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Author T. L. Payne

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After a harrowing near-death experience, extreme sports athlete Ayden Miller is finally on the road to recovery. Throughout this ordeal, his girlfriend, Mia, has been a constant source of strength and unwavering support.

Accustomed to navigating the treacherous terrains of the world's most daunting natural landscapes, Ayden faces an entirely different challenge when an urgent family crisis calls him back to New York City. There, he's thrust into an unforeseen battle for survival as a devastating EMP attack cripples the city, threatening to plunge it into anarchy. 

Alongside his sister, Clara, Ayden is thrust into a desperate bid to flee Manhattan as society collapses around them. The city's descent into anarchy is a brutal reminder that nature is not the only force to be reckoned with. With every passing moment, Ayden's hopes of reuniting with Mia grow dimmer.

Back in the rugged wilderness of Wyoming, Mia and her boys confront a menacing threat as an old adversary sees the EMP-induced chaos as the perfect opportunity to settle old scores, targeting Mia and her sons as pawns in a vengeful scheme. Faced with the ultimate test of survival, Mia must draw upon her deep well of resourcefulness and courage to protect her children and make it to safety.

In this tale of love, survival, and the indomitable human spirit, Ayden and Mia's stories converge in a dramatic struggle against the forces that seek to tear them apart. Their journey is a testament to the power of love to overcome the greatest adversities and the unyielding strength found in the heart of family.

Endure the Dark

A catastrophic EMP attack.

A world plunged into darkness.

Suddenly, everything stops. No power. No transportation. No communications.

After a train derails, sending toxic plumes into the air, Serenity Jones, a tough-as-nails homeless teen, is forced to flee for her life. But she can’t outrun her past, can’t escape her loneliness, and can’t make it out of her crumbling hometown on her own.

In her search for a safe place to hunker down, Serenity stumbles upon a murderous plot that puts her in the crosshairs of very dangerous men. Serenity must forge unlikely alliances, but with a price in her head, peril at every turn, and betrayal just a whisper away, she doesn’t know who to trust.

Narrowly escaping death, she realizes she can’t hide forever, so she comes up with a bold plan to fight back.

Meanwhile, Keith, her estranged father, organizes a bold prison break to reunite with the daughter he failed and left behind. He is in a race against time to locate his little girl before the impending violence engulfs them both.

Can father and daughter find their way back to each other amidst a world in turmoil?

Panic in the Rockies

In an instant, an EMP attack plunges the nation into chaos.

Young parents Ethan and Brooke Spencer are on a romantic ski vacation in the Rockies when the lights go out, cars stall, and communications fail.

Stranded eight hundred miles from home, they are desperate to return to their four-year-old twins and are willing to do whatever it takes to reach them.

When the lights go out, ordinary parents find themselves facing the end of the world as they know it. With chaos everywhere and society collapsing before their eyes, they'll have to risk everything to get home to the people they love.

Panic in the Rockies is book one in the Desperate Age Series, a high-octane, post-apocalyptic EMP survival series..

Brink of Darkness

Survive the Collapse, Book One

The unthinkable has happened.

The World goes dark. All technology is lost.

An EMP attack takes out the power grid putting two hundred miles and a dangerous crew of hired assassins between former police detective Sam Wallace and his family.

Sam knew this assignment could be dangerous, but now he has to protect the witness and fight his way back home to his family without transportation and technology.

Lauren Wallace is one hundred miles from home picking up Sam’s son, Charlie, at the airport when the lights go out. She and thirteen-year-old Charlie have no way home. As danger spikes, they must fight for their lives. As darkness approaches, they discover nowhere is safe.

No Way Out

The lights go out. Cars stall. Communications fail.

Cities descend into chaos.

An EMP attack leaves single-father Will Fontenot and his son stranded in Houston, Texas.

It's an all-out battle for survival.

Wracked with guilt and struggling with PTSD from the accident that took his wife’s life, he’ll do whatever it takes to get his son out of the city.

But an encounter with two injured women hurls them into a deadly game of cat and mouse and puts all their lives at risk.

It’s a race against time as the plot to bring America to her knees unfolds in this fast-paced post-apocalyptic EMP survival thriller. No Way Out will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page..

 

Seeking Safety

A Super EMP plunges the nation into chaos. Cities go dark. Society begins to crumble.

Enemies of the United States launched an EMP over the midwest sending the nation back to the stone age.

For Raine Caldwell and her neighbors, it couldn't have come at a worse time. Deep into the coldest midwest winter on record, the nation is plunged into frigid darkness.

With emergency services crippled by the lack of transportation and streets snarled with stalled cars, a spark ignites and the city of St. Louis is engulfed in flames. Chaos grips the city as society spirals out of control and violence fills the streets. With her building surrounded by fire, Raine and her neighbors are forced to flee on foot onto the snow-covered streets seeking safety.

Seeking Safety is a gripping tale of an ordinary group of people as they fight to survive after an EMP plunges the nation into frigid darkness.

Would you have what it takes to survive the cold, dark, dangerous streets and make it to safety?

Turbulent

In an instant, everything stops. No lights. No phones. No transportation.

When coordinated EMP and Cyber attacks wipe out the nation’s power grid and communications, ultra marathon runner, Maddie Langston, is forced to run for her life. 

Stranded in a Chicago airport when the lights go out, Maddie is in a race against time. According to her father, she doesn’t have long before the city descends into chaos. She must leave the airport before it is too late.

Although she knows she must flee the Windy City, Maddie’s first battle is to overcome her fear of the violence she knows is coming. She’s a fighter; she just doesn’t know it yet.

The perilous journey out of the city becomes even more difficult when Maddie takes responsibility for an orphaned ten-year-old girl. Together, as chaos fills the streets, they must fight to survive in a Turbulent new world.

Would you have what it takes to survive?