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  Will the nuclear holocaust deliver a final victory to the human race, or will the survivors face their own extinction in a world overrun with monsters and strange new races?

  Get Next #3: Radiophobia at Amazon US or Amazon UK

  See how the apocalypse started!

  After #1: The Shock

  A massive solar storm erases the world's technological infrastructure and kills billions. While the remaining humans are struggling to adapt and survive, they notice that some among them have...changed.

  Rachel Wheeler finds herself alone in the city, where violent survivors known as "Zapheads" roam the streets, killing and destroying. Her only hope is to reach the mountains, where her grandfather, a legendary survivalist, established a compound in preparation for Doomsday.

  Other survivors are fleeing the city, but Zapheads aren't the only danger. Rogue bands of military soldiers want to impose their own order in the crumbling ruins of civilization. When Rachel discovers a 10-year-old boy, she vows to care for him even at the risk of her own life.

  And the Zapheads are evolving, developing communal skills even as they lay waste to the society they will eventually replace.

  Get After #1: The Shock free at Amazon US or Amazon UK

  Zapheads #1: Bone and Cinder

  An After spinoff series

  By Scott Nicholson and Joshua Simcox

  When Mackie Dailey survives a cataclysmic solar storm that wipes out civilization and mutates others into violent killers, he seeks out the one person he cares about most.

  But when he returns to a college campus looking for Allie, he discovers she is a Zaphead—nearly unrecognizable as the human he once loved. Mackie becomes caught in a power struggle among a small group of survivors who turn the campus into a stronghold against the Zaphead threat. His old nemesis, Lucas Krider, has taken charge, but Krider’s vision of a new world is just as horrifying as the extinction they all face.

  Will Mackie sacrifice himself so the group has a chance to survive, or will his demons turn out to be more dangerous than the strange, rampaging creatures that nature has unleashed?

  See Zapheads #1: Bone and Cinder at Amazon US or Amazon UK

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  About the author:

  Scott Nicholson is the international bestselling author of more than 20 thrillers, including the After post-apocalyptic thriller series, the Solom supernatural series, The Home, Disintegration, Liquid Fear, Speed Dating with the Dead. His books have appeared in the Kindle Top 100 more than a dozen times in five different countries.

  Visit his website at AuthorScottNicholson.com or view his Amazon Author Central page. Sign up for the Tao of Boo newsletter for giveaways and book releases.

  Thanks to Sharon Stogner at Devil in the Details editing, as well as proofreaders Meghan Gurley, Frank Pero, Carole McLaughlin, Ronaldo Knox, and technical advisor Steve Lowe, SSRG (R).

  VIEW OTHER KINDLE BOOKS BY SCOTT NICHOLSON:

  Novels

  After #0: First Light

  After #1: The Shock

  After #2: The Echo

  After #3: Milepost 291

  After#4: Whiteout

  After #5: Red Scare

  After #6: Dying Light

  Next #1: Afterburn

  Next #2: Earth Zero

  Next #3: Radiophobia

  Next #4: Directive 17

  Zapheads #1: Bone and Cinder

  Zapheads #2: Scars and Ashes

  Zapheads #3: Blood and Frost

  The Scarecrow (Solom #1)

  The Narrow Gate (Solom #2)

  The Preacher (Solom #3)

  The Home

  McFall

  Creative Spirit

  Disintegration

  The Red Church

  Speed Dating with the Dead

  The Skull Ring

  Drummer Boy

  The Harvest

  Kiss Me or Die

  Liquid Fear

  Chronic Fear

  Cursed (with J.R. Rain)

  Bad Blood (with J.R. Rain & H.T. Night)

  Spider Web (with J.R. Rain)

  Spider Bite (with J.R. Rain)

  Ghost College (with J.R. Rain)

  The Vampire Club (with J.R. Rain)

  Meat Camp (with J.T. Warren)

  Playin’ Possum (with Milton Bagby)

  October Girls

  Crime Beat

  The Dead Love Longer

  Fangs In Vain

  Burial to Follow

  Story Collections

  Curtains

  Flowers

  Ashes

  The First

  Zombie Bits

  Head Cases

  Gateway Drug

  Missing Pieces

  These Things Happened

  American Horror

  Children’s Books

  If I Were Your Monster (with Lee Davis)

  Too Many Witches (with Lee Davis)

  Ida Claire (with Lee Davis)

  Duncan the Punkin (with Sergio Castro)

  Bad Day for Balloons (with Sergio Castro)

  VIEW U.K. KINDLE BOOKS BY SCOTT NICHOLSON:

  Next #1: Afterburn

  Next #2: Earth Zero

  Next #3: Radiophobia

  After: First Light

  After #1: The Shock

  After #2: The Echo

  After: #3: Milepost 291

  After #4: Whiteout

  After #5: Red Scare

  After #6: Dying Light

  The Scarecrow (Solom #1)

  The Narrow Gate (Solom #2)

  The Preacher (Solom #3)

  Zapheads #1: Bone and Cinder

  Zapheads #2: Scars and Ashes

  Zapheads #3: Blood and Frost

  McFall

  Liquid Fear

  Chronic Fear

  Creative Spirit

  The Home

  The Gorge

  Disintegration

  The Red Church

  Speed Dating with the Dead

  The Skull Ring

  Drummer Boy

  The Harvest

  Kiss Me or Die

  Cursed (with J.R. Rain)

  Ghost College (with J.R. Rain)

  The Vampire Club (with J.R. Rain)

  Bad Blood (with J.R. Rain & H.T. Night)

  Spider Web (with J.R. Rain)

  Spider Bite (with J.R. Rain)

  Meat Camp (with J.T. Warren)

  Playin’ Possum (with Milton Bagby)

  October Girls

  Crime Beat

  The Dead Love Longer

  Burial to Follow

  Fangs In Vain

  Collections

  Curtains

  Flowers

  Ashes

  The First

  Zombie Bits

  Head Cases

  Gateway Drug

  Missing Pieces

  These Things Happened

  Children’s Books

  Bad Day for Balloons (with Sergio Castro)

  If I Were Your Monster (with Lee Davis)

  Duncan the Punkin (with Sergio Castro)

  Too Many Witches (with Lee Davis)

  Ida Claire (with Lee Davis)

  Table of Contents

  Next #2: Earth Zero

  Quotes

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29 />
  Chapter 30

  Next #3: Radiophobia

  After: The Shock

  Zapheads: Bone and Cinder

  About Scott Nicholson

  Other Scott Nicholson Books

  Scott’s UK Kindle links