When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.

"New Jersey state police officer Doug Brock has been after infamous criminal Nicholas Bennett for years. When Bennett kills someone close to Doug, however, Doug's investigation--and his life--start spiraling out of control. He's placed on indefinite suspension from the police force and breaks things off with his fianceé but he can't let the case go, and he continues an off-the-books investigation on his own. When Doug's former partner on the force,...

"Berlin, 1939. The city is blanketed by snow and ice. In the distance, the rumble of war grows louder. In the shadows, a serial killer rises... As the Nazis tighten their chokehold on the capital, panic and paranoia fester as blackout is rigidly enforced. Every night the city is plunged into an oppressive, suffocating darkness--pitch-perfect conditions for unspeakable acts. When a young woman is found brutally murdered, it's up to Criminal Inspector...

Homeland meets Marie Lu's Legend in Blackout, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Ally Condie called "a thrilling combination of Wells's trademark twists and terror. Fantastic! "Laura and Alec are highly trained teenage terrorists. Jack and Aubrey are small-town high school students. There was no reason for their paths ever to cross. But now a mysterious virus is spreading throughout America, infecting teenagers with impossible superpowers-and...

In a city that operates on technology, a power outage brings catastrophe, but in darkness comes opportunity.It hurts. Night City hurts. The suffering runs deep and the deeper one falls, the longer the self-prescribed dreams play. Fortune, hope, love—all made possible by DMS technology. A braindance repairman's daily encounters with his clients reveal the deterioration of the human mind and the desperation driving those to surrender to illusion....

Edgy thriller following a man battling with his own soul as he makes a stab at salvation. Daniel Demoys has had it all - a loving wife, kids and the chance to make the world a better place. He's also an alcoholic and drug addict, and his behaviour is fast driving a wedge between him and his family. But when Daniel wakes up from another drunken night with blood stained hands, and realises he might be responsible for a murder, he is driven to despair....

On July 13, 1977, there was a blackout in New York City. With the dark came excitement, adventure, and fright in subway tunnels, office towers, busy intersections, high-rise stairwells, hotel lobbies, elevators, and hospitals. There was revelry in bars and restaurants, music and dancing in the streets. On block after block, men and women proved themselves heroes by helping neighbors and strangers make it through the night. Unfortunately, there was...

Bologna in August: unbearable heat, an empty city. Claudia is a young student in a hurry to return home from her work as a waitress and get out of the skimpy uniform she hates. Tomas is a young man on his way to elope to Amsterdam with his girlfriend, Francesca. Aldo is a husband and father with an uncanny resemblance to Elvis Presley, anxious to get to an apartment filled with guilty secrets. All three have an urgent need to be somewhere else. Instead,...

When a blackout and a computer virus sweeps the nation ... Margot is at home in Vermont. She hopes that skimming through old Little House on the Prairie books will help her learn enough to grow and preserve food for winter. Too bad, there are no books to help her stay cool when Ronan Murphy is around. Caleb is in Wyoming with his dad, who is probably not the best person, to get Caleb safely to Vermont. But since, Caleb doesn't have a choice, he straps...

Riley Covington is still reeling from his father's brutal murder when he learns he's been traded. Meanwhile, the counterterrorism division has detected a plot to detonate electromagnetic pulse bombs that could leave the U.S. without power, communications, and transportation-right down to dropping planes out of the sky. CTD scrambles to stop the attacks, but they run out of time. Amid the fallout, Riley, Scott, Skeeter, and CTD must regroup to make...