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Set in the same world as After the Day and Red Tide, Ronin follows a young man who tries to find himself in the ancient warrior system of the Samurai. On the day Washinton D.C. is destroyed in a nuclear detonation Phil is a simple Dishwasher. His life changes from that moment on. Using the code of the Samurai and a Katana Phil struggles to find the correct path in life and in himself. Matthew Gilman can be contacted at Studentghetto1@gmail.com He can also be found at his blog The Collapse Experiment on Wordpress.com, on Twitter @studentghetto1, and his author page on Facebook.

A steel fortress sits in eastern Ohio built of old steel shipping containers. What had functioned as a trading post now sits as a castle under siege from a traveling horde of marauders. Their leader, a man called Death, leads their charge to take what he wants. When a lone swordsman stops him from taking what is his, Death sets himself on a self-destructive mission to kill the only man to ever get in his way. John and Aurora are newlyweds who have never been outside of their home town of New Haven. Growing up in the former state of Michigan 20 years after the collapse of the United States ...

At 4:20am, on June 18, 2013 journalist Michael Hastings died in a fiery car accident that left more questions than clues about his death. Six years before Hastings's fiancee died when her convoy was attacked by insurgents in Iraq. Her charred body was found in the remains of her car after grenades had been tossed underneath turning the gas tank into a bomb. During the years between these tragic events Hastings made several enemies and fewer friends as he exposed the crimes and antics of government and military officials. This book covers the life and times of Michael Hastings while trying ...

12 years after the collapse of the United States, the town of New Haven has recovered the best they could without electricity. Their new sense of normal is challenged when the spring season never arrives and the townspeople are are forced to survive in a world where crops no longer grow and hunting is close to impossible. John, the sheriff of New Haven, is forced out into the cold when people start to disappear and he discovers he is on the trail of a killer.

Hobbit Baby chronicles a father’s journey through a NICU after his daughter was born at 23 weeks gestation. On May 25th 2017, Zoey was born at 1 pound 5 ounces with an unknown infection. What followed was a fight that went on for 91 days in a world foreign to her parents and family. Originally published on The Good Men Project website, Hobbit Baby is a collection of articles written as the events took place. With chapters like Baby Fight Club and What NOT to Expect When You’re Expecting you can follow the ups and downs of parenting a micro-preemie baby. This is not a guidebook for ...

Life has calmed down for Vance. Thinking his past is behind him with his new life, he is now the Co-owner of a restaurant and taking things slow with his Girlfriend. Vance’s life is turned upside down again when two people walk in the door wearing mask and carrying guns. Old instincts kick into gear and Vance finds himself at the opposite end of a contract put on him. While he tries to stay several steps ahead of the killers sent after him he also works to keep his relationship stable and the business secure. Can Vance keep things going while bullets fly and blood is spilled? Or, is his ...

A nuclear bomb is detonated in Washington DC. A week later the power goes out across the country. The people who don’t die from starvation are subject to a flu that wipes out a large portion of the population. Book 3 of the Future Collapse series brings us back to New Haven, a town survivors pieced together in an attempt to bring back civilization. A roaming convoy of bikers ride into town with the threat that they will return. While the town tries preparing to defend themselves a wandering swordsman rides into town with two women. Set seven years After the Day, this is the third book of ...

Mike and Sarah already had a rough year with the birth of their micro preemie daughter and dealing with the estate that belonged to Sarah's late father. While they were an hour out of town they learned that the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted and was sending a scalding hot wave of ash their way. The clock is ticking and not only do they have to reach home, but also find supplies to wait out the disaster. When the ash settles they find a new country and a new way of life that they have to adapt to or die trying.

Following a steep economic downturn Washington D.C. is destroyed by a nuclear detonation. While the nation is still mourning and trying to figure who is in charge, the power goes out across the country leaving everyone with limited resources and no ability to communicate. This book covers the first days of the Future Collapse and the aftermath in a Midwest city three years later. This is the first book of the Future Collapse series. To find out what happens next look for After the Day: Red Tide available on Amazon. Matthew Gilman can be contacted at Studentghetto1@gmail.com He can also be ...

After the nuclear detonation in Washington D.C. the United States was left isolated from the rest of the world. Three years later ships started to arrive bringing aid. Then things changed. The Chinese were pushing into the country until people started to fight back. This is the story of those people and the fight to defend our homeland from foreign invaders. Matthew Gilman can be contacted at Studentghetto1@gmail.com He can also be found at his blog The Collapse Experiment on Wordpress.com, on Twitter @studentghetto1, and his author page on Facebook.

Following a nuclear detonation in Washington D.C. a small group of Army Rangers find themselves to be the sole survivors left to defend the United States against a foreign invader. The President and majority of Congress are assumed dead, the Vice President is missing, and the country is left waiting to discover who will come to power. Set in the same world as the Future Collapse series, Homefront follows a resistance group that fights to restore order out of chaos, while making allies in unexpected places. Major port cities like Seattle are turned into landing sites for an invading Chinese ...

Mark was a successful podcaster and writer in his younger years. His life was turned upside down after being renditioned and tortured until he made a deal with the state. Stuck in a self-Imposed prison, he watches life pass by during the Great Reset and what many people call the end of the world. Hunter tries to live his life in the moment while desiring something more. A few years prior he joined an Eco-terrorist group until he left before being caught or killed. Now he tries to find purpose in a world that doesn’t offer much for young men. Convinced to go on one last mission he finds ...

Vance finally achieved his goal of living a semi-normal life running his restaurant with the two loves of his life until a man appears in his apartment with a file about his past. Hired to infiltrate the Russian mob he fought to leave, Vance has to take down the same organization that wanted him dead only a few years before. With the help of his girlfriend Samantha, they work together to take down the west coast mob. In the meantime, London is left alone to run the restaurant and learns something that will changes their lives forever.

In the early morning hours of April 27, 2022 the FBI raided the apartment of Emmy award winning Journalist James Gordon Meek. In the months prior, Meek had released a documentary contradicting the official story on the deaths of four Green Berets in Niger, started work on a book documenting the failed withdraw from Afghanistan, and was looking into American policies in the country of Ukraine. Nobody has seen him since. Six months later Rolling Stone would release an article questioning the whereabouts of James Gordon Meek. Had he gone into hiding? Was the FBI behind his disappearance? Why ...

The economy has started to crash. Society appears to be on a self-destructive path. The people in charge are starting to show that maybe they are crazier than the people they look over. This is the start of the Great Reset, the organization of a new society designed by people who were not elected or appointed by any government. The first book in the Great Reset series we follow the lives of Smith, Hank, Bill, and Sheka, as they navigate through their changing lives while the economy falls apart and society starts to decline. Smith is a radio DJ who enjoys talking about the latest conspiracy...

Hannah is a young woman still living at home in a small town working nights at a local gas station, when she learns a new video game company is hiring people to test out a new virtual reality console system. Eager to get out of the family house with an alcoholic abusive step-dad, she works towards getting into the program with the help of her online friend TypeO+, only to learn it’s not what she was told it was. Desperate to uncover the truth, Hannah tries to gather evidence about a program responsible for destroying her life and possibly thousands of others around the world. Hans Braun ...

In 2015 I was an up and coming writer hired to work on a television show. I had just gone through a breakup and left my job of 14 years. Things were looking up and before I knew it I was flying to Seattle. That was when everything changed. This is a coming of age story about a man being pulled into a world he is not familiar with and the characters he meets along the way. Come along for a ride of big money, fast cars, and loose women, or maybe not. You'll have to wait and find out.

When 12 men take over an all girls school one person stands in their way. Daisy is having a bad year, first her father is arrested after a shooting, then she has been sent to live with her grandparents, now a group of terrorist have taken over her school. This is the story of a 14 year-old girl trying to survive as her world falls apart around her. Raised by her father, Daisy uses her training in Judo and knowledge of 80s and 90s action movies to make sure the terrorists lives are a living hell. After subduing a man, Daisy is asked, "what are we going to do?" "If they bleed, we can kill ...

Years after the terrorist takeover of her school, Daisy has moved on in her life. Living on her own in a dorm room in a college campus she is oblivious to a recent political uproar on campus after a local police shooting involving a white police officer and a black man at a traffic stop. Overnight, a civil rights protest turns the campus into the Central Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ. Communists and anarchist take over the zone and soon the struggle sessions of Mao’s China and trials start forcing those who don’t agree with the party to either take a side or disappear. With the mayor ...

A prequel to After the Day, Remnants of the Day fills the three year space that readers have been curious about. This books follows the main characters of the Post apocalyptic hit from before the Day until three years after. After a nuclear bomb is detonated in Washington D.C. the United States is thrown into chaos. A week later the power goes out across the country. In the first three years the population is a small fraction of what it was. The government officials try to leave the country. A flu runs rampant the first winter when immune systems are already weakened from lack of food. ...