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About T. L. Payne
T. L. Payne is the author of several bestselling post apocalyptic EMP survival series such as Days of Want, Gateway to Chaos, Fall of Houston, and Survive the Collapse. T.L. enjoys hiking, fishing, and other outdoor activities in the Osage Hills of Oklahoma.
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The nation goes dark. Technology fails. Help isn’t coming.
An EMP has destroyed the nation’s power grid and the country is plunged into darkness and chaos during one of the coldest midwest winters on record.
Seeking Safety
Pre-med student Raine Caldwell is in a race against time. Eight hundred miles from home and separated from her parents, Raine is forced onto the dangerous streets of St. Louis, Missouri.
A storm is brewing…
While fires rage, deadly gangs roam the streets. After joining a group of fellow survivors, it becomes a fight for survival as they race to escape the city before the violence and a bitter winter storm overtakes them.
Seeking Refuge
Can ordinary people survive the apocalypse? Raine Caldwell is about to find out.
The government isn’t coming to rescue her. If Raine and her group are going to make it, they must save themselves.
The realization that the lights were not coming back on anytime soon hit them hard. When things go from bad to worse, they must act quickly in search of a refuge from the cold and violent city.
Seeking Justice
Raine Caldwell and the other survivors from St. Louis thought getting out of the city would be the answer to their problems. They quickly learn that violence and winter’s fury aren’t exclusive to the city.
The group is tested far beyond anything they could imagine as they begin to settle in and survive life without modern conveniences.
Can they adapt to the new world in time?
After finding themselves in a community terrorized by ruthless and dangerous people, Raine and the others in her group must pull together to find justice when one of their own is taken.
Can they pull the community together, or will it be pulled further apart?
Seeking Hope
In the weeks since an EMP attack left their world in chaos, Raine Caldwell and her group have escaped St. Louis only to find trouble at the farm in St. Francois County. With the cartel defeated and new alliances formed with the locals, they thought their problems were over.
But the battle was only beginning.
Can our group of weary survivors find hope amid the chaos?
In an instant, everything stops. No lights. No phones. No transportation.
When coordinated EMP and Cyber attacks wipe out the nation’s power grid and communications, ultra marathon runner, Maddie Langston, is forced to run for her life.
Stranded in a Chicago airport when the lights go out, Maddie is in a race against time. According to her father, she doesn’t have long before the city descends into chaos. She must leave the airport before it is too late.
Although she knows she must flee the Windy City, Maddie’s first battle is to overcome her fear of the violence she knows is coming. She’s a fighter; she just doesn’t know it yet.
The perilous journey out of the city becomes even more difficult when Maddie takes responsibility for an orphaned ten-year-old girl. Together, as chaos fills the streets, they must fight to survive in a Turbulent new world.
Would you have what it takes to survive?
This heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller is the first book in T. L. Payne's Days of Want Series.
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Turbulent has recently undergone a second round of professional edits to take care of those pesky typos.
OTHER BOOKS BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR T.L. PAYNE
Days of Want Series
Hunted
Turmoil
Uprising
Upheaval
Mayhem
Defiance
Gateway to Chaos Series
Seeking Safety
Seeking Refuge
Seeking Justice
Seeking Hope
Fall of Houston Series
No Way Out
No Other Choice
No Turning Back
No Surrender
No Man's Land
The unthinkable has happened.
The World goes dark. All technology is lost.
An EMP attack takes out the power grid putting two hundred miles and a dangerous crew of hired assassins between former police detective Sam Wallace and his family.
Sam knew this assignment could be dangerous, but now he has to protect the witness and fight his way back home to his family without transportation and technology.
Lauren Wallace is one hundred miles from home picking up Sam’s son, Charlie, at the airport when the lights go out. She and thirteen-year-old Charlie have no way home when danger spikes. As darkness approaches, they discover nowhere is safe.
Brink of Darkness is a high-octane, post-apocalyptic EMP survival thriller. Look for book two, Brink of Chaos, coming August 31st.
Two weeks after an electromagnetic pulse knocked out the power grid, communications, and nearly all transportation, sending that nation back into the Stone Age, Lauren Wallace and the small eastern Tennessee town of Unicoi struggles to survive as residents hunker behind their newly constructed walls.
Sam Wallace, injured and exhausted from his trek out of Atlanta, finds refuge in Franklin, North Carolina. But trouble comes knocking when the town’s tourist population refuses to go home.
Brink of Chaos is book two in the fast-paced, gripping post-apocalyptic EMP survival series, Survive the Collapse.
Hunted and on the run.
A decision to make.
…one that will tear Maddie’s heart out.
Just when Maddie thinks she has reached safety at her uncle’s farm, a new threat emerges sending her on the run in a race for her life.
Forced to flee the farm, she and her group must find a way to escape those chasing them. Hunted by government officials, with danger at every turn, Maddie is forced to make a heart wrenching decision to protect the ones she loves.
Will she make the right choice?
With their mother’s fate still unknown, Maddie and her brother, Zach, are more determined than ever to reach their cabin deep in the Missouri Ozarks.
Can they evade capture to be reunited with their mother?
You will love Hunted, the second pulse-pounding post-apocalyptic thriller in the Days of Want Series, because everyone wants to know they can survive.
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OTHER BOOKS BY TL PAYNE
Days of Want Series
Turbulent
Hunted
Turmoil
Uprising
Upheaval
Mayhem
Gateway to Chaos Series
Seeking Safety
Seeking Refuge
Seeking Justice
Seeking Hope
Look for the Fall of Houston Series coming November 30, 2020.
After defeating Nelson and his crew, Maddie and her group from Evening Shade are ready for some rest and relaxation before the big push to prepare for another post-apocalyptic winter. But trouble once again finds our group and this time, it is knocking at their back door.
News from Rank and his new friends down south rocks Maddie’s world and ignite her worse fears. She’ll be forced to make tough decisions, ones that she isn’t prepared to make. It will take a miracle—or an army to defeat this enemy and preserve their homestead.
Defiance is book seven in the Days of Want series.OTHER BOOKS BY T. L. PAYNE
Days of Want Series
Turbulent
Hunted
Turmoil
Uprising
Upheaval
Mayhem
Defiance
Gateway to Chaos Series
Seeking Safety
Seeking Shelter
Seeking Justice
Seeking Hope
Fall of Houston Series
No Way Out
No Other Choice
No Turning Back
No Surrender
No Man’s Land
After surviving the prison riots and deadly skirmishes with the wanna-be dictator of Texas County, Maddie and her group are left with dwindling resources, unprepared for the harsh winter ahead.
Old friends pitch in to help until a more deadly foe arrives to put all of their lives at risk.
A daring mission to St. Louis for precious lifesaving supplies has deadly consequences. Will they have the courage it takes to make it back in time?
As the long, hard winter takes its deadly toll and gives way to spring, a force no weapon can defeat threatens the group. Can they pull together under its weight or will they all be lost?
Upheaval is Book Five in T. L. Payne’s heart-stopping series, Days of Want. Look for Mayhem, book six in the Days of Want series.,/p>
OTHER BOOKS BY TL PAYNE
Days of Want Series
Turbulent
Hunted
Turmoil
Uprising
Upheaval
Mayhem
Gateway to Chaos Series
Seeking Safety
Seeking Refuge
Seeking Justice
Seeking Hope
Nine months after the lights went out, Maddie Langston and the other survivors in Texas County just want to replenish their food stores and prepare for the next winter but an unexpected encounter with a stranger takes all their lives in a whole new direction.
It's not just their lives on the line this time. The survival of entire nation could be at stake.
Mayhem is book six in the Days of Want series. The story continues in Defiance, book seven.
OTHER BOOKS IN THIS SERIES
TurbulentHunted
Turmoil
Uprising
Upheaval
Mayhem
Defiance
OTHER BOOKS BY TL PAYNE
Fall of Houston Series
No Way Out
No Other Choice
No Turning Back
No Surrender
No Man's Land
Gateway to Chaos Series
Seeking SafetySeeking Refuge
Seeking Justice
Seeking Hope
…from an unexpected source.
Lives hang in the balance.
As Maddie, Zack, and their group struggle to secure the cabin, the community grapples to find justice in a lawless world when a girl goes missing.
Amid turmoil and bloodshed, Maddie learns evil comes in all shapes and sizes.
No one can be trusted.
After Maddie and Zack find old enemies nearby, a decision must be made—hunker down and wait, or go on the offensive.
Which would you choose?
Filled with grief and guilt, Maddie must find a way to move forward and survive. As lives are lost will this become too much to bear?
On the road to reunite with Maddie and Zack, Beth’s trip takes a twisted turn. She won’t let a deviant group prevent her from reaching her children.
You will love Turmoil, the third heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller in the Days of Want series.
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Texas County, Missouri is a powder keg ready to blow.
As winter approaches, small-town issues become big trouble.
Maddie Langston and her group of post-apocalyptic survivors are stretched thin.
Vengeful old foes take advantage of weakened defenses.
Without support, as supplies dwindle, citizens are forced to take matters into their own hands. Mounting tensions and soaring risks begin to topple traditional priorities.
Can the big guns stem the tide or will a flood of 600 maximum-security inmates saturate the heartland?
Death at every doorstep. Impossible choices.
Will Maddie’s group pay the ultimate price in a society gone savage?
Uprising is the four book in the Days of Want series.
This pulse-pounding, post-apocalyptic thriller is the fourth book in T. L. Payne's Days of Want series. Look for Upheaval: Days of Want, Book Five
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Other Books By TL Payne
Days of Want Series
Turbulent
Hunted
Turmoil
Uprising
Upheaval
Mayhem
Gateway to Chaos Series
Seeking Safety
Seeking Refuge
Seeking Justice
Seeking Hope
Fall of Houston Series (Coming November 30, 2020!)
No Way out
No Other Choice
No Turning Back
No Surrender
Wounded and weary from their battle at the military base, Will and Isabella want to rest and gather their strength for what lies ahead. But as the military continues to battle foreign insurgents bent on gaining control of Houston, Will and the others must flee the city or risk being pulled back into the fight.
The trip out of Houston won’t be easy.
Danger awaits them at every turn as they make their way across East Texas.
Desperate and dangerous people have flooded the roadways fleeing the fighting ravaging the city. It becomes a constant struggle for survival. But with Houston now a war zone, there’s no turning back.
No Turning Back is the third book in the Fall of Houston series. Look for book four, No Surrender.
OTHER BOOKS BY AUTHOR TL PAYNE
Fall of Houston Series
No Way Out
No Other Choice
No Turning Back
No Surrender
No Man's Land
Days of Want Series
Turbulent
Hunted
Turmoil
Uprising
Upheaval
Mayhem
Defiance
Gateway to Chaos Series
Seeking Safety
Seeking Refuge
Seeking Justice
Seeking Hope
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