It's easy to get invested in the characters of the Edge of Collapse series. The first book focuses on Hannah, who has escaped from her kidnapper, and Liam, an ex-soldier who helps her. It's a tightly-plotted thriller with a unique premise: what if the end of the world actually saved your life? Future books add other characters from the small Michigan town, highlighting not only their struggles to survive, but also what brings them together.
In the middle of the coldest winter on record, an EMP destroys the nation’s power grid. No electricity. No cars or phones. Worst of all: No heat. The country is plunged into instant chaos.
But for twenty-six-year-old Hannah Sheridan, it’s the best day of her life. For the last five years, she’s been the captive of a sadistic psychopath—until the EMP releases the lock of her prison. B
attered but not broken, she emerges from her underground cell into a hostile winter landscape with no way to call for help, no vehicle that will drive, armed with nothing but the…
This latest installment in the "Pike Logan" military/political thriller series has a plot so timely it's almost prescient, with Pike and his team in the middle of a proxy war involving the US, China, and rare-Earth elements in India. It has a dose of Cold War intrigue, great characters, and high-stakes adventure.
The pulse-pounding new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor. World powers vie for supremacy and Pike Logan must prevent the situation escalating into all-out war.
While on a routine security assessment in India, Taskforce operator Pike Logan foils an attempted attack on a meeting between the CIA and India's intelligence service. Both agencies believe it's a minor incident, but Pike suspects that something much more sinister is at play.
After another terrorist attack, Pike begins to believe that outside powers are destabilising India for nothing more than economic gain. But those conducting the operations have their own…
The first half of the book was absolutely enthralling, packed with tense drama and emotional depictions of front-line medical care during the Vietnam War. The second half, after the main character returns home from war, drags a bit in places and fixates on some toxic relationships. Despite those rough patches, I picked it as a favorite this year for its unique take on the nurses' story, an often-overlooked part of history.
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.
“Women can be heroes, too.”
When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected…
When an EMP brings down the power grid, Dr. Anna Hastings must learn what it means to be a doctor in a world deprived of almost all technology. She joins devoted father Mark Ryan and his young daughter on a perilous journey across a thousand miles of backcountry trails.
As they face a daily struggle against both nature and their fellow survivors, Anna resolves to see them safely home. Can she hold onto her humanity in a world gone mad? This is a thrilling story of survival, found family, and how far we'll go for our loved ones.
