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Threadbare Sky

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When Nora Wren Bennett escaped the bunker her captor had trapped her in for months, she thought freedom would mean safety. Instead, she steps into a world unraveling - a world where the dead don't stay dead and survival means sacrifice.

Haunted by the memories of a life stolen from her, Nora sets out across the devastated remnants of Tennessee in a desperate search for the family she lost. With nothing but a battered notebook, a stolen knife, and the song of her father echoing in her heart, she fights to reclaim a piece of herself.

But survival is never simple.

When Nora crosses paths with Reid Garrison - a former soldier hardened by loss and guilt - she is forced to confront more than just the living dead. Reid's past is as bloodstained as the roads they travel, and his loyalty is the one thing more dangerous than the monsters hunting them.

Mistrust runs deep between them, but as the world closes in, Nora and Reid find themselves bound by shared scars and the relentless will to live. Together, they navigate a landscape of broken towns, dangerous survivors, and the fragile hope that something good might still remain.

In a world where everything has been stripped away, they must ask themselves:
When the world comes to an end, what's left worth saving?All Rights Reserved

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Desolation ✔️ by fictional_reality96

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear." *** After a virus outbreak leaves the world in total destruction, Scarlett Evans is one of the few survivors left. Her only home was swallowed in an explosion during a war with the infected. The Safe House turned out to not be so safe. All her family is gone. And Carter, the one friend who promised to never leave her side, vanished from the Safe House without a trace. Now, she has a goal: find Ostford, the new Safe House. Could Carter have gone there without her? And why did he leave her behind to begin with? In Desolation, Scarlett will have to learn to trust those she needs most, hold on to a future gradually unraveling, and let go of the things that are holding her back. And learn that sometimes, going forward isn't all that's left to hold on to.

The Hollowing by MartinNeue

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Dark Sunlight by QueenLudoLaine

Shane thought her biggest worry was passing her Culinary Anthropology exams, not surviving the end of the world. A quick trip for breakfast sandwiches spirals into chaos when a sudden outbreak tears through her neighborhood, turning a party into a massacre. Stranded in her family's empty house with Malikai, his chaotic brother Sylvester, and Dom-the only survivors nearby-Shane is forced to balance trust, danger, and her own resourcefulness. Food preservation, barricades, and uneasy alliances become her new normal, but the infected outside aren't the only threat. Secrets, betrayals, and shifting loyalties inside the house may be just as deadly. Survival will demand more than strength-it'll demand trust, experiments, and risking her heart in a collapsing world. Got your rations and security blanket? Good. You might just need them for this one...

When the World Went Quiet by graciejrogers

The cities are gone. The governments fell. The lucky died fast. Grace Selene has lost everything-the husband she loved, the child she couldn't save, the world she once understood. All that remains is the road, her healer's pack, and a promise to keep moving. When a strange, luminous moss heals a wound that should have killed her, Grace begins to suspect the world isn't finished with her yet. Power hums beneath her skin-wild, ancient, and impossible. It could save what's left of humanity...or destroy her. Across the ashes of the Midwest, rumors whisper of a place called Haven-a settlement where fires still burn through the night. Grace means to find it, or die trying. On the same road walks Steve Rogers, a soldier burdened by ghosts of his own. Trained to protect and born to lead, he's searching for something worth defending again. When their paths cross, survival stops being a solitary act-and becomes a promise neither of them expected to make. In a land where mercy is rarer than sunlight, When the World Went Quiet begins the story of what comes after the end-of healing, hope, and the kind of love that can survive the silence. ⚠️This is not a sunshine story. It is dark and gritty, while the characters will eventually get their happily ever after it is not a story for the faint of heart. There is mention of sexual assault, rape, abuse, forced pregnancy , abortions, murder and death. Read with caution ⚠️

The Risks by EmJayRey

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The end came quietly. Survival didn't. Seth walks alone now - through ruins and silence, through the bones of a world that forgot how to live. The dead outnumber the living, and the ones who've survived have learned to be colder than winter steel. But no matter how far he goes, memory follows. Of who he was, of everything he lost. Of the faces that haunt his sleep and the blood that never quite washed off. In a world that punishes kindness and buries the weak, Seth isn't searching for hope. He's just trying not to fall apart. But sometimes, the road doesn't care what you want. Sometimes, it gives you someone to protect - whether you're ready or not. Because even a broken man has one last fight left in him. ___ Note : All That Follows is a sequel to All That Remains. It carries echoes, secrets, and scars from what came before. While it can be read on its own, within these pages lie spoilers, fragments of a past some readers may wish to discover firsthand. Step forward as you will, but know the ghosts are watching.

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The Dead and the Restless (Completed with undergoing editing) by A_Story_Spoken

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