When a complete economic and social collapse sweeps the globe, a group of American patriots--thousands of miles away from their families and everything they know--must fight for their very survival and find their way to safety as the world crumbles around them.

Thought Alita's struggles were finally over? Hoped she could settle down with her devoted full-flesh man in a nice house in the Scrapyard suburbs? Think again. Alita awakens in a new cyborg body--as stunning as before, but even more powerful--in a world whose dark secret has at long last been revealed to all, pitting parent against child, metal against flesh.

Left alone on an ecologically-ravaged Earth for hundreds of years, a garbage-collecting robot finally finds love and the solution to make the world habitable again, but must go to the farthest reaches of space to make it happen.

In a future America marked by zealotry and environmental catastrophe, witch Polly Lightfoot flees New Florida, where she was sent to escape a purge of the nation's infidels and pagans, for Vermont in order to be reunited with her family.

When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived.

"Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley lives in America-Five, a high-tech, underground, utopian settlement where hunger and money do not exist, everyone has a job, and all basic needs are met. But when her mentor and colleague, Jeffrey, selects her to join a special team to venture Outside for the first time, Natasha's allegiances to home, society, and above all to Jeffrey are tested. She is forced to make a choice that may put the people she loves most...

Touch is lethal. Love is dangerous. Nobody is safe. For fifty years, the Key Corporation has defended humanity against a deadly plague that spreads through touch. Lovers don't hold hands, or even kiss. Personal boundaries are valued above all. Break the laws, and you'll face execution. Elodie, a talented young nurse, believes in the mission of the Key and has never questioned the laws that control her life. But Elodie is forced to break the rules...