Blackout

This 50-page digital original novella introduces readers to Blackout, a series by acclaimed author Robison Wells that combines the high-stakes intensity of television's Homeland with the lightning-fast action of Marie Lu's Legend. Something strange is happening to Krezi. She has a dangerously high fever her doctors can't explain, and objects keep bursting into flames around her-but the fire doesn't seem to hurt her at all. Krezi wants nothing more than to control her mysterious abilities. But what she doesn't know is that there are others like her out there... and in the wrong hands, this power could be deadly. Going Dark also features a teaser to Blackout. Epic Reads Impulse is a digital imprint with new releases each month.

Mark and his wife Erin are in the middle of an argument when the lights go out.It's just a blackout. A summer grid failure. The kind of thing that happens when the heat index holds above ninety-five for too many days. Nothing to worry about.Then he finds the blood.A physician trained to read trauma scenes, Mark follows the evidence through his dark house with the cold precision of a man who has learned to stay behind the glass. He knows what the blood volume means. He knows what the spray pattern means. He knows, before he is ready to know it, exactly what has happened in his basement tonight.What he doesn't know - what he can't know - is what is happening on the other side of his neighbor's fence.The Husband is the first book in The Blackout series - a relentless, multi-POV psychological thriller in which the same catastrophic night unfolds through four different sets of eyes. Told entirely from Mark's perspective, this is the story of a man whose medical training gives him every answer except the one he needs most.For readers who love The Silent Patient, I Am Pilgrim, and The Chain - a propulsive, suffocating thriller that doesn't let you breathe until the final line.Book One of four. Continue the night in The Witness, available now. Ion Esimai is the author of The Sleeper's Mole. An intriguing thriller that sets the stage for a head-on collision between the superpowers of Russia, China, and the US. He lives with his wife and children in Northern New Jersey.

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 all teens are being rounded up, dragged to government testing facilities, and drafted into the army to fight terrorism. Suddenly, Jack, Laura, Aubrey, and Alec find their lives intertwined in a complex web of deception, loyalty, and catastrophic danger-where one wrong choice could trigger an explosion that ends it all.

Chloe has been planning her escape for four days.Sneak out the bedroom window after dark. Cross the backyard. Meet Tyler two streets over. Be back before anyone notices.Simple.Then the power grid fails - and the neighborhood goes completely, utterly dark.For Chloe, the blackout isn't a problem. It's cover. No porch lights. No security cameras. No one watching.She couldn't be more wrong.What she sees through the gap in the fence changes everything. She has footage no one was supposed to capture, on a phone with no signal, in a neighborhood with no power - and the man on the other side of that fence knows exactly what she saw.The Witness is the second book in The Blackout series - a relentless, multi-POV psychological thriller in which the same catastrophic night unfolds through four different sets of eyes. Told entirely from Chloe's perspective, this is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl who did everything right when everything went wrong - and the night that will define the rest of her life.For readers who love Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and Local Gone Missing - a propulsive, suffocating thriller that will have you holding your breath from the first page to the last.Can be read standalone or as part of the full series. Ion Esimai is the author of The Sleeper's Mole. An intriguing thriller that sets the stage for a head-on collision between the superpowers of Russia, China, and the US. He lives with his wife and children in Northern New Jersey.

Homeland meets Marie Lu's Legend in the explosive sequel to Blackout, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Ally Condie called "a thrilling combination of Wells's trademark twists and terror. Fantastic!" It began with a virus. Then a series of attacks erupted across the nation. Now America is at war-and a handful of teens with impossible powers are its only defense. In Dead Zone, Robison Wells delivers his most nail-bitingly tense read yet-and an electrifying conclusion to a two-book series that's perfect for fans of The Maze Runner and I Am Number Four.

Arthur Pruitt has spent eleven years being overlooked.He knows every house on the cul-de-sac. Every routine. Every secret kept behind closed curtains and perfect lawns. As Neighborhood Watch Captain, he has logged every deviation, every unfamiliar car, every light left on past midnight - and no one has ever once taken him seriously.Tonight, the power grid fails.The security cameras go dark. The alarm systems go silent. Every advantage money can buy disappears in a single metallic crack from a transformer on Route 9.And Arthur is already in position.While his neighbors stumble through the blackout in blind, helpless panic, Arthur watches. What he sees from the darkness will give him more power over this street than eleven years of patrols ever could - power over the people who smiled past him, who called him by his first name in the tone they reserved for service workers, who never once considered what it might cost them to be seen by someone they refused to see.The Stalker is the third book in The Blackout series - a relentless, multi-POV psychological thriller in which the same catastrophic night unfolds through four different sets of eyes. Told entirely from Arthur's perspective, this is the story of a man who has always been on the outside looking in - and what happens when he finally decides to act on everything he knows.For readers who love You, The Silent Patient, and The Kind Worth Killing - a razor-sharp portrait of a man the neighborhood should have paid far more attention to.Can be read standalone or as part of the full series. Ion Esimai is the author of The Sleeper's Mole. An intriguing thriller that sets the stage for a head-on collision between the superpowers of Russia, China, and the US. He lives with his wife and children in Northern New Jersey.

Evelyn has spent fourteen years perfecting the performance.The immaculate house. The flawless dinner parties. The devoted husband who sees exactly what she allows him to see. She is the most controlled woman on the cul-de-sac - and she intends to stay that way.So when a moment of cold calculation leads her to send one anonymous text from a burner phone, she tells herself it is harmless. A small detonation. Nothing she cannot manage.She is wrong.Within an hour, the street is a crime scene - and a stranger in a dark house at the end of the cul-de-sac has photographed all of it, traced every thread, and sent the evidence directly to her phone.The power grid is down. Her husband is twelve feet away. Her guests are finishing their wine. And the clock is running out.The Hostess is the fourth book in The Blackout series - a relentless, multi-POV psychological thriller in which the same catastrophic night is witnessed through four different sets of eyes. Told entirely from Evelyn's perspective, this is the story of a woman who started a fire and will do absolutely anything to ensure she is never the one who burns.For readers who love Behind Closed Doors, The Woman in the Window, and Big Little Lies - a razor-sharp portrait of a woman whose greatest weapon has always been the one thing no one suspects.Her smile. Ion Esimai is the author of The Sleeper's Mole. An intriguing thriller that sets the stage for a head-on collision between the superpowers of Russia, China, and the US. He lives with his wife and children in Northern New Jersey.

Anda Weiss knows that going on a reality show to find love is, well, desperate. But, after years of putting her love life second to her career, that's how low she's willing to stoop. Miraculously, the hot guy starring in Man Of Her Dreams is nice. Surprisingly normal. Altogether terrific. And, Chance DiMarco kisses so well she forgets cameras are taping every second. Until she spends a red-hot night with him, only to have all of America watch him kick her off the show. Seven months later, Anda decides that a mind-blowing one-night stand is the only way to move past her humiliation. But, the man she hits on at a Vegas resort is far from a stranger. Anda seizes her chance to get payback on Chance. At least, that's her plan... But, does she have it in her to use Chance for a few more nights of great sex and then turn the tables and dump him? Is that revenge worth undoing all her healing? Will Anda leave with the satisfaction of another steamy hook-up with Chance? Or, could her epic humiliation actually end up bringing her to the man of her dreams?