Branded an outlaw and driven from Texas, Dr. Samuel Knight comes out of hiding to tend to the wounds of a team of miners after a cave-in - and catches the attention of the mine's beautiful owner who needs his help.

USA Today bestselling author: After the war, a Confederate doctor returns to Texas—and fights to reclaim his life . . . Bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone give the classic American hero a real shot in the arm—in this epic story of a Rebel doctor fighting for justice in the aftermath of the Civil War . . . Vengeance with a scalpel On the blood-stained battlefields of a divided nation, Dr. Samuel Knight used his surgical skills to treat wounded Confederate soldiers. In the brutal prison camps of the Union Army, he offered his healing services to fellow captives who'd given up hope. But now, with the war over and the South in ruins, the good doctor faces his hardest challenge yet: to save himself . . . Penniless and hungry, Knight has to beg, borrow, and steal to survive in a post-war hell that used to be his country. By the time he reaches his home in East Texas, it's been taken over. Ruthless Union soldiers rule over the town with an iron fist. A Yankee carpetbagger is living in his old house—and the jackal has forced Knight's wife to marry him. A normal man might give up, but Dr. Samuel Knight is going to take back what belongs to him. With a heart full of grit, a hunger for revenge, and swift, surgical precision, he'll stick a bullet in every dead man walking . . .

In a world divided between the privileged sky cities, struggling tower cities, and the desolate ground, a young woman named Sophie uncovers a dark secret that threatens to unravel the fabric of her society. Born in the sky cities, but yearning to know about life below, Sophie becomes entangled in the life of Garim, a Deader – a performer who dies nightly in a twisted entertainment show, only to be brought back to life by the mysterious drug Necrolift. As Sophie and Garim’s paths intertwine, they find themselves caught in a web of lies, betrayal, and exploitation orchestrated by the ruthless Hetzel. Together, they must navigate the treacherous landscape of their worlds, uncovering the horrific truth behind Necrolift’s origin and the depths of human cruelty. Sophie and Garim must risk everything to expose the corruption that plagues their society and fight for a chance at freedom, redemption, and a future worth living for. Deader is a gripping sci-fi thriller that explores the depths of human resilience, the price of survival, and the power of hope in a dystopian world where death is just another performance.

Matt has never been brave. Even though he is an Eagle Scout and has spent an unknown amount of hours outside and in the woods, he has never seen himself as outdoorsy. He likes to play computer games and look at the world from his computer screen. His work, life and entertainment all come from that little glowing box. He had been looking forward to a new year on his own, until a meteor struck in Russia. The spores it released caused panic and set off a chain of events that would irrevocably alter our world. As the world fell apart around him, Matt has to decide if he would play it safe and keep his head down or risk everything to make it home and to his family. Whichever path he chooses will change him forever.

William Gay firmly established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit" (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his critically acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent of broken, colorful souls hard at work charting the pathos of their interior lives. His debut collection, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, brings together what Gay's dedicated readers are eager for and what new readers will find the perfect introduction to his world: thirteen stories that are mined from this same fertile soil teeming with the grizzled, everyday folk that Gay is famous for bringing to life. In these pages readers meet old man Meecham, who escapes from his new nursing home only to find his son has rented their homestead to "white trash"; Quincy Nell Qualls, who not only falls in love with the town lothario but, pregnant, is faced with an inescapable end when he abandons her; Finis and Doneita Beasley, whose forty-year marriage is broken up by a dead dog; Bobby Pettijohn, who is awakened in the middle of the night by the noise and lights of a search party looking for clues after a body is discovered in his backwoods. William Gay expertly sets these conflicted people who make bad choices in life and love against lush back-country scenery, and somehow manages to defy moral logic as we grow to love his characters for the weight of their human errors. Diverse as these tales are, what connects them is the powerful voice of a born storyteller.

From a debut voice comes a genre-breaking blend of apocalyptic sci-fi and epic fantasy about a scattered group of unlikely heroes traveling across their broken mechanical planet to stave off eternal darkness. A tightly-coiled puzzle of a thrill ride, The Failures launches The Wanderlands trilogy Welcome to the Wanderlands. A vast machine made for reasons unknown, the Wanderlands was broken long ago. First went the sky, splintering and cracking, and then very slowly, the whole machine—the whole world—began to go dark. Meet the Failures. Following the summons of a strange dream, a scattering of adventurers, degenerates, and children find themselves drawn toward the same place: the vast underground Keep. They will discover there that they have been called for a purpose—and that purpose could be the destruction of everything they love. The end is nigh. For below the Keep, imprisoned in the greatest cage ever built by magicians and gods, lies the buried Giant. It is the most powerful of its kind, and its purpose is the annihilation of all civilization. But any kind of power, no matter how terrible, is precious in the dimming Wanderlands, and those that crave it are making their moves. All machines can be broken, and the final cracks are spreading. It will take only the careless actions of two cheerful monsters to tip the Wanderlands towards an endless dark...or help it find its way back to the light.

Growing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings of war in Europe. For his parents and their set, life seems to revolve around dinners and dancing at the country club, tennis dates and rounds of golf, holiday parties, summers on the Island, and sparkling occasions full of people and drinks and food and laughter. But curious as he is and impatient to grow up, Tommy will soon come to glimpse the darkness that lies beneath so much genteel complacency: hidden histories and embarrassing poor relations; the subtle (and not so subtle) slighting of the “help”; the mockery of President Roosevelt; and “the commandment they talked least about in Sunday school,” adultery. In Testing the Current William McPherson subtly sets off his wide-eyed protagonist’s perspective with mature reflection and wry humor and surrounds him with a cast of vibrant characters, creating a scrupulously observed portrait of a place and time that will shimmer in readers’ minds long after the final page is turned.

Society has fallen. A plague from origins unknown has unleashed an apocalypse on this world that has caused the fall of everything our society once knew. A girl survives this plague in a small state park on the Delaware Coast. It has been over a year since she has lost almost everything and everyone she had ever known. But things are changing in her safe haven and she has to pick herself up and do whatever she must to keep herself alive. Again. Leaving her safe area means coming face to face with creatures created by this plague. These creatures are smart yet animalistic in their ways. Nothing to trifle with on your own. Very little is really known about these things, and she feels like she knows even less than most. But she does know two things: 1. They will track and kill you if they can. 2. They have Eyes of Blue.