Action Apocalypse Web Novels & Protective Apocalypse Stories

In her past life, Evelyn was a fool. Blinded by the sweet lies of her "first love," Julian, she ruined her family, stripped them of their wealth, and ruthlessly shattered the heart of Derrick—the one man who would have laid down his life for her. Her reward? When the zombie apocalypse finally hit, Julian used her as live bait to buy himself time to run. ​She died screaming in the teeth of the horde. ​Then, the darkness recedes. Evelyn opens her eyes ninety days before Patient Zero. Her family is alive, her fortune is intact, and the end of the world is ticking closer by the second. ​Armed with memories of the future, Evelyn sets out to build an impenetrable fortress, ruin Julian, and shield her family from the coming hell. But there is a brutal catch: she cannot succeed in her mission unless she earns Derrick's genuine love back first. ​There's just one massive problem: Derrick utterly despises her. ​Devastated by her past betrayal, Derrick has locked his heart behind impenetrable walls. He doesn't want her apologies, he doesn't trust her warnings, and he looks at her with nothing but cold, absolute hatred. ​With the countdown to doomsday ticking away and the infected about to rise, Evelyn must risk everything to tear down his hatred. She isn't just fighting flesh-eating hordes and human monsters—she’s fighting to reclaim the heart she destroyed before time runs out.

The world ended on a Monday. Lara Simpson was laid off, discarded, and sitting on her parents' couch when a stranger's face flashed across the screen and screamed a warning into her skull. Now she's LII, one of the hundred Heard sworn to protect the Livings from the monsters who destroyed everything. Each month, they return and take from the Livings, without reason or mercy. Lara believes she was chosen to protect them, and she doesn't ask questions. Until she's promoted to train XC, a smiling recruit who asks too many questions and carries more pain than anyone should. He's the one person whose mind she can't calm, and the one person who makes her feel safe. But the Ruler is always watching, and the truth about the Heard is worse than the monsters. When the truth finally comes out, Lara will have to choose between the lie that saved her and the man who would give anything to save her.

For ten years, Seraphina Ashford fought through the zombie apocalypse, sacrificing everything to protect the people she loved. In the end, the reward for her loyalty was betrayal. Her husband pushed her into a zombie den. Her best friend stood beside him, smiling. Her mother-in-law watched without remorse. As thousands of zombies closed in, Seraphina wrapped her arms around her unborn child and made one final wish. "If there's a second life... I'll never trust you again. I'll save my parents. And I'll make every one of you pay." When she opens her eyes, she's no longer dying. She's back in her college dorm—three years before the apocalypse. This time, she isn't the naïve girl blinded by love. She's armed with memories of the future... and the mysterious Apocalypse Survival System. Every choice she makes changes fate. Every mission brings her closer to the truth. Every act of revenge makes her stronger. But as the apocalypse draws near, Seraphina discovers that her husband and best friend were never the true enemy. Someone far more dangerous has been orchestrating humanity's downfall from the shadows. And the only person who may be able to help her save the world... ...is the man destined to become the feared zombie king. In this life, revenge is only the beginning. This time, the Apocalypse Queen refuses to lose.

Years after a deadly infection-The Lunar Plague-swept across the world, humans either died, turned into monstrous Hollowfangs, or survived with rare, unexplained immunity. Wolves became the dominant species, building packs and fighting to survive in a world of ruins. THE ALPHA Kael, known as The Grave Wolf, is the most powerful Alpha on the East Coast. Ruthless, feared, and respected, he built his pack from the ashes. But beneath the cold exterior is a man haunted by one loss— Nova Reyes, the girl he was fated to, who disappeared on the night the outbreak began. He spent five years searching for her, believing she was dead.

I died with poison burning in my throat and my husband's knife at my neck. Edward Blackwood married me for my father's money. He held me through nightmares, called me sweetheart, and let me risk my life for his mother's medicine while she faked her fever. Then he tore my father's necklace from my neck and watched me die. But his betrayal wasn't the worst thing I saw that day. Minutes earlier, I watched General Adrik Hale, the man who told the whole country to stay calm, shot in an alley. His killer's last words still echo in my ears: "Project Chimera was never destroyed." Then I woke up in my wedding dress, exactly 365 days before the world ended. This time, I said "I do not" at the altar. I slapped the man who murdered me. I walked out beside my family, and I swore I would keep every one of them alive. Then a military convoy pulled up outside the church. And the man who stepped out of the lead van was General Adrik Hale. Alive. Asking my father for land. Looking at me like he knew exactly who I was. I have one year to stop a conspiracy, save the people I love, and survive the end of the world. And the only man who can help me is the one I watched die.

Every day at the same hour, the Red Ones come. And anyone caught outside when they arrive dies. For years, fourteen-year-old Elara Vance has lived underground with her mother and little brother, Noah, following one simple rule: never be outside when the Red Ones come. Then her mother leaves to find food—and never returns. With their supplies running out and Noah growing weaker by the day, Elara has no choice but to break the only rule keeping them alive. She goes outside. Noah follows her. And before they can make it back, the hour arrives. The streets empty. The Red Ones appear. With nowhere to hide and no idea what waits beyond the town, Elara makes a promise she doesn't know if she can keep. She will protect her brother, no matter what it costs her. Then a broken man saves them. He has lost everything. His family. His home. His reason to keep fighting. He was already waiting for the day the Red Ones would take him too. But watching Elara risk her life for her brother changes something in him. Now he has someone worth protecting. Together, the three of them must uncover the safe places hidden throughout the town, survive the hours when the Red Ones rule the streets, and find a way out before they become trapped there forever. Because there is one question nobody has dared to ask: What is waiting beyond the town?

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?

Betrayed and left to die during the zombie apocalypse, Patricia Kerrigan wakes up seven days before the outbreak. This time, she will save her brother, prepare for the end, and make the people who betrayed her regret it. But changing the past triggers the apocalypse early, and Patty’s first love may be the only person she can trust when the dead begin to rise again.

Thirty days before the apocalypse, Alice Quinn dies pregnant and betrayed—left to rot by the man who put the child in her and the best friend she trusted most. Then she wakes up. Same date. Same city. Same people who will one day abandon her. Only this time she has a mysterious Survival System… and a terrifying warning: her unborn child is no ordinary lifeform. Alice has thirty days to stockpile, fortify, and cut every soft place they once used against her. But the future is already shifting. Disasters arrive early. The dead stay alive. And a stranger named John Carter is watching her like he already knows she doesn’t belong in this timeline. She came back to protect her child. She may have been brought back for something far more dangerous.