Books like Ashes of the earth by Eliot Pattison

After a nuclear disaster ravages America, Ben Raines—mercenary, soldier, and patriot—searches for his family while battling thieves, gangsters, and government forces to help rebuild a shattered society.

A teenager discovers he's a vampire and must navigate the world of rock stars and his own dark desires.

An archaeologist and a mysterious stranger must navigate Istanbul to find the Holy Grail before it falls into the wrong hands in this thrilling tale of the end of the world and forbidden knowledge.

Li Lan, a young woman in 1893 Malaysia, is offered a ghost marriage by the powerful Lim family to appease a restless spirit; she must navigate the Chinese afterlife and uncover family secrets before she is trapped forever.

A spellbinding novel of contemporary romantic suspense--the unforgettable story of a woman caught between love and vengeance... Manhattan attorney Claire Green is haunted by the brutal murder of her twin sister Zoe in a dangerous revenge scheme that soon implicates Claire. Claire's only hope of clearing her name is to bring her sister's murderer to justice on her own...before a second killer strikes. But someone else is dogging Claire's trail: relentless F.B.I. agent Liam Jameson, who has tracked her to New Orleans. With her own life threatened, Claire reluctantly joins forces with the enigmatic Jameson. Distrust quickly flames into desire. As Mardi Gras builds to fever pitch, they are inexorably drawn into a shadowy world where impeccable tradition cloaks deadly secrets and where no one--not Claire nor even Jameson--is safe from the shocking truth...

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A curated collection of thirty post‑apocalyptic short stories that explores the collapse, devastation, and eventual re‑imagining of civilization in American science fiction.