Second Chance Apocalypse Web Novels & Stories

Rowan Hale spent seven years giving everything to her husband Dominic Pryce and his family: her savings, her career, her health. When the dead rose in the winter after the Great Flood, he had one seat left on the evacuation truck, and he gave it to his mistress. Rowan’s own sister was the mistress, and the child Rowan had raised as a nephew was theirs. Rowan died in the snow with the truth in her mouth like ash. Then she woke up in her own bed, with ninety days left on a clock only she could see. Rowan walks away from the marriage on day one. She has no tears left, only a paper trail and a grandmother’s sealed inheritance that her husband never knew existed. She sells what the end of the world will make worthless and buys what it will make priceless. A strange spatial ability she barely understands is awakening in her hands. The whole neighborhood thinks grief has broken her mind, and her ex-husband is already circling her new money. But this apocalypse is wrong. The weather is turning too early. A silent, watchful neighbor with a soldier’s eyes keeps noticing things about her that no stranger should. And someone is moving through Rowan’s carefully rebuilt life who seems to remember the first timeline too. She died once because she trusted the wrong people. This time she’s counting every day.

BLURB: Left in the dark to be devoured by monsters, Vivienne Hale died clutching her five-year-old daughter—discarded by her Alpha mate, Dorian, for her cousin’s unborn heir. Given a second chance, Vivienne wakes thirty days before the Red Moon splits the sky. Armed with a doomsday system, divine healing powers, and an infinite dimensional space, she liquidates her secret billions to prepare for the end of the world. She severs her mate bond, ruins Dorian’s pack from within, and joins forces with his deadliest rival, Alpha Jaxson Sterling. When the apocalypse strikes and Dorian comes begging on his knees, Vivienne makes one chilling demand: Hand over the pack to my daughter, or rot.

In her previous life, Victoria Vance lived as the overlooked, plus-size hidden wife of billionaire CEO Julian Sterling under a cold contract marriage. Mocked by high-society elites and taken for granted by Julian, her life was upended when an unexpected pregnancy threatened Julian's lifelong devotion to his slender childhood savior, Chloe Bennett, who framed Victoria and caused a tragic fall. When a sudden bio-hazard catastrophe struck, Julian believed Chloe's forged contamination files and left a bleeding Victoria locked in a vault while carrying Chloe to safety. Dying in the dark, Victoria's love turned to ice. Waking up ninety days before the apocalypse, she wastes no time on tears. Armed with future knowledge, she signs an unconditional divorce, liquidates her assets, and utilizes her hidden master engineering skills to construct an impenetrable subterranean fortress. When the world collapses and Julian's billions become worthless, he and Chloe face starvation at her blast doors, only to discover that the plus-size ex-wife he left to die is now the absolute sovereign ruler of the new world, demanding complete submission before she grants any form of mercy or intimacy.

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.