Protective Post-apocalyptic Web Novels & Stories

The sky burned. The snow that fell afterward was ash. Mara and Tobias were divorced long before the world ended, torn apart by the grief of losing their son. But their daughter Wren is alive, locked inside a seed vault, and the doors open only once, at midnight on Christmas Eve. To reach her, they have to cross a frozen wasteland full of raiders, hungry survivors, and the Transfigured: the dead who rise reborn as bark and blossom, with every memory of the people they loved burned away. Then Tobias falls. He wakes as something new, and he doesn't know her. Mara is next. Now two strangers wearing the faces of husband and wife are walking toward a child who remembers everything. One night. One vow. One little girl who won't let them forget.

My husband abandoned me to die. Another man died saving me. Now, I have thirty days to change their fates. When the apocalypse destroys civilization, Vespera Wynn discovers the truth about her marriage. Trapped beneath the wreckage, she watches her husband, Corvin Ashbourne, choose his own survival over hers. Severin Veyr, a former military commander, risks everything to rescue her, only to disappear into the infected horde. She dies wishing she could have saved him. Then she wakes up thirty days before the apocalypse. Armed with memories of the coming catastrophe, Vespera knows what awaits humanity. This time, she refuses to remain helpless. She will secure resources, prepare for the collapse, and find Severin before fate claims him again. But Severin doesn't know her. Disciplined, suspicious, and unwilling to trust strangers, he questions her motives and her impossible knowledge. With disaster approaching, Vespera proposes an unconventional solution: marriage. She brings resources and strategic connections; he brings military expertise and the means to build a defensible sanctuary. Their arrangement is supposed to be practical, with clear boundaries and no promises of love. But sharing a life with the man she once watched die awakens feelings Vespera never planned for. As the infected spread and humanity descends into chaos, Severin begins questioning how his wife predicts dangers before they happen. And Vespera discovers that changing the future may cost more than she imagined. She has thirty days to prepare for the end of the world. Can she save the man who once saved her without losing her heart in the process?

The world ended in fire, plague, and silence but it did not end her. Kaya Voss is not a survivor. She is what survival became after it stopped being merciful. Feared across the Wastes as "The Widowmaker," she walks through radioactive ruins and raider camps alike without a scratch, because nothing man, mutant, or machine has ever proven strong enough to stop her. She trusts no one. She needs no one. And she has buried a truth about herself so deep that even she has started to believe the lie. Then she finds Elian Reyes, a half-starved medic from the Enclosed City of Meridian Hollow, defenseless in every way that matters out here, and utterly unwilling to be saved by a woman he was raised to believe couldn't exist. He is soft where she is iron. He asks questions she has spent years avoiding. And against every instinct that has kept her alive, she lets him live. What begins as reluctant protection becomes something neither of them can outrun not the growing pull between them, not the enemies converging on Kaya from both the Wastes and the City, and not the truth about who and *what* she really is. Because Kaya Voss was not born in the Collapse.She was built for it. As old enemies resurface, the City's council reveals its true agenda, and the Undercurrent's existence proves horrifyingly real, Kaya must decide what's worth protecting when the last thing she ever expected to find in a dead world is someone worth loving.

Her youth, her career, her beauty, her love, even the years she spent raising the child she believed was her daughter. In return, Riven gave her nothing but betrayal. After years of marriage, Avenne discovers her husband has been secretly in love with another woman. Worse, the child she sacrificed everything to raise was never hers. When Riven looks her in the eyes and calls her fat, unattractive, and boring, Avenne realizes that the man she built her entire life around never valued her. Then, before she can even recover from the truth, the world changes. The ground splits beneath her feet, and Avenne falls into a strange and terrifying place known as the Underworld. Alone, frightened, and with no way back to the life she once knew, Avenne encounters a mysterious man who is slowly dying from a deadly poison. She doesn’t know him. She doesn’t know why he looks at her as though he has been waiting for her. And she certainly doesn’t know why a strange system suddenly awakens inside her, revealing a power she never knew she possessed. Avenne saves his life. What she doesn’t know is that the man she rescued is far more powerful than he appears, and her arrival in the Underworld is not a coincidence. The woman Riven rejected as nothing more than a fat housewife is about to discover that she was never worthless. She was simply in the wrong world. In the Underworld, her story is only beginning. And this time, Avenne won’t live for anyone but herself.

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.

In the future, the world no longer needs love. It needs children. Humanity's survival depends on them. *** Fiora is assigned to bear the child of a mysterious man living on a hidden island. As one of the few women who survived the deadly virus that wiped out most of the female population across the globe, Fiora has only one duty--to give birth to as many children as possible and help prevent humanity from going extinct. But the moment she arrives on the island, everything she thought she knew is turned upside down. She isn't there to satisfy the desires of just one man... ...but five. Not only are they devastatingly handsome and extraordinarily powerful, they also possess abilities far beyond those of ordinary humans. Vael, their enigmatic leader, capable of manipulating memories. Riven, the man who can read minds. Darius, a warrior blessed with overwhelming strength. Elyon, a gifted healer with miraculous restorative powers. Zephyr, the master of the wind. Five extraordinary men. One woman. One mission that could determine the future of mankind. ***

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?

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.