Darrell Maloney

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  • Bibliography:
    80 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2012
  • Latest Book:
    August 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Alone

1 - Facing Armageddon (Jun-2014)
2 - An Unkind Winter (Aug-2014)
3 - The Journey (Mar-2015)
4 - The Battle (Sep-2015)
5 - Her Name Is Beth (Apr-2016)
6 - On Desert Sand (Oct-2016)
7 - Payback (Apr-2017)
8 - A Tearful Reunion (Sep-2017)
9 - A Stunning Betrayal (Jan-2018)
10 - Return to Ely (May-2018)
11 - Texas Bound (Sep-2018)
12 - A Long Road Home (Feb-2019)
13 - The Grim Reaper Comes Calling (Jul-2019)
14 - The Most Miserable Winter (Jan-2020)
15 - An Unwelcome Homecoming (Mar-2020)
16 - Back on the Move (Aug-2020)

Countdown to Armageddon

1 - Countdown to Armageddon (Jan-2014)
2 - After the Dust Settled (Mar-2014)
3 - Rise From The Ashes (Apr-2014)
4 - An Undeclared War (Aug-2014)
5 - The Homecoming (Mar-2015)
6 - The Quest (Jun-2015)
7 - Castroville (Jan-2016)
8 - Starting Over (Jul-2016)
9 - The Trouble with Charles (Jan-2017)
10 - An Acquired Taste (Jun-2017)
11 - A Troubling Turn of Events (Oct-2017)
12 - It Can't Be Her (Feb-2018)

Final Dawn

1 - Final Dawn (Mar-2013)
2 - Hidden (Nov-2013)
3 - Breakout (Mar-2014)
4 - The Siege (Jun-2014)
5 - The Army Comes Calling (Sep-2014)
6 - Missing (Apr-2015)
7 - The Search (Aug-2015)
8 - A Long Road Back (Jan-2016)
9 - A New Start (Aug-2016)
10 - Frozen (Feb-2017)
11 - One of Our Own (Jul-2017)
12 - Where Could He Be? (Nov-2017)
13 - Rest in Peace (Mar-2018)
14 - A Day of Reckoning (Jul-2018)
15 - This Changes Everything (Dec-2018)
16 - The Court Martial (Apr-2019)
17 - A Perilous Journey (Sep-2019)
18 - The Blockade (Feb-2020)
19 - Eden Bound (Jun-2020)

Pandemic

1 - The World is Changing (Nov-2018)
2 - A Day of Reckoning (Jun-2019)

Ranger

1 - Ranger (Feb-2016)
2 - A Whole New World (Sep-2016)
3 - Death Comes Calling (Mar-2017)
4 - Joey's Last Stand (Mar-2018)

Rebellion

1 - The Allegiance Device (Jul-2014)

Red

1 - The Adventure Begins (May-2015)
2 - Too Tough to Tame (Oct-2015)
3 - A Lesson Learned (Apr-2016)
4 - Return to Blanco (Oct-2016)
5 - No Help from Austin (Mar-2017)

The Secession of Texas

1 - The Secession of Texas (Feb-2013)
2 - Maribel (Aug-2013)

A Secret Life

1 - A Secret Life (Jun-2013)
2 - The Hunted (Feb-2014)
3 - And Justice for All (Oct-2014)
4 - A New Beginning (Nov-2015)

The Yellowstone Event

1 - Fire in the Sky (Feb-2017)
2 - A National Disgrace (Aug-2017)
3 - A Nation Gone Crazy (Dec-2017)
4 - Any Day Now (Apr-2018)
5 - The Eruption (Aug-2018)
6 - The Aftermath (Jan-2019)
7 - Life Goes On (Jun-2019)
8 - Everything Has Changed (Nov-2019)

Book List in Order: 80 titles

  • Life's Lessons From A Candy Machine

    Growing up in Texas in the 1960s wasn't always fun. But it was an incredible adventure. Life's Lessons From A Candy Machine is a series of short stories that document one boy's journey through adolescence and the teen years. It's sometimes funny, som...

  • Perspectives

    A sequel to last year's success "Life's Lessons From A Candy Machine," this book is a light-hearted look at simpler times. Growing up in the 1960s wasn't always fun, but it was a great adventure. Join the author as he goes back to a better time, befo...

  • The Secession of Texas

    The Secession of Texas - 1

    What would happen if Texas really did secede from the United States? Would it be everything Texans hoped it would be? Who would run the new government, and how would it operate? This is the story of a secession what never happened, but very well coul...

  • Final Dawn

    Final Dawn - 1

    The author of the best selling novel "The Secession of Texas" brings you "FINAL DAWN," an apocalyptic love story. What would you do if you finally found the love of your life and were making plans to spend eternity with them - and then found out that...

  • A Secret Life

    A Secret Life - 1

    Tony Hance was a good man who made a very bad mistake. Now he's on the run. He left behind everyone and everything he ever loved. This is a story of one man's struggle: against his past, his own personal demons, and those who would lock him away for ...

  • Maribel

    The Secession of Texas - 2

    At long last... "Maribel," the much awaited sequel to Darrell Maloney's blockbuster hit "The Secession of Texas." Maribel is a love story: the tale of one woman's passion for her country, the resort town she created, and the only man who could tame h...

  • Haunted Lubbock

    In 2013 the author asked the citizens of Lubbock for their personal ghost stories. He expected a handful at best. Instead, he got dozens. It turns out there are a lot of Lubbockites who have witnessed ghosts or spirits on the streets of Lubbock, in i...

  • The Cleansing

    On a dark summer night in Washington, D.C., a hundred people are murdered. There are no witnesses and no clues, except a small circular bruise on each victim's chest. The same thing happens in Chicago the next night, and in Phoenix the night after th...

  • Hidden

    Final Dawn - 2

    In Book 1 of this series, "Final Dawn", we met Hannah and Mark. She was a brilliant scientist, working for a NASA contractor. He was a successful engineer and a bit of a cornball. Together they made the perfect pair. They were a young couple in love,...



  • Countdown to Armageddon

    Countdown to Armageddon - 1

    Scott Harter was an average man. He wasn't dumb, but he'd never be invited to join Mensa either. He'd liked to have married a beauty queen, but his average looks certainly did nothing to attract any. Neither did his vanilla personality. No, Scott was...

  • American Armageddon

    This book is a cautionary tale. A modern democracy is a fragile thing. Laws must be balanced with freedoms. Corruption and greed must be controlled, without infringing on the rights of individuals to earn a living. Sometimes ideologies clash. Sometim...

  • The Hunted

    A Secret Life - 2

    At last, the much awaited sequel to last year’s blockbuster hit, “A Secret Life.” Tony Hance was a good kid, two years out of high school and grappling with his future. He had a job, and while it wasn’t glamorous, it paid his bills and kept h...

  • After the Dust Settled

    Countdown to Armageddon - 2

    In “Countdown to Armageddon,” we met Scott Harter. There was absolutely nothing special about Scott. He was just an ordinary guy living in the suburbs with a typical family and a dog named Duke. If anything set Scott apart from everybody else, it...

  • Breakout

    Final Dawn - 3

    The world has finally thawed. It's been seven long years since a meteorite called Saris 7 struck the earth and plunged it into a nuclear winter. Most of the world has perished. But there are pockets of survivors here and there. Hidden deep within an ...

  • Rise From The Ashes

    Countdown to Armageddon - 3

    Sometimes the best of plans fall short. Scott Harter thought he'd covered every base, and planned for everything. His family was safe and comfortable, months after solar storms destroyed modern society and turned the world's cities into killing groun...

  • My Forever

    From the author of last year’s blockbuster, “Maribel,” comes the latest chapter in the lives of Dawn and Charlie Bennett. Dawn and Charlie seemingly have everything. Now retired from politics, they have the freedom to pursue their dreams and th...

  • Facing Armageddon

    Alone - 1

    Dave and Sarah Anna Speer had been preparing for Armageddon for years. They thought they’d covered all the bases, and had planned for everything. It never occurred to them that the single thing they had no control over was the timing. Sarah was on ...

  • The Siege

    Final Dawn - 4

    The saga continues. Mark and Hannah, and their group of forty one, are just getting comfortable in their mountain hideaway. For six and a half years they’d scratched out a minimal existence in an old salt mine, waiting for the world to thaw. Now th...

  • The Allegiance Device

    Rebellion - 1

    There’s a certain element in our society that believes the federal government is using FEMA death camps, mind altering drugs, and tracking implants to control us all. These people are generally ridiculed and scorned. But what if they’re right? Me...



  • An Undeclared War

    Countdown to Armageddon - 4

    The saga continues. Near Kerrville, the compound comes under a vicious attack by a band of outlaws. Scott and John lead a group of men coming to their aid. The cavalry is on its way. But it's ninety miles away. The group fights valiantly but loses on...

  • An Unkind Winter

    Alone - 2

    Dave and Sarah Anna Speer had been preparing for Armageddon for years. They thought they’d covered all the bases, and had planned for everything. It never occurred to them that the single thing they had no control over was the timing. Sarah was on ...

  • The Army Comes Calling

    Final Dawn - 5

    The group of forty one had never had it easy. In the early days, just before a meteorite named Saris 7 struck the earth, their struggles were mostly those of conscience: how could they let themselves live while so many of their friends and loved ones...

  • And Justice for All

    A Secret Life - 3

    There were some things that weren’t in dispute. Before Tony Hance assumed another man’s identity and went on the run, he did indeed shoot and kill two people. The evidence was irrefutable. In his mind, he had no choice. It was him or them, and he...

  • The Homecoming

    Countdown to Armageddon - 5

    The saga continues. At the compound in Junction, life settles into a peaceful routine. Tom Haskins is regarded as a local hero for his role in killing the Garza gang and for putting their bodies on display as a warning to other marauders. He's asked ...

  • The Journey

    Alone - 3

    The author who brought you “Final Dawn” and “Countdown to Armageddon” now brings you the story of Dave Speer. Dave and his wife Sarah were preppers who saw the end coming and made plans to survive it. The one thing they had no control over, t...

  • Missing

    Final Dawn - 6

    For the group of forty one, life had never been easy. In their early days together, when a meteorite crashed into the earth and forced them into an abandoned salt mine to survive a seven year freeze, they battled together and endured. And after the t...

  • The Adventure Begins

    Red - 1

    Red was a bit of an enigma. She was all woman, and a beautiful one at that. She never really wanted the attention of the men who always seemed to vie for her affection, and she hated to break their hearts. But the fact was, few of them interested her...

  • The Quest

    Countdown to Armageddon - 6

    As the story winds down, the plot continues to twist and turn. Robbie, once an outstanding police officer and now teetering on the edge of insanity, moves forward with his plans to assassinate his friend John. But things don’t go according to plan....

  • The Search

    Final Dawn - 7

    For the forty one people who barricaded themselves in an abandoned salt mine to ride out Armageddon, life had never been easy. Even after the earth thawed and allowed them to venture out again, the world had become a dark and evil place. Other surviv...



  • The Battle

    Alone - 4

    Dave Speer was a prepper who knew something bad was coming. He didn't know what, exactly, or when. When the power finally went out it happened at the worst possible time: when his family was on an airliner bound for Kansas City. For a year Dave stumb...

  • Too Tough to Tame

    Red - 2

    Red never had it easy. After she lost her mom to cancer at a very young age, she was raised by her father to be tough. He meant well, he really did. But since she lacked female role models, she grew up a diamond in the rough. Tougher than most men an...

  • A New Beginning

    A Secret Life - 4

    The story of Tony Hance and the Lubbock murders draws to a close. He’s been through the wringer in the three years since two people were found shot to death on the floor of that seedy motel room. That they died at Tony’s hand was never in questio...

  • Castroville

    Countdown to Armageddon - 7

    Tom Haskins is near death, severely beaten and taken prisoner by the vilest man in south central Texas. He knows that young Sara and their Texas Ranger friend are coming to rescue him. But he doesn’t know when or how. He’s determined to try to he...

  • A Long Road Back

    Final Dawn - 8

    The original group of forty who went into Salt Mountain has changed in so many ways. Some are dead now. Others have taken their place. All have seen the worst of humanity in a cold and increasingly harsh world. One in which those lucky enough to have...

  • Ranger

    Ranger - 1

    Randy was a man born in the wrong era. For he lived in modern times but had the soul of a gentle cowboy. He tipped his hat and opened doors for strangers. He said “yes ma’am” and “no sir” when it was neither required nor expected. He was ki...

  • Her Name Is Beth

    Alone - 5

    For a year after the biggest disaster ever to strike mankind, Dave Speer was all alone. Stranded in a tiny safe room in a house he’d gone through great lengths to make appear vacant, he led as miserable a life as any of the survivors. Then the ...

  • A Lesson Learned

    Red - 3

    Red was what old-timers call a “strange breed.” She was all woman, and a beautiful one at that. She never really wanted the attention of the men who always seemed to vie for her affection, and she hated to break their hearts. But the fact was, fe...

  • Starting Over

    Countdown to Armageddon - 8

    The story continues… Not even the preppers expected a one-two punch that would bring the world to its knees once again. Everything has changed, and not for the better. An already chaotic world has become more volatile. Like a platoon suddenly findi...

  • A New Start

    Final Dawn - 9

    It’s been ten long years since Mark and Hannah led a small group of loved ones into the bowels of Salt Mountain. A disaster of Biblical proportions was coming. A meteorite which would turn the skies black and plummet the earth into a deep freeze fo...



  • A Whole New World

    Ranger - 2

    The power’s gone out. To make things worse, all transportation has ground to a halt. Scientists say it’s the result of massive solar storms on the surface of the sun. They also say it’s permanent. The world has descended into chaos. People are ...

  • On Desert Sand

    Alone - 6

    Albuquerque’s been taken over by gangs and thugs. They’ve divided the once proud city into pieces of turf, and forced most of the residents to leave. Dave would like to be able to pass it by. The problem is that the only lead he has regarding...

  • Return to Blanco

    Red - 4

    Red’s work in Lubbock is finished. Jesse Luna is dead, and Red now has all the pieces to the puzzle. At least the important ones. She now knows who was involved in the murders of her family. And she’s headed back to Blanco to exact vengeance. In ...

  • The Trouble with Charles

    Countdown to Armageddon - 9

    In a sense they were lucky, although few would consider themselves so. They were the tiny percentage of Americans who’d survived the blackout, although there was a good argument to be made it would have been easier to just give up. Most of the othe...

  • Fire in the Sky

    The Yellowstone Event - 1

    Here are some fun facts about the Yellowstone Caldera:-It's a real thing. It really does exist-It's a super volcano simmering just beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park-It has erupted in the past, and will erupt again-Scientists believ...

  • Frozen

    Final Dawn - 10

    It’s happened. Their worst fears have come true. A tumbling meteorite named Cupid 23 comes barreling to earth, wiping out the tiny German town of Spangdahlem. Millions of tons of earth are thrown up into the atmosphere and the sky turns a dirty bro...

  • Death Comes Calling

    Ranger - 3

    It’s a troubling, yet also fulfilling time in Ranger Randy’s life. The Ranger detachment loses another of their own. And it couldn’t happen at a worse time, for Randy’s still feeling guilt over his partner’s death. And Tom’s killers are s...

  • No Help from Austin

    Red - 5

    RED: THE FINAL CHAPTER Blanco was a tiny Texas town on edge. The residents had been under the thumb of a brutal banker for a very long time. He used the legal system to steal from them. To cheat them. And even to murder some of them. It might have go...

  • Payback

    Alone - 7

    Three steps forward and one step back. Those words, more than anything, described Dave Speer’s personal journey of late. Eighteen months have now passed since a worldwide blackout has brought humanity to its knees. Most haven’t survived. Those mo...

  • An Acquired Taste

    Countdown to Armageddon - 10

    Two years after the blackout Alamo Plaza and the once proud San Antonio Riverwalk have lost their luster. They’re now inhabited by a hodge-podge of characters: some evil, some desperate, some starving, some borderline insane. John Castro and R.J. S...



  • One of Our Own

    Final Dawn - 11

    The latest volume in Darrell Maloney’s most popular series has more twists and turns than a slalom course. At Joint Base San Antonio crowds gather at the site of a once-secret underground bunker. Inside are hundreds of Washington insiders who’ve ...

  • A National Disgrace

    The Yellowstone Event - 2

  • A Tearful Reunion

    Alone - 8

    Dave finally catches up with Beth’s kidnappers and drags Sal from the wagoneer’s bench. He’s in the process of beating Sal to death when he’s stopped by a little girl’s plaintive cries. “Daddy, stop! You’re hurting him!” The tiny voic...

  • A Troubling Turn of Events

    Countdown to Armageddon - 11

    After two long years of struggling, one might think it would have gotten easier. One would be wrong. The ten percent who were lucky enough to have survived the two waves of electromagnetic pulses didn’t consider themselves so… lucky, that is. In ...

  • Where Could He Be?

    Final Dawn - 12

    The world is once again in chaos. For the second time in ten years a meteorite strikes the earth. The skies are once again filled with a dirty brown dust which largely blocks out the sun and sends the earth into a deep freeze. Millions are giving up ...

  • A Nation Gone Crazy

    The Yellowstone Event - 3

    The cat’s finally out of the bag. A coming catastrophe the United States government has been trying desperately to keep secret is now known around the world. The super volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park has gone active. Scientists can’t ag...

  • A Stunning Betrayal

    Alone - 9

    Dave’s quest to find his daughter was long and arduous. It was dangerous too, fraught with situations which almost killed him more than once. But find her he did, and now they were on their way back to Kansas City. The journey back would be no easi...

  • It Can't Be Her

    Countdown to Armageddon - 12

    Sara has gone missing while searching for a serial killer in Kerrville. Volunteers from far and wide are called in for the search. Then a body is discovered. A body so badly burned it's barely recognizable as a human being. And pinned to the body is ...

  • Joey's Last Stand

    Ranger - 4

    THE FINAL CHAPTER IN THE “RANGER” SERIES. The city of Lubbock is slowly adapting to a world without power. The citizens are relearning the ways of their ancestors and coming up with innovative new ways to survive. The students of Texas Tech Unive...

  • Rest in Peace

    Final Dawn - 13

    The world’s frozen over again and everyone is struggling in his or her own way to survive. Frank’s still stuck in the tiny town of Plainview. The snow pack is four feet deep now and he’s not going anywhere anytime soon. But he and Josie are bec...

  • Any Day Now

    The Yellowstone Event - 4

    The United States is in turmoil. The Yellowstone Caldera is rumbling to life. An incompetent government is telling people not to panic; that there’s plenty of time to evacuate the area and to deal with the problem. Dr. Wayne Hamlin knows the truth....

  • Return to Ely

    Alone - 10

    It hasn’t been an easy journey for Dave Spear. On his cross-country trek he’s been shot at, beaten up, robbed, waylaid and left for dead. But it was all worth it. Now he’s on the verge of finally reuniting his family, separated during a worldwi...

  • A Day of Reckoning

    Final Dawn - 14

  • The Eruption

    The Yellowstone Event - 5

    Beneath Yellowstone National Park a super-volcano has started rumbling. It's been there for a very long time, though most Americans are not aware of it. Every three hundred thousand years or so it erupts with devastating consequences. Scientists say ...

  • Texas Bound

    Alone - 11

  • The World is Changing

    Pandemic - 1

  • This Changes Everything

    Final Dawn - 15

  • The Aftermath

    The Yellowstone Event - 6

  • A Long Road Home

    Alone - 12

  • The Court Martial

    Final Dawn - 16

  • A Day of Reckoning

    Pandemic - 2

  • Life Goes On

    The Yellowstone Event - 7

  • The Grim Reaper Comes Calling

    Alone - 13

  • A Perilous Journey

    Final Dawn - 17

  • Everything Has Changed

    The Yellowstone Event - 8

  • Alone

    It's been said that the best laid plans sometimes go awry. For Dave Spear that isn't the exception, but rather the rule, for he's had an awfully long string of bad luck lately. His plans to make it back to San Antonio before winter sets in are on ind...

  • The Most Miserable Winter

    Alone - 14

  • The Blockade

    Final Dawn - 18

  • An Unwelcome Homecoming

    Alone - 15

  • Eden Bound

    Final Dawn - 19

  • Back on the Move

    Alone - 16

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Darrell Maloney has published 80 books.

Darrell Maloney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Back on the Move, was published in August 2020.

The first book by Darrell Maloney, Life's Lessons From A Candy Machine, was published in November 2012.

Yes. Darrell Maloney has 10 series.
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