Novels

Explore novels that place ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances—stories of survival, courage, faith, and the choices that reveal who we are.

A forest trail illuminated by sunlight with two hikers walking away, carrying backpacks, and a shadowy figure appears in the trees ahead. The book title "The Silence Between the Trees" and the author's name "Shaun Kempf" are displayed over the scene.

The Silence Between the Trees

Literary Suspense • Now Available

Professor Maggie Wilson has six weeks to save her career by finding evidence of the unexplained creature that has haunted her since childhood. Guided into the Idaho wilderness by grieving tracker Wesley Thomas, she discovers that some truths may be more dangerous to expose than to leave hidden.

Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow

Time Travel Thriller • Now Available

Milwaukee police officer Matt Scheller begins receiving impossible warnings that place him at emergencies moments before disaster strikes. At first, Matt believes a mysterious guardian named “Stevie” may be watching over him—but when a strange intruder appears at a high-security research facility, Matt discovers the truth is far more dangerous.

Someone is manipulating his life from the future.

As Matt searches for answers, the line between heroism and control begins to blur, forcing him to confront the choices that define who he really is—and what happens when changing the past threatens to erase the future.

A young boy holding a backpack looks surprised at a ghostly girl, with a city street at sunset in the background and the title "Vanish" at the top.

Vanish

Middle Grade Supernatural • Now Available

Vanish follows Caleb, a withdrawn middle-school boy whose mother disappeared nearly two years ago. Caleb tries to remain unnoticed at school until he discovers that he can see and hear Lateesha, a spirited ghost girl who needs his help finding her mother and delivering one final message. As Caleb reluctantly joins the search, he gains an unexpected friendship, begins confronting his own grief, and learns that disappearing from life cannot protect him from being hurt—or from caring about others.

Amelia’s Journal: After the Silence

Post-Apocalyptic Survival Fiction • Coming Soon

When a deadly virus wipes out most of the world’s population, nineteen-year-old Amelia is left alone in her college dorm in Madison, Wisconsin.

After months of isolation, she makes a choice: leave the safety of campus and begin the nearly two-hundred-mile journey home to Marinette, hoping her parents are still alive.

Armed with a backpack, a bō staff, and a notebook she never expected to use, Amelia begins recording everything she sees along the way.

Empty streets. Abandoned homes. Unexpected friendships. And survivors who have discovered that when society disappears, so do many of the rules that once held people in check.

What begins as a journey home soon becomes something far more dangerous.

Decades later, Amelia’s notebook is discovered by historians studying the years after civilization collapsed.

It is the first known record of her journey.

And it may not be the last.

Book cover for "Infected Zone: Survivors of New York" by Shaun Kempf, depicting a post-apocalyptic scene with soldiers and zombies in a ruined New York City with dark clouds and emergency vehicles.

Infected Zone:
Survivors of New York

Zombie Apocalypse • Now Available

Infected Zone: Survivors of New York is a fast-paced post-apocalyptic military thriller set five years after Manhattan has been sealed off and abandoned to millions of infected. When Lieutenant Ben Hassinger and his elite Lone Rangers are sent into the quarantine zone on a classified rescue mission, they discover hundreds of survivors still living beneath the ruined city—and evidence that the infected may be changing. Trapped without extraction and forced to choose between orders and innocent lives, Ben and his team must fight their way through New York while confronting an enemy that may be learning how to hunt them.