
MarcAs I've gotten older, I recognize that life is full of terrible irony. Lying undetected on the fringes of our day-to-day schedules, it's everywhere-like with the love that blindsided me and destroyed my entire family. I had spent long, hard years...
Marc and Dog: A Dual Quest for SurvivalDog is running for his life. Wrongly blamed after a child was taken, the wolf went deep into the wilderness to avoid human hunters. The last thing he wanted was to be shoved into someone else's flight for safety...
Life After War is a series of books about a group of people who live through a nuclear war and come together in the awful aftermath to help rebuild. Let me introduce a few of them. Adrian Mitchel is a lifelong Marine with a huge secret, one that...
2012 was the end of the world. All society and civilizations fell, leaving the survivors to fend for themselves. Few made it.
In book one:
Samantha:
After being taken from her Seattle office at gunpoint during the apocalypse, Samantha's c...
Safe Haven: A place of safety and of light, of duty and honor: A Refuge for survivors. Also: A place of death and darkness, where magic and murder go hand in hand. Angie and Marc have made it to Safe Haven and her Marine is already on the edge of ...
Three months after the nuclear world war that turned America into a dangerous wasteland, Safe Haven has made it from California to South Dakota. Adrian now has six of the gifted people he needs to ensure the survival of their country. However, not ev...
Will Controlled Chaos Be Enough To Free Them? Angela has moved Safe Haven to the Mountains of Georgia to make their stand. She has put a plan in motion that will free them all or get them all killed. For her, everything since the apocalypse has come ...
More Horror is Coming Safe Haven thinks they've endured the worst the apocalypse had to offer, but they've actually been lucky. That's about to change and the descendants can't stop it. Magic is powerless against radiation and other effects of a nucl...
We were supposed to have a home now, with walls and floors. The constant traveling, trying to outrun nature was going to be over. We were going to build a life that resembled what we had lost, full of peace and the pursuit of happiness. We'd earned i...
Safe Haven has just finished the first leg of a journey that will take them ten thousand miles before it is completed. Not quite half way in their quest to save what's left of their world, the survivors are now entering the m...
Safe Haven escaped America and set sail with infected kids, a traitor on board and outcast Eagles who'd been wandering the wastelands. All together again, the struggle to adapt is now their biggest challenge. When a harsh ...
Ocean TroubleDistractions have caused leadership to overlook a lethal problem that magic can't fix. Now, they'll just have to survive it. Safe Haven is going to relearn the two biggest lessons in an apocalypse–you can't avoid fate, and bad guys...
For Our FutureIt's been a year since the nuclear world war that brought down all societies and made survival the common goal. Safe Haven Refugee Camp has been there for all of it. People have come and gone, leaving an unforgettable mark on those arou...
We're Almost There!Safe Haven is ten days from Pitcairn Island. The trip has been long and filled with hardships that have cost too many lives. Dramas have exploded and been settled. Peace has been made between the normals and the magic users, for no...
It's Hard GroundSafe Haven has finally reached the island! It's been a long trip. Everyone is eager to set up a base camp and begin enjoying their promised years of peace. Angela told them they had to clear the island and then only personal dramas co...
Down to One. For Now.Safe Haven has had two main enemies since the nuclear war that devastated all societies—remaining governments and the force of nature. Now down to just one of those, thanks to a hard ground truce that Marc secured for the i...
Marc and the mission team have left Safe Haven on their protected island and embarked on a journey to stop the great reset. The enemy has everything they need to bring the world to its knees. If they succeed, everything our heroes have gone through w...
Angela and the rescue crew are eager to save their friends and family, but they're also snake hunting. Angela has sworn they won't come home until the final boss has been defeated. Rescuing the missing mission team is her secondary goal. Securing con...
With the plan to take over the normals now underway, it looks like smoother sailing from here on for Safe Haven's tired Eagles, but Nature is just as determined to eliminate them as she's always been. When a hurricane cuts them off from their island ...
The Longer You're In, The Harder It Is To Get OutNature provides amazing mysteries that have never been explained. We see them every day. We assume that it will always be there for us to marvel over.But what if it wasn't?What if the world as we know ...
The boss is back.The camp is happy about it.Jennifer isn't. Safe Haven is now recovering, healing, and growing. Births are nearing and deaths are becoming rare. Jennifer and her crew did an amazing job while Angela was gone.And that's the proble...
Safe Haven is doing well. People are getting along, the mission men are doing better, and Angela's blessed event is about to happen. Things are looking up for the busy camp, but life can change without any warning. All it takes is one simple accident...
Safe Haven Has ProblemsThe rage illness is reaching stage two and they don't have enough of the vaccine to save anyone. The fire wiped out their work on the island and burned some of the supplies they needed to survive. Angela's new daughter doesn't ...
Angela's time with Reicher had a peculiar effect. Even though she failed in her quest to get Fate on their side, she still achieved a goal by getting Reicher under control. The result of that was a strengthened determination to see her plans fully en...
Tonya's run is now underway. Without those supplies, Safe Haven won't survive on their island much longer. That has put a lot of pressure on her and every member of the team. With so much stress, it's only natural that some of them will snap. Ri...
The Life After War series follows the same core group of survivors as they travel across a ruined United States searching for safety and stability. Each book continues the ongoing story of leadership decisions, personal relationships, supernatural gifts, and the daily fight for survival in a dangerous new world.
🔴 Must Read in Order · Start with Book 1: The Survivors
Read in order—each book builds directly on the previous one.
The Life After War books in order must be read sequentially. The story follows a continuous narrative across all books, with events and character arcs carrying directly from one book to the next. Major plot developments, revelations about the past, and changes in group dynamics build upon previous volumes, so reading out of order causes confusion about the characters’ history and results in major spoilers for earlier events.
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Adrian Montes is the charismatic leader trying to build Safe Haven. Angela White is a powerful psychic and central figure whose abilities and personal journey drive much of the story. Other key characters include Marc Brady, Kenn, Samantha, and a large recurring cast of survivors whose lives and relationships evolve throughout the series.
The series is set in a post-nuclear United States several years after a global war. The story moves across ruined cities, deserts, mountains, and temporary camps as the group searches for a permanent home while dealing with radiation, mutated creatures, and hostile survivors.
The books deliver gritty post-apocalyptic fiction with strong elements of drama, romance, and action. Central themes include leadership and moral choices, found family, redemption, the cost of survival, and the struggle between hope and despair in a broken world.
This series appeals to readers who enjoy long-running post-apocalyptic stories with deep character development, complex relationships, and ongoing community-building. It suits fans of detailed survival fiction with romantic and supernatural elements.
The series contains strong violence, adult language, sexual content, and themes of trauma and loss. The heat level is moderate to high with explicit romance scenes in many volumes.
The Life After War series tells one long, interconnected story of survival and human connection in a ruined world. Reading the books in order is essential to follow the characters’ growth and the evolving challenges they face. Its detailed world and long-term character arcs have built a dedicated readership in the post-apocalyptic genre.
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