Postapocalypticthriller Stories

The world has changed, and survival isn't guaranteed. Lumei Moreau-Rossi thought she knew speed-but now she's learning how fast fear can catch up. Shadows move where there should be none, and every choice could be her last. In a city that's falling apart, how do you outrun what's already dead?

Months after the Descent, humanity learns the Ridge isn't a sanctuary-it's a network of sleeping vaults, each holding a version of the world that might have been. When one vault wakes too early, entire cities begin to duplicate and collapse in mirror patterns aboveground. Elias Monroe, Maya Ruiz, and Lyra Sol must navigate rival underworld factions-engineers, soldiers, and prophets-who all claim ownership of the Core's new voice: The Vault Mind. The war isn't for territory. It's for which memory becomes real.

Six months after the first crossing, the world begins to drown - not in water, but in truth. As millions prepare to follow the Call, the bridges start choosing who can pass. Cities flood without warning. Storms write messages across the sky: SALT LAW. Journalist Maya Ruiz finds herself at the center of a new Exodus - one controlled not by governments, but by a sentient network learning morality through weather and memory. Beside her, Vance Calder fights to keep nations from collapsing under the weight of faith. Beneath them, Elias Monroe decodes the Ark's new language: storms spelling commandments for a world that forgot how to listen. The second chapter in The Underworld Protocol Saga unravels what happens when survival becomes scripture... and the sky decides what deserves to live.