Independent Apocalypse Web Novels & Post-apocalyptic Stories

She died protecting the family that abandoned her. Now she has returned before the apocalypse. This time, she will stockpile everything, build her own safe haven, grow stronger step by step and watch the people who betrayed her beg for the help they once refused to give her.

Emma was betrayed by the two people she trusted most—her boyfriend Daniel and her younger sister Lily. After surviving two brutal years of an apocalypse caused by the mysterious red rain, Emma is eventually killed by the people she once called family. Just when she believes everything is over, an Apocalypse Survival System awakens and sends her back thirty days before the red rain falls. Given a second chance, Emma decides she will never make the same mistakes again. She will prepare for the apocalypse, protect her parents, build a powerful and trustworthy refuge, and make sure Daniel and Lily can never betray her again.

They locked the door and left me to the dead. Then I woke up thirty days before the world ended, with ten million dollars in my account and every memory of how they betrayed me. This time, I catch the cheaters first. I buy every noodle, every bullet, every bag of rice. I build a fortress forty feet underground while the whole city laughs. Then the dead rise, and my ex-husband and his mistress crawl to my vault door, bloody and begging. Some doors only open for the ones who deserve it. And I remember exactly who doesn't.

Forty-five days before the world freezes, Lena gets a second chance at life. In her first life, she watched helplessly as her husband, Adrian, chose his mistress over her and their six-year-old son. Left outside in the deadly snow, Lena and Noah froze to death while the people who betrayed them stayed warm and safe. But death was not the end. Reborn with memories of the coming apocalypse, Lena has only one goal: protect her son and make sure no one ever has the power to hurt them again. She divorces Adrian, takes a massive loan, and begins building a heavily fortified underground bunker in the middle of nowhere. Everyone thinks she has gone insane. Adrian mocks her, his mistress celebrates her downfall, and the world continues as if nothing is wrong. But as the temperature begins to drop, Lena discovers she isn't the only one preparing for the end. Marco Steel, Adrian's powerful rival, is building a bunker of his own. When the Great Freeze finally arrives, the people who laughed at Lena will beg for her help. And Adrian? He will learn that some regrets come too late.

Arya died alone on a cold floor being feasted by a hoard of zombies. Betrayed and alone, she is given a second chance at life with a new system. But not as a human. As a zombie hybrid. her body adjusts to the virus and becomes the only weapon that can survive the apocalypse and the only cure that can end it. In her hunt for revenge, she remembers what it's like to love, but will she allow herself to fall again? And will she sacrifice herself to save the very people who killed her the first time?

The last thing Nessa Calder remembers is her husband's hand closing the rescue-boat gate. There was room for his mistress. There was room for the supplies Nessa had carried through a drowning city. There was no room for her. Then she wakes sixty days before the first storm. This time, the thirty-two-year-old cold-chain engineer refuses to sign away her mother's depot, leaves her marriage, and spends her inheritance on the things the coming apocalypse will make priceless: clean water, heat, medicine, and doors that hold. A strange storage space gives her a small advantage. It cannot make food, shelter a person, or tell her which memory will fail next. Her preparations attract Gideon Shaw, a former maritime rescue commander with his own boat, equipment, and reasons to distrust people who promise safety. Their first agreement concerns a damaged loading berth. The next could decide who survives the flood. As power fails and the streets disappear, Nessa's husband returns to demand a place inside her gates. So do neighbors, desperate strangers, and an old friend whose loyalty has a price Nessa does not yet understand. Protecting her supplies is becoming easier than deciding whom to protect with them. Then the temperature drops weeks before it should, and an enemy reaches a supply route she told only her closest companions. Nessa has survived this world's ending once. Who has already made her preparations part of theirs?

They took everything from her. Now she's building something they can't touch. Emma spent years as the invisible backbone of the Smith family, cooking, cleaning, working, sacrificing while her husband Derek and his adopted sister Rachel treated her like a servant. When they finally discarded her, they thought she would crawl back, desperate and broken. They were wrong. Now Emma lives across the street in the old farmhouse, a house she bought with cash they never knew she had, and she's not just renovating, she's preparing, stockpiling supplies, reinforcing walls and building a bunker. When the Smiths discover her wealth, their greed awakens. They want her back, they want her money and they want to control her again. But Emma isn't the woman they threw away. She's patient, watching, and she knows something they don't. The world is about to change, and when it does, the people across the street will come begging. She'll be ready.

Joanna wakes up from a dream six months before the apocalypse. In her dream she lived 5 years into the apocalypse before she was sold to an enemy base by her mom and sister after they betrayed her. She decides to rewrite her ending by upgrading her secret storage space and building an elite team of fighters who will battle zombies, gain superpowers, and keep her from becoming an experiment to the enemy base.

In her past life, Clara was a devoted wife who gave her entire massive fortune to her husband, Damon. In return, when the zombie apocalypse hit, Damon and his secret lover—who posed as his adopted sister—pushed Clara into a horde of hungry zombies to save themselves. Torn apart by monsters, Clara suddenly opens her eyes. She has been reborn exactly one month before the end of the world! This time, she refuses to be a blind fool. She instantly awakens the Infinite Space System. She forcefully divorces her scum husband, takes back her billion-dollar inheritance, and buys the strongest underground fortress in the city. While Damon and his fake sister dream of living in luxury, Clara is busy buying out entire warehouses of instant noodles, premium steaks, fresh water, and heavy weapons, preparing for the apocalypse. In this life, she is the absolute queen of the apocalypse!

Jenna spent years keeping her husband's family alive. When a supervolcano erupted and ash buried the city, they locked her out of the shelter she had helped build. She suffocated outside the hatch while her husband, Steve, watched through the gap and did nothing. With her last breath, she learned that Max, the little boy she had raised as her own, was Steve's son with his colleague Vanessa. Then Jenna opens her eyes, sixty days before the eruption. This time, she doesn't beg for a place at their table. She hands Steve divorce papers, sells everything that will be worthless once the sky turns black, and claims the one thing his family always mocked: her late grandfather's abandoned mine, buried deep enough to keep the ash out and the air clean. When Steve and his mother, Linda, try to take half of it, the deed proves it was Jenna's long before the wedding. Everyone calls her crazy for stockpiling respirators, diesel, and medicine. Only Ray, the cold and watchful captain of the mine rescue team, notices that nothing she buys is random. He doesn't trust her, but he can't ignore that she seems to know something no one else does. Then the mountain blows. The sky turns red, roofs collapse under the ash, and the same people who locked her out come pounding on her door, begging to be let in. This time, Jenna decides who lives.