Marcus Richardson

The Cantrells have survived everything the world threw at them since the lights went out, but what’s coming will test each and every one of the group, pushing them to their very limits....

When the lights go out, darkness rises. Forced to make a choice between abandoning the people who gave them shelter or saving their own lives, Kate and the group bet on themselves. They hatch a daring escape plan, involving sympathetic locals who aren’t as docile as their militia overlords...

Sometimes a helping hand isn’t so helpful.... Jay Cantrell, worried that his hands, injured in their trek across the Midwest (season 1), are infected, tries to keep the secret from his group. They’d survived the journey from Illinois to Indiana, returned home to Illinois, and crossed the...

Jay, Leah, and Kate are all tested and pushed to their limits...but will they go too far? Jay is left without a car again when his plans fall apart, and he finds himself on foot, hiking through winter in Indiana to reach his daughter. Exhausted, wounded, and alone, Jay must find the will to...

Awakened before dawn one morning in mid-December by northern lights that blanket the sky - in central Illinois - Jay's world changes in the blink of an eye....

Reporter Danny Roberts has a front row seat to the end of the world. Fear and racism run rampant in the face of the bio-weapon crisis. Danny watches as the sleepy town of Brikston, Kentucky descends into a waking nightmare for one stranger trying to get home. There is more to the story - Danny's...

Some fires can't be contained. America is on the brink of collapse. The Council has revealed itself to be the driving force behind the bio-weapon that has unleashed The Pandemic upon the world once again. There's only one problem - the Council is now public enemy number one. Cooper Braaten and...

Ten years after the deadliest pandemic in human history, the same devastating strain of influenza strikes America without warning. One man holds the key to stopping the deadly outbreak in its tracks and the governments of the world - including his own - will stop at nothing to find him. From Los...

The complete opening trilogy, plus the Wildfire prequel story: The Source. Watch events unfold that shaped the characters in later books and witness the rise of Jayne Renolds....

Nature abhors static and seeks change, for better or worse. The Pandemic strain is mutating in ways no one can predict, and time is running out....

Chad Huntley can’t get sick. When an influenza pandemic kills almost everyone around him, he finds himself on the run, hunted by soldiers and mercenaries, chased across a wasteland of empty houses and dying suburbs as he tries to escape Fort Worth....