The story that came before the book of Alarum… Connors’ world has fallen apart and the clock is ticking. Once a wealthy lawyer on the rise with a family, a career, and a postcard-perfect house, he’s now forced to face the hard lesson that nothing is guaranteed as he’s suddenly reduced to scrounging for survival and learning the art of the gun. Connors faces the wild road in search of his missing family against the deadly obstacles of the world crumbling around him, but he’s never backed down from a challenge before and he sure isn’t about to start now.

I fled as they destroyed my home. I watched as they murdered my family. I stood silent as they stole my name and threw my life in chains. I stare coldly at my fading reflection with only one question to ask: Them or Me? Set in a future where the United States has fallen, a girl is ripped from her home as a child and forced to endure the harshness around her or else surrender to the dust of bones she treads on. Her life becomes simple: kill or be killed. What she didn’t count on was the heavy cost this world would drain from her soul. When she crosses paths with a curious stranger who offers to show her a place without a map, they head across the crumbling land in search of the fabled Sanctuary. Neither enemies nor elements that rip her hair and claw at her heels can stand in the way of her will to survive. They say demons lurk in the shadows, but here they strut boldly under the angry sun.

A novella set within the story of Alarum... Fury and Riker's paths first crossed as children, although they went by different names then, and now years later and against all odds they've found one another again. Dressed in the blood of their enemies, the dirt of their journeys, and the ruthless fire of an angry sun, they have no one but each other to turn to. But are they still the people they remember? Fury has just buried kin and her blood heats at the thought of running wild and free, screaming at the devils who took from her until she can breathe no longer. There is no room in her hardened heart for love, not even when it comes riding up in the handsome form of a gunslinger straight out of her haunted past. Riker is reunited with his childhood love whom he never confessed his feelings for and thought he'd lost for good. But now she's standing by his side and he's determined that nothing will ever tear them apart again. She might face the world with fire in her eyes and a shotgun aimed at its heart but he knows somewhere inside there's still a burning ember of hope. A duo of defiancé they tear up the wild west with steel in their hands and chaos at their backs knowing they head full tilt into a fate of no return. The true question is whether they will face that day with love or madness pounding in their hearts.

Born in an experimental lab before two outlaws stole him away, Bones has been planted into the vengeful earth growing strong with a gun in each hand. Given freedom by a group called Sanctuary he’s trained his powers carefully until one day they let him leave. Until one day he witnesses something that will cause his loyalty to waver. Until one day it’s his own name they vow to write with blood. As the life he thought he knew threatens to crumble beneath his feet he takes to the road determined to explore with no tether but his plans quickly go awry when old adversaries capture him to pay for the sins of his saviors. Whether there remains any place in this harsh land that might dare call itself Home, he fights each challenger with a gun aimed at their chest and a laugh in his step. _When the world wants you dead, dare to smile._

Twelve lives were set free but only one will enter. Stories of the wealthy and magnanimous Rochester Alliance have carried Maddy thousands of miles to reach its gates while hoping it might be the one place that can keep her ghosts out. Except what if the fate she thought long left behind is simply biding its time? The Alliance may boast technological feats and prestige, but it isn’t this gilded world that saves her when Maddy stumbles across the border as a refugee on the run. Taken under the wing of notorious thieves, the gritty urban underground becomes both shield and sword when her life is suddenly ripped from the shadows one Christmas Eve that brings a heist, a diplomat, and a secret threatening to drag her back to the one place she won’t survive. Little does she know that soon a ghost will slip through with salvation in one hand and strings in the other set on collecting an old debt that could change Maddy’s world forever. If you give a rat a cookie, will it still eye your flesh?

O say can you see by my bomb’s warning light… Under a symphony of explosions and allegiance sung in minor key, a mysterious assassin called Ares rises from the ashes to challenge both leaders and citizens alike. Fear and false comforts hold society in its prison and after so many years of obedience will they be able to open their eyes and grasp onto the change Ares offers them? Ares has plotted patiently and remains steadfast on her path, moving her pawns across the board biding her time for rebellion to ignite. When the clock chimes at last the people will stand behind her or condemn her to face her fate alone. The future of the Pacific Confederation hangs in the balance and one persistent inspector could be all it takes to hold the cornerstone in place. Will the iron rule hold? Or will the cries for freedom shatter the walls at last? …For a change is a must when our cause it is just

A BEGINNING. Morgan Travers was little more than a favored intern at a top medical research facility with a bright future ahead of her. She laughed, she worked, she lived, and she’d at last earned the coveted favor of her mentor, Dr. Xi. Morgan was a nobody, but she was going places. Until one choice destroyed everything: her career, her life, her nation. In one horror-filled moment, Morgan Travers became an infamous curse on everyone’s lips. A REPEAL. Locked in the darkness until her hair begins to gray, a mysterious offer interrupts Morgan’s sealed fate. If she agrees, she could undo the nightmare, restore order to a land destroyed, and exact revenge on those who had betrayed her. The question is: where is the line and will she be willing to cross it? The thrilling conclusion to the Walking Shadows series unveils the mysterious, dark origins of its dystopian world at last.

A collection of all-new stories from the world of Walking Shadows… Dawn to Dusk | Connors’ world has fallen apart. Once a wealthy lawyer on the rise, he’s now reduced to learning the art of the gun as he faces the wild road in search of his missing family. "But a Dream" | An alternate ending to Alarum, the first book in the Walking Shadows series. "Taming of the Tiger" | Mara has lost her eye, her family, and too much else. A feared warrior, some call her crazy behind her back, but she’s comfortable being alone. That is, until a red-haired stranger threatens to steal the one thing she has left: her heart. "Freckles and the Devil" | Maddy has been forced into service as Agent Paladin and without her makeshift family, she has nothing else to fight for. Until a long-lost ally sets her free and the chance to love rises once again. "Never Forgotten" | Maverick served a toppled regime and now he faces the challenges of leading a rising one. When he isn’t occupied with holding a people together, he wonders about his lost sister and certainly doesn’t expect her to be headed his way. "Into the Sunset" | Where is everyone now? Enjoy a reunion of characters new and old set a few years after Initus, the last book in the Walking Shadows series.