Independent Romance Web Novels & Apocalypse Stories

For six years, Nora’s in-laws called her fat and barren. Three times she got pregnant. Three times she lost the baby. The last was a little girl she held for an hour before they took her away. Every time, her mother-in-law hugged her, cried with her, and brewed her a special “fertility tea.” When the Endless Winter came, her husband took her money, her food, and her house, then traded her grandmother’s ring for a shelter spot for his pregnant mistress. Nora was left outside in the snow. Through the glass, her mother-in-law finally told her the truth: the tea killed her babies. If Nora died married and childless, her grandmother’s fortune would go to her husband. Then Nora opens her eyes. It is 50 days before the first snow. This time, she claims her grandmother’s abandoned cold-storage empire and wakes up with a secret of her own. So she stockpiles in silence, while the whole city laughs at the fat woman buying heaters in summer. Only one person isn’t laughing: Commander Rhys Calder, an arctic rescue officer who has survived winters that killed everyone around him. He knows she’s hiding something. He just can’t figure out why she prepares like a woman who has already died before. When the temperature hits −60°C, her ex and his family come crawling to her door. But Nora has a bigger problem. In her last life, she died in the first winter. She knows exactly how the Freeze begins. She has no idea what comes after it.

My husband sold me for thirty days of food. My best friend counted the supplies while I was dragged away. After two years of keeping them alive, I was worth less to them than a locked storeroom. I died in a settlement laboratory and woke up ninety days before the world ended. This time, I am keeping my money, my supplies and my life. I know which roads will disappear, which shelters will become graves, and exactly who will betray me when the food runs out. But the first catastrophe comes seventeen days early. The bunker I planned to buy has already been claimed, and a stranger knows things he should never know. Then a warning appears in front of me: [ANOTHER REGRESSOR HAS BEEN DETECTED.] Someone has come back to change the future. And unlike me, they want the world to burn.

Hunted by her captors, Iris Clayton seeks refuge from the group of pandemic survivors protected by the strikingly handsome badass Colt Snow, who doesn't give a damn about her. But action speaks louder than words. Every time he looks into her unique blue irises, Colt wants to protect her from whomever is hunting her.

She died freezing, alone, and locked out of his bunker. Now she's back with $4,212 and a grudge. Odessa "Dess" Marlowe gave the Hale family six years, sixty thousand dollars and every ounce of trust she had. In return, her boyfriend Garrick locked her out of his private bunker on the first night of the apocalypse and joked that she'd "eat through the supplies in a week." She froze to death on a pharmacy floor while his mother and his mistress laughed behind a steel door. Then Dess wakes up ninety days before the sky tears open. Her savings are gone. Garrick is cheating. His mother is bringing papers to dinner tonight. And a strange pocket of space has appeared in her mind, one that only grows when she earns. But she didn't come back by luck. Something pulled her out of death on purpose, and something on the other side of the sky is already looking for her. This time, Dess won't beg. She'll collect the proof, take back what's hers, stockpile every last can and blanket she can find, and watch the Hales' perfect lives crack in public. But Garrick isn't the only one who knows what's coming, and the men circling her new life are hiding secrets of their own. A quiet ex-soldier who sees too much. A cold billionaire who looks at her like he has already lost her once. A doctor with a joke for every wound. A mafia heir who won't let anyone touch what's his. When the sky finally breaks, the Hales will come knocking. Dess has plenty of food. Just not for them.

She trusted him with the end of the world. He left her for dead in it. When the zombie apocalypse hits, Maya Rodriguez already knows who she's going to survive with — and who she's going to survive for. What she doesn't know is that her boyfriend has other plans. Ones that don't include her. Abandoned, alone, and furious in a world that has just ended, Maya finds herself with an unlikely companion: LUS, a rogue AI life coach who is equal parts infuriating and inexplicably useful, and who may know more about how the outbreak started than he's letting on. Surviving the apocalypse turns out to be the easy part. Because the world Maya's navigating isn't just full of the undead. It's full of engineered soldiers — wolves in human skin, built by the same government programme that unleashed the virus. It's full of men who want to protect her, want to use her, want to earn her, and want to be forgiven by her. And it's full of one specific slow burn she has categorically refused to name. She's not the woman she was before the world ended. She's considerably more dangerous. ***A post-apocalyptic romance about survival, betrayal, rogue AI, and the specific problem of falling in love when everything is already on fire.

Synopsis Elena Voss opened her doors to her boyfriend and closest friend when the apocalypse hit, offering them shelter in the chaos. In return, they betrayed her—secretly together, twisting her mind with lies, then locking her away so they could seize her home and every supply she had gathered. She broke free and endured eight merciless years of catastrophic floods, scorching heatwaves, corrosive acid rain, and nights that never seemed to end… only to die at their hands over one meager energy bar. Reborn with a mysterious spatial storage ability and a second chance at life, Elena returns stronger. This time she will hoard resources, shield the people who matter, and destroy the traitors who once destroyed her.

What did we do when we were stuck inside during COVID? Some learned new skills, like making sourdough bread or crafting. Some caught up on their Netflix watching, learning all about the Tiger King. And some learned way more about themselves than they would have if the world hadn’t stopped. Samantha and Ashton finally gave in to the love and passion that had been eating them up alive, but they never acted on because Ashton is Samantha’s brother’s best friend. Cole comes to terms with his sexuality with the help of his gay roommate, Kent. Alexis gets stuck overseas with her boss and learns exactly how domineering Jonathan Wilson can be. And couple Jaime and Jorge work to get their roommate Andie out of her shell.

Freya died in the zombie apocalypse after being betrayed by her husband, who chose his mistress over his wife. But the universe decided to give her a second chance, and she woke up a month before the apocalypse. This time, Freya refuses to make the same mistakes. She cuts Griffin out of her life, protects her wealth, prepares for the coming disaster, and begins rebuilding the relationships she once lost. Along the way, James enters her life and shows her that not every relationship has to be built on betrayal. But Griffin refuses to let her go. As he fights to reclaim the life and wealth he believes belong to him, Freya realises that escaping her past won't be easy. Then news of a mysterious virus spreading across Asia reaches the world. The apocalypse is coming. This time, Freya intends to be ready. **Contains adult themes and topics like Sex, Cheating, Killing, Weapons, Blood, and Gore**

Shantali Jackson awakens from cryostasis to discover she's been asleep for over 600 years. A working-class woman from the pre-collapse era, she finds herself in a sterile medical facility, where staff address her as royalty and claim she's the beloved of Prince Costa—a man she barely remembers meeting at Le Glow Club one fateful night. As fragmented memories surface, Shantali learns the devastating truth: she and Costa were never willing participants in the preservation program. After publicly defying their arranged marriages to choose each other, they were declared enemies of the state and forcibly preserved by the Emergency Preservation Committee. They've been awakened seventeen times for six centuries, only to have their memories wiped when they refused to comply with the Council's genetic breeding program. This time is different—the memory suppression technology is failing, and ghostly echowisps (manifestations of psychic trauma) guide them through their escape. With the help of Marcus, a resistance member, they flee to the underground networks where Shantali discovers shocking truths: her half-brother Elliot became a resistance leader, Costa's parents have been working to undermine the Council for centuries, and the outside world has been habitable for generations. The couple escapes to Haven's Gate, one of seven thriving Eastern Sanctuaries where humanity has rebuilt naturally. But freedom is short-lived when they learn Dr. Thorne and other preservation specialists are using extracted consciousness data to create a new form of control—artificial minds programmed for obedience. Refusing to remain passive victims, Shantali and Costa make a bold choice: they'll pose as desperate refugees seeking re-preservation, walking willingly into Dr. Thorne's trap to stop his plans once and for all. Their love story becomes humanity's last hope against a system that would sacrifice free will for genetic perfection. A tale of choice, resistance, and the power of love.

"She's your sister, Isabella! Give her your kidney!" My father's demand still echoes in my ears. In my previous life, I sacrificed everything for my family. I gave up my kidney for my father's precious illegitimate daughter, Gianna. I endured their cruelty, watched my fiancé betray me, and trusted the people who swore they loved me. My reward? They abandoned me to be devoured by zombies. But fate has given me a second chance. I have returned to the day they planned to cut me open—and this time, they will pay for every drop of blood I've shed. I reclaim my mother's mysterious jade pendant, sell my luxury penthouse, and turn my mountain villa into an impenetrable fortress. With millions in cash, a dimensional storage space, and ten years of memories from the apocalypse, I'm ready for everything. Deadly heat. Collapsing power grids. Devastating floods. Freezing winters. Superpowers. Zombies. Let the world burn. I'll be ready. But then I meet Dante Moretti, a dangerously handsome military officer with sharp eyes, a powerful body, and far too many questions. "Who are you really, Isabella?" I smile. "Someone you should stay away from, Major." His gaze darkens. "Too late. You've already got my attention." As the world crumbles, my enemies come crawling back, desperate for my protection. Too bad. They sacrificed me once. This time, they'll learn what happens when the girl they betrayed becomes the queen of the apocalypse.

"What's that?" I whispered to myself as I felt something moved very fast behind me. It was very dark at night and a dim-lighted lamp was the only source of light I had to see my way home! "Oh my God!! What could that be?" I whispered to myself as it moved again, this time, I felt it getting closer to me. Suddenly, I heard a soft whisper close to my left ear: "She's back and will spare no one". I became more terrified and decided to run. As I was running, I felt that something was running after me, something I couldn't see. Just then, my foot hit a stone on the ground and I fell down with a loud thud, shattering the only source of light I had to pieces! And as I was trying to get back to my feet slowly, I was startled by what I perceived in my nostrils. It was as if what was chasing me was right before my face, but yet, I couldn't see it. I could only perceive the smell of warm human blood!

"Max DiSalvo gave his entire life to the SEALs. He would have married—he certainly enjoyed women—but he never could find one who understood his dedication to the Teams. It takes a certain caliber of woman to be a SEAL wife. Now, at 48, he is out of the SEALs, running his own commercial fishing company in Maine where he grew up, and waiting for his assignments from DHS.Regan Shaw, a SEAL widow, is an Intelligence Operations Specialist with DHS. Part of her job is analyzing information to assess threats, and she’s discovered a doozy—there is a secret group of very wealthy people who are smuggling terrorists into the country. And word has come down that a high-level member of the government is clearing the way for them.The group is about to have one of its executive meetings at an exclusive resort in Texas, and that’s where DHS is sending the two of them.SEAL Undercover is created by Desiree Holt, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author."

Six months before the zombie apocalypse, Felicity wakes up with full memories of her past life. In that timeline, she chose a sturdy house while her twin took a van. But her sister and boyfriend betrayed her, stealing the house, kicking her out, and laughing as they sold her to an enemy base for supplies. Reborn six months before the outbreak, Felicity willingly gives her sister the house and takes the van for herself. Unlocking its hidden system, she transforms her ride into an upgraded mobile fortress, builds an elite team, and prepares to dominate the apocalypse.