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The past has a way of catching up with you. The random moments that flash by, the places you don't remember being, the things you shouldn't know but do - they're all pieces of a puzzle you keep ignoring until it's too late. That's when your heart stops and you realize all the warning signs were there. But now you're trying to stare down a mad wizard, fire everywhere, hoping Lady Luck's going to help you out one last time. You promise you'll be wiser, that you'll make amends for the things you've done, but in your gut, you know the time's come.

Second book in the MOONCHILD series.

Rebecca Cordeaux knows exactly what her future will hold: she will marry Andy, her crush of the last five years. Once Andy is ready to settle down, she's sure he will discover that she is his soulmate. After several small parts on stage, Rebecca knows she can become a renowned actress. Her writing also shows promise as a future author. Robots perform most human jobs that can be automated, leaving many free to pursue their personal creative interests.

Seventeen-year-old Krista has already proven she can survive the zombie hordes. After moving to North Platte with her distant cousin General Liet to help build a wall that will keep the zombies in the West, it becomes apparent that the zombies aren't the biggest threat - some survivors are far more dangerous than Krista had ever imagined. With the help of Quinn, a survivor and fighter from the zombie-infested wildlands of the West, they free the garrison at North Platte from the power-hungry Liet. But there is a bigger battle to fight.

Seventeen-year-old Krista must quickly figure out how she's going to survive in the zombie-destroyed world. The one advantage humans have is that the zombies hate humid environments, so they're migrating west to escape its deteriorating effects. The survivors plan to construct a wall at North Platte to keep the undead out, and Krista has come to Nebraska to start a new life. Zombies aren't the only creatures she has to be cautious of - the other survivors have a dark side.

Gordon Harding didn't ask for the life he has. He didn't ask to be orphaned. He didn't ask to go through life with cancer. And he certainly didn't ask to be pulled into a future world without warning - a world where every human being is controlled by means of a medical implant. And when he learns that he's the only one who can destroy the base of operations, he's faced with an impossibly painful choice.

In this thrilling conclusion to the best-selling Meritropolis trilogy, Charley and company chase the Czar to Meritopia, a utopian city set among celestial heights in the mountains. Just to get near the city, Charley will have to brave terrifying new animal combos roaming wild among the stark wilderness, and if he succeeds in summiting the peak, there's no assurances that he will even be able to gain access. Meritopia might deign to be a perfect society based on merit, but that doesn't mean everyone's invited.

In our dystopian 22nd century future, Nanobots will be used to genetically militarily enhance the youth. Control over technology rests firmly in the hands of one corporation, the Sodalitas Corporation. Their research and development, coupled with their experiments, have changed the world. Now they're changing people. It's up to a handful of brave little kids to make sure that doesn't happen.

With airplanes falling out of the sky and all things electric rendered useless after a mysterious flash, skills instilled by Jackson's marine father move front and center. With a fierce determination to keep his 13-year-old sister, McKenzie, and nine-year-old brother, Cooper, safe, the high school freshman is compelled to leave their Irving home in the shadow of the DFW airport. Thrust into a lawless, chaotic world, he's guided by an ever-changing cryptic note that leads his growing troupe along the King's Highway in search of their grandparents.

Walk with a man who's been through hell and stumbled back into the world with a passenger laying across his shoulders. Let him remember what it was like, what the world once was, before his injuries became so great that his mind lay in tatters behind a broken face. Travel with him as he speaks to the voices of long-dead friends and to the one who chose to tour hell with him. Find Richie as he walks back through a time before the events of The Dark Roads.

Three hundred years ago, something terrifying arose and pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. Now, a small remnant - the descendants of the survivors who escaped the massacre below - lives above the clouds, on the top of a mountain. When they discover that their water supply is being poisoned Down Below, an expedition, including 17-year-old girl Icelyn Brathius, must descend and face the monsters, the Threat Below, that wiped out civilization centuries ago.

Charlie is an elfblood, descended of a conquered people brought to the brink of extinction in the aftermath of a long war. Being able to pass for human gives Charlie an advantage over most of his kind. Only those who look at his record or those he chooses to tell need ever know his secret. Growing up in an orphanage is hard enough without having to live with that stigma. When soldiers come and haul the kids off to a prison work camp, Charlie finds himself no longer able to hide the truth of what he is.

Richard just wanted a girlfriend - not the apocalypse. Richard Peak's senior year is looking painfully ordinary - fighting for position on the soccer team, his parents' constant arguing, a glaring lack of a girlfriend. He can't wait to graduate and join a soccer team overseas, preferably as far from home as possible. Then the president is assassinated and his life changes forever. As an alarming chain of nationwide terrorist attacks trigger a civil war, Richard finds himself on a dangerous journey for survival.

Things definitely got ugly in beautiful Paradise Valley when Penelope decided she was better than any of the other unicorns, most specifically, her sister Cloud. When Cloud was chosen to become the herd's next doctor, Penelope snapped. She'd just take a tiny bit of a toxic herb and feed it to the herd's doctor, her dad. An herb that only Penelope knew was in his breakfast. Luckily, she would just happened to have the cure for it. She'd save her beloved dad and finally be the cool one. What could go wrong? Plenty!

Being an Enforcer is tough. Being an undercover spy for the resistance group, Axiom, is even harder. Not having the people you love know the truth is killer. When fellow Enforcer, Marissa, pursues Finn, he discovers she has the information he's looking for. This leaves him with an impossible choice: stay true to Piper and ruin the mission or betray the girl he loves and save the city.

Zane's life has been a living hell since Franco and the Blackshirts uprising was put down. He'd been sentenced to death by hanging, but General Moto Macnamara sent him to a work camp instead, chained to Desdemona, the traitorous widow who betrayed them all! After helping her escape, the two flee to the Fringe lands, between the new society that has sprung up and the infamous badlands. Overrun by bikers, gang members, gamblers, thieves, and killers, Zane is forced to serve as Desdemona's assistant.

Eve of Tomorrow brings to a conclusion the story of Gabby and Dawn, two English sisters thrust into the forefront of rebellion in the new world. Set in a distant future laid waste by change and conflict, Gabby and Dawn discover their parents among the Americans and pledge to fight alongside their countrymen seeking safety and freedom. The Republic of Texas has been defeated, but its doomsday weapon has fallen into the wrong hands.

It's 2077. There's no apocalypse, but some things are different. Things like the weather, the Internet, and food. In 12-year-old Clare's world, blueberry is just a flavor and apples are found only in fairy tales. Then one day Clare meets Ana, an older woman who teaches her about seeds and real food. Ana tempts Clare with the notion that food exists other than the square, packaged food she has always known. With Ana's guidance, Clare and her friends learn about seeds and gardening despite suspicions that such actions are illegal.

Human extinction is inevitable - there is no going back. The pox spread quickly, within weeks everyone was dead - everyone except Harper McKenzie. Barely 15, Harper is an orphan, but a true survivor - life made her that way. An autistic loner, suffering years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her alcoholic mother, Harper seems remarkably undamaged, but can anyone hope to survive a lifetime of isolation without descending into madness?

Plucky inventor and aspiring hero Jet Chow was 10 when the world (as we know it) ended in a flood of shuffling undead bodies. The zombie plague ceased with the dispersal of a cure, but society collapsed, and humanity became an endangered species. Orphaned in the disaster, Jet survived for over three years in a prepper's off-grid shelter in a Wichita backyard. When his resources run out, he is forced into a quest for food and shelter, which turns into a search for the rumored last outpost of humanity: Echo Falls.