Bone And Cinder: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller (Zapheads Book 1) (21 page)

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After #0: First Light

After #1: The Shock

After #2: The Echo

After #3: Milepost 291

After#4: Whiteout

After #5: Red Scare

After #6: Dying Light

And see what happens five years later!

 

NEXT #1: AFTERBURN

 

Five years after a devastating solar storm wipes out civilization and spawns a strange race of mutants, Rachel Wheeler and her misfit family must choose whether to hide away or fight to join other survivors.

As their food supply dwindles inside their bunker, radiation from abandoned nuclear plants is altering the world around them. Not only are the mutants building their own cities and weapons, the remaining dregs of the U.S. military are massing for an attack. In this decaying environment, hostile new creatures crawl out from the crevices and up from the waterways to threaten them all.

But as a half-mutant, Rachel’s choice isn’t as simple as mere survival—the mutant way of life might be more promising than anything humans could hope to restore. And Rachel’s next decision could tear apart her family and the entire world.

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

 

“One of the most thrilling writers working today. Miss him at your peril.” – Blake Crouch, The Wayward Pines Trilogy

 

Scott Nicholson
is the international bestselling author of more than 20 thrillers, including
The Home, McFall, Disintegration, Liquid Fear, Speed Dating with the Dead
, and the
After
post-apocalyptic series. His books have appeared in the Kindle Top 100 more than a dozen times in five different countries. Visit his website at
www.AuthorScottNicholson.com
or his
Amazon Author Central
page

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Joshua Simcox
is a freelance
writer living in the mountains of western North Carolina. He loves horror movies, great barbeque, and lives with his wife Pamela and beloved black cat Salem. He is the co-author of
October Dark: A Phineas Trout/Macklin Dailey Thriller
with J.A. Konrath. If you enjoyed Zapheads #1: Bone and Cinder, he’d love to hear from you at
[email protected]
.

 

VIEW OTHER KINDLE BOOKS BY SCOTT NICHOLSON
:

 

Novels

After #0: First Light

After #1: The Shock

After #2: The Echo

After #3: Milepost 291

After#4: Whiteout

After #5: Red Scare

After #6: Dying Light

Next #1: Afterburn

Next #2: Earth Zero

Next #3: Radiophobia

Next #4: Directive 17

Next #5: Crucible

Next #6: Half Life

Zapheads #1: Bone and Cinder

Zapheads #2:
Scars and Ashes

Zapheads #3:
Blood and Frost

The Scarecrow
(Solom #1)

The Narrow Gate
(Solom #2)

The Preacher (Solom #3)

The Home

McFall

Creative Spirit

Disintegration

The Red Church

Speed Dating with the Dead

The Skull Ring

Drummer Boy

The Harvest

Kiss Me or Die

Liquid Fear

Chronic Fear

Cursed
(with J.R. Rain)

Bad Blood
(with J.R. Rain & H.T. Night)

Spider Web
(with J.R. Rain)

Spider Bite
(with J.R. Rain)

Ghost College
(with J.R. Rain)

The Vampire Club
(with J.R. Rain)

Meat Camp
(with J.T. Warren)

Playin’ Possum
(with Milton Bagby)

October Girls

Crime Beat

The Dead Love Longer

Fangs In Vain

Burial to Follow

Story
Collections

Curtains

Flowers

Ashes

The First

Zombie Bits

Head Cases

Gateway Drug

Missing Pieces

These Things Happened

American Horror

Children’s Books

If I Were Your Monster
(with Lee Davis)

Too Many Witches
(with Lee Davis)

Ida Claire
(with Lee Davis)

Duncan the Punkin
(with Sergio Castro)

Bad Day for Balloons
(with Sergio Castro)

VIEW OTHER U.K. KINDLE BOOKS BY SCOTT NICHOLSON

Next #1: Afterburn

Next #2: Earth Zero

Next #3: Radiophobia

Next #4: Directive 17

Next #5: Crucible

Next #6: Half Life

After: First Light

After #1: The Shock

After #2: The Echo

After: #3: Milepost 291

After #4: Whiteout

After #5: Red Scare

After #6: Dying Light

The Scarecrow
(Solom #1)

The Narrow Gate
(Solom #2)

The Preacher (Solom #3)

Zapheads #1: Bone and Cinder

Zapheads #2:
Scars and Ashes

Zapheads #3:
Blood and Frost

McFall

Liquid Fear

Chronic Fear

Creative Spirit

The Home

The Gorge

Disintegration

The Red Church

Speed Dating with the Dead

The Skull Ring

Drummer Boy

The Harvest

Kiss Me or Die

Cursed
(with J.R. Rain)

Ghost College
(with J.R. Rain)

The Vampire Club
(with J.R. Rain)

Bad Blood
(with J.R. Rain & H.T. Night)

Spider Web
(with J.R. Rain)

Spider Bite (with J.R. Rain)

Meat Camp
(with J.T. Warren)

Playin’ Possum
(with Milton Bagby)

October Girls

Crime Beat

The Dead Love Longer

Burial to Follow

Fangs In Vain

 

Collections

Curtains

Flowers

Ashes

The First

Zombie Bits

Head Cases

Gateway Drug

Missing Pieces

These Things Happened

 

Children’s Books

Bad Day for Balloons
(with Sergio Castro)

If I Were Your Monster
(with Lee Davis)

Duncan the Punkin
(with Sergio Castro)

Too Many Witches
(with Lee Davis)

Ida Claire
(with Lee Davis)

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My deepest gratitude to the following: God, Pamela, my family, Dr. Michael Joslin, Dr. John Keener, Rachel Chrane, Craig Deininger and the many other amazing, gracious supportive people with whom I crossed paths at Lees-McRae College.  Also thanks to Scott Nicholson and Joe Konrath for taking a chance on an unproven talent and providing assistance and encouragement along the way. And to Salem, my rescue cat, for companionship during all those long hours spent pounding away on my laptop.—J.S.

 

Thanks to beta readers Don Cranford, Frank Pero, Pamela Mullins, Eric Brunsen, Nina Slone, Mary Genevieve Fortier, and Carole McLaughlin.—S.N.

 

Table of Contents

Zapheads: Bone and Cinder

The After series

The Next series

 

About the Authors

Other Books

UK Kindle Links

Acknowledgements

 

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