Breakers

In New York, Walt Lawson is about to lose his girlfriend Vanessa. In Los Angeles, Raymond and Mia James are about to lose their house. Within days, none of it will matter. A flu strikes the Earth, nearly wiping out humanity completely. Just as the few survivors begin to adapt, they learn virus that ended humanity wasn't created by humans--it was sent from space. And the conquerers are here.

In Idaho, Ness Hook is run out of his mom's house by his bullying brother Shawn. In Redding, Tristan Carter is about to graduate college. Jobless, she'll have to move back in with her parents. Ness soon discovers his best friend dead of disease. The pandemic quickly burns through the country. But the plague is just the first step--and with the world in ruins, Ness and Tristan may make easy prey.

Raina was just a girl when the plague came. She survived. Her parents didn't. As civilization fell, she took to the ruins of Los Angeles. After two years alone, she's found and adopted by a fisherman and his wife. But her makeshift family is short-lived. A conquerer named Karslaw executes her father and takes her mother captive. Raina will stop at nothing to free her mom--and to have her revenge.

When the plague came, federal agent Ellie Colson fled into the Adirondacks with Dee, the daughter she barely knew. They began a new life as subsistence farmers, isolated from the fall of the world. In the six years since, a small community has arisen from the ashes. Dee is grown up. She's engaged to Quinn, a young man from across the lake. And she's being hunted.

It's been six years since the plague and Tristan has spent five of them in Maui with her brother Alden. Life seems quiet. Simple. Peaceful. But when she discovers an alien installation hidden in the mountains, it will mean the end of everything Tristan's built.

Once, Walt Lawson saved the world. Lately, he's lived in peaceful anonymity with his girlfriend Carrie. This morning, she's been kidnapped. Walt has a single lead: the van that took her. Its trail points him up the coast to San Jose—but the hunt will push him to the limit.

Anson's army has driven Raina from the mainland, but the war is far from over. From the safety of Catalina Island, she launches a guerrilla campaign, meaning to weaken him cut by cut. Pressured on all sides, Raina's grip on the island is slipping. But the threat of losing her people is nothing compared to the threat Ness and his alien friend Sebastian have discovered across the Pacific.

Ellie Colson is the only one who believes in the end of the world. As an agent of the Department of Advance Analysis, she's one of a handful of people who knows about the spread of a new virus—one she believes will wipe out mankind. With her bosses in denial, she flies to New York to get her ex-fiance Chip to safety. But he's already been quarantined—and so has his adopted daughter.

In the BREAKERS series, humanity faces not one apocalypse, but two: first a lethal pandemic, then a war against those who made the virus. This collection includes the first three books and is over 1000 pages (350,000 words) of post-apocalyptic survival.