork to stop the spread of a virus that is spreading silently on a global level. She might be the only hope the world has, but she’s running out of time.
Aaron Ross Powell
The Hole
In just two weeks, a horrific plague raged across the planet—driving its victims insane before killing them. Driven by a cryptic message, two survivors set out on an unimaginable journey. To survive, they must fight for their lives—against the crazies, but also sinister forces and long hidden menaces—and uncover the secret of those driven mad and the plague that spawned them.
Al Halsey
Hellgate, Montana
There are more than just demons and witches that haunt the daylight and the dark.
You mess with Jeremiah Brandt you are asking for a whole heap of trouble, and if you are an unnatural messing with Jeremiah Brandt you’re aiming for more trouble than you can handle in your entire immortal life.
Bill Braddock
Brew
Ever been to a big college town on a football Saturday night? Loud drunks glut the streets, swaggering about in roaring, leering, laughing packs, like sailors on shore leave. These nights crackle with a dark energy born of incongruity; for beneath all that smiling and singing sprawls a bedrock of malice. Hard-partying College Heights swaps beer pong and karaoke for arson, murder, and cannibalism.
Bowie Ibarra
Down the Road: The Fall of Austin
Officer Mike Runyard of the Austin Police Department and his partner, Derek Tucker, are stuck in the middle of a city overrun with the living dead, and a wave of criminals have just escaped from the jail into the streets of Austin. Meanwhile, a military Humvee traveling down IH-35, headed into the zombie-ridden city, holds the key to a plan meant to turn the tide in the fight.
Bowie Ibarra
Down the Road: On the Last Day
The dead are rising to devour the living. Martial law has been declared. A small town’s citizens rally against the zombies and secure their borders. But a global peacekeeping force ed by a ruthless commander is sweeping toward town. They are determined to secure the land on their own terms, and establish a new, harsh government for the plague-ravaged nation.
Brad Munson
Creatures of the Storm (The Rain Triptych Book 1)
It never rains in Dos Hermanos, California…until the sky opens up and it will not stop. Suddenly 3,000 people are fighting for their lives against a massive flash flood. And then, on the first night, a thousand creatures — skinless, eyeless, all cutting edges and claws — come out of the storm to kill them all. Who will live? Who will die? And what is the secret hiding inside the Rain?
Brad Munson
WolfCop: Fleshmob
Lou Garou–half man, half wolf, all WolfCop–appears in a weird new road-trippin' adventure, filled with babes, booze, and all-out action!
Breanna Bright
In the End
The house on Drunk Horse road has everything: a good price, Victorian charm, a secret passage, and a rich history. But it also has a secret. Something watches from the shadows, and it is more than a ghostly haunting. The young owners, Alice and Thursday, struggle to defeat the creature, but victory comes with sacrifice, especially when Death itself intervenes.
Brendan Deneen
The Ninth Circle
When Dan, 16, runs away from a terrible home life to join a circus, he has no idea what he’s getting himself into. Based on Dante’s Inferno, THE NINTH CIRCLE follows a young man’s coming-of-age as he travels with the circus through nine states. With the Ringmaster as his guide, Dan finds himself falling in love with the Bearded Lady but hated by almost everyone else, including the Strong Man, the Lion Tamers and The Sword Swallower. Meanwhile, he discovers that the performers have uncanny abilities and dark secrets, especially the person who’s looking to destroy the circus from within.
Brian P. Easton
Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter
After his mother is butchered by a werewolf, Sylvester James is taken in by a Cheyenne mystic. The boy trains to be a werewolf hunter, learning to block out pain, stalk, fight, and kill. As Sylvester sacrifices himself to the hunt, his hatred has become a monster all its own. As he follows his vendetta into the outlands of the occult, he learns it takes more than silver bullets to kill a werewolf.
Brian P. Easton
Heart of Scars (Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter Book 2)
The Beast has taken just about everything it can from Sylvester Logan James, and for twenty years h
e has waged his war with silver bullets and a perfect willingness to die. But fighting monsters poses danger beyond death. He contends with not just the ancient werewolf Peter Stubbe, the cannibalistic demon Windigo, and secret cartels, but with his own newfound fear of damnation.
Brian P. Easton
The Lineage (Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter Book 3)
When a werewolf delivers the severed heads of two colleagues, Sylvester James finds himself embroiled in an ancient grudge between the First Beast Prince and the seven Wolves. Baited by a trail of dead werewolves, Sylvester journeys across the world on the most important hunt of his life, one that will lead him to the very lair of the Beast–and the werewolf who was once his mother.
Brian Parker
Enduring Armageddon
From the ruins of the irradiated wastes emerge bloodthirsty scavengers and a dangerous new breed of creature known as the Changed. Some survivors call them zombies, others say that they’re mutants–whatever they truly are, their sole desire is to murder and eat those unaffected. A small group of survivors from Illinois attempts to escape further south away from the deepening cold of the nuclear winter. Along the way, they discover that the true monsters are not the Changed–the enemy to fear most is their fellow man.
Briar Lee Mitchell
Big Ass Shark
MISTY WITLOW heads to the beach near Los Angeles to enjoy the sun and videotape a greeting for her mother. An enormous shark, pale white in color, surfaces in a deep channel near her. The school bus sized beast rams the rocks she is standing on, knocking a tooth loose into the water. She retrieves the hand-sized tooth, and convinces a skeptical scientist this supposedly extinct creature is alive.
Briar Lee Mitchell
Dark Lights
After a hurricane struck Andros Island in the Bahamas in 1958, a strange thing happened at the Point-du-Lac logging camp in the north. Everything died. A group of scientists is sent to examine the diseased and ravaged place in the middle of the jungle. They discover a small pit filled with the cannibalized remains of several humans–and soon members of the team start to die under mysterious and violent circumstances. What is the grisly menace that prevents anything from surviving at the Point-du-Lac logging camp in the Bahamas?
Briar Lee Mitchell
Walking on Mars 1: Destination Vostok
At the Russian base, Vostok, located in the coldest spot in Antarctica, scientists are drilling into a subterranean lake, located 3000 feet below the frozen surface. These scientists are testing elaborate drilling gear destined for eventual use on Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
Briar Lee Mitchell
Walking on Mars Serial One: Bones of Ohio (From the Journals of Samantha Bloodworth)
While visiting the paleontology dig being run by famous scientist Dr. Randall Tikken, Sam learns that he has made an even more amazing discovery. He at first does not want to reveal the find until Sam discovers him late at night near the dig site. Tikken finally reveals he has proof that survivors from the doomed civilization of Atlantis had been here.
Briar Lee Mitchell
Walking on Mars Serial Two: Cookoff on Ice (From the Journals of Samantha Bloodworth)
Samantha Bloodworth is still stationed in Antarctica, waiting for her next writing assignment. She smells a fun story being cooked up when some of the guys challenge the neighboring New Zealanders’ to a chili cook-off. Just as the first batch of chili is being judged, an explosion occurs near the party. The volcano that looms over McMurdo has chosen this unfortunate time to lob some lava bombs.
Briar Lee Mitchell
Walking on Mars Serial Three: General Grant Beneath the Waves (From the Journals of Samantha Bloodworth)
Journalist Samantha ‘Sam’ Bloodworth, with the help of the Navy, hopes to bring up sunken treasure off New Zealand. The only problem is, something beneath the waves doesn’t want them to succeed.
Briar Lee Mitchell
Walking on Mars Serial Four: The Tin Kite (From the Journals of Samantha Bloodworth)
Freezing and trapped in a deep crevasse in Antarctica, journalist Samantha Bloodworth and her companion are near death. Then the famed explorer Shackelton seems to appear to help her survive against the odds.
Briar Lee Mitchell
Walking on Mars Serial Five: Mr. X (From the Journals of Samantha Bloodworth)
Journalist Samantha “Sam” Bloodworth is keen to unravel the mystery of the man embedded in the ice, dubbed Mr. X–only to discover she may suffer the same fate.
Briar Lee Mitchell
Walking on Mars Serial Six: Pink Ice (From the Journals of Samantha Bloodworth)
Flaviu has received death threats and those who oppose his stunt arrive to try and stop him. Soon, Flaviu and Sam have more to worry about then how the event goes off–first they have to survive.
Briar Lee Mitchell
Walking on Mars Serial Seven: Into the Dark (From the Journals of Samantha Bloodworth)
At first, the Shellerby Research Facility, built in the late 1950s, seemed no different than the other dozens of research facilities that dot Antarctica. But after two suicides and a mysterious plane crash, Shellerby was shut down. Captain Riley Scott and journalist Samantha “Sam" Bloodworth arrive to reclaim the station. Separated from her friends, Sam is pursued by a malevolent, unseen entity.
Bryan Hall
Containment Room 7
In a far corner of space, orbiting a massive black hole, a research ship discovers a strange asteroid. Then the killing begins, and a cult rises declaring the rock their god. A small group of survivors face an army of undead crew members, the reanimated corpses of hundreds of failed genetic experiments, the murderous cult, and—worst of all—the rapidly evolving creature in containment room 7.
Bryon Morrigan
Acheron
Captain Nate Leathers thought being a soldier on the front line in Iraq was hard. When he’s thrown in a dungeon by insurgents, he can’t imagine things can get any worse. But when he escapes, Leathers finds the city under siege from nightmare creatures far more horrific than any terrorist. Walking corpses. Tentacled beasts. Giant slithering things. Ancient creatures risen from the depths.
Bryon Morrigan
The Desert
Give up trying to leave. There’s no way out.
Those are the final words in a journal left by the last apparent survivor of a platoon that disappear in Iraq. Years later, two soldiers realize that what happened to the "Lost Platoon" is now happening to them. Now they must confront the horrifying creatures responsible for their misfortune, or risk the same fate as that of the soldiers before them.
C. Dulaney
The Plan (Roads Less Traveled Book 1)
Ask yourself this: If the dead rise tomorrow, are you ready? Do you have a plan? Kasey, a strong-willed loner, has something she calls The Zombie Plan. But every plan has its weaknesses, and a freight train of tragedy is bearing down on Kasey and her friends. In the darkness that follows, Kasey’s Plan slowly unravels: friends lost, family taken, their stronghold reduced to ashes.
C. Dulaney
Murphy's Law (Roads Less Traveled Book 2)
Kasey and the gang were held together by a set of rules, their Zombie Plan. It kept them alive through the beginning of the End. But when the chaos faded, they became careless, and Murphy’s Law decided to pay a long-overdue visit. Now the group is broken and scattered with no refuge in sight. Those remaining must make their way across West Virginia in search of those who were stolen from them.
C. Dulaney
Shades of Gray (Roads Less Traveled Book 3)
Kasey and the gang have come full circle through the crumbling world. Working for the National Guard, they realize old friends and fellow survivors are disappearing. When the missing start to reappear as walking corpses, the group sets out on another journey to discover the truth. Their answers wait in the West Virginia Command Center.
C. Dulaney
Phoenix: A Roads Less Traveled Novel
Brad and his team know the end is coming and they know who is behind it. Like his old friend, Kasey, Brad thinks he has a Plan. A way to stop the men and women who are trying to destroy every single human being on the planet.Only those who are Special will be spared, and only they will be left to fight for the fate of their kind. Except we already know that even the best-laid plans always unravel.
Carlos Sisi
The Wanderers
In the city of Malaga thirty survivors have built a shelter to keep out the dead wandering the streets. One of the survivors casts handwritten notes from the penthouse into the dead-filled streets below. But a mad priest is the only living soul to find these cries for help. And now he knows precisely where to find the camp and carry out his morbid judgment.
Carrie Vaccaro Nelkin
Snare
When Fortune accepts a housesitting job in brownstone Brooklyn, she becomes embroiled in the building’s grisly history that ensnares the residents and lures back a serial killer with supernatural connections. Fortune is forced to confront both the killer and a larger, nonhuman evil.
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