Nemesis (Tantor Media)

She's arrived . . . Light years from Earth, an alien planet forced their queen from power, and cast her into space. For millions of years, the queen's ship wandered the cosmos . . . Until it crashed on Earth. And no one can stop her . . . As a child, Michael Hems first lost his mother to cancer, and then his father to the bottom of a bottle. Growing up in a small town, Michael's friends became his life. The only one he knew. The only one he wanted. But the night he found the ship, everything he loved was thrown into jeopardy . . . Now, this alien sees her salvation in Earth. Becoming a queen once more, her species can reign over this planet. And those already here, these humans? They can bow or die. Facing not only his own death, but his friends' too, Michael must first escape the alien's grasp, then somehow warn the world about what's already here: the war for Earth's supremacy. Our final Nemesis has arrived.

She's here, and now she wants to stay . . . The alien crashed into Earth without anyone knowing. She escaped her ship without being caught. Escape isn't enough, though. Morena wants to conquer Earth. It's the only chance for the survival of her entire species. Now, Morena is taking over a small town in Georgia, possessing those she comes in contact with and readying the birth of her alien kind. The U.S. government is finally mobilizing to the small town. It's unwilling to use the National Guard and risk a panic; it instead chooses mercenaries, paid to stay undercover and descend on Georgia with a singular purpose: kill the alien and anyone it's possessed. No matter what. As Morena moves closer to her species' birth, and the mercenaries clamp down on the town, the only question that matters is: will anyone survive?

BETTER TO FIGHT FOR SOMETHING, THAN LIVE FOR NOTHING Lexi has survived much since a super-EMP ended the world she knew. She emerged from the ashes a determined foe of those who prey upon the weak, but now she's the one needing a protector. Nine months pregnant and alone, she is a wanderer in desperate need of a home to raise and eventually train her child for the world they are being born into. Her one main obstacle is that she's created many enemies who wish to see her dead and will do anything to seek their revenge upon her. Can she find sanctuary before they catch up to her? And if so, will it be enough to protect the one innocent that means the world to her?

The alien is changing the world, and she's not nearly finished. Falling from the sky, a creature arrived more powerful than anything imagined on Earth: Morena, an alien Queen banished from her home world. Now, she's ready to start again, repopulating the world with her species. The government's first defense failed to stop the alien. Turning to one of the smartest men to ever live, they ask Kenneth Marks to save the world. Except as Marks assesses the situation, he understands he can gain more by helping the alien . . . even if it means damning humanity. Bryan, Michael, and Julie remain caught in the midst of this war, unable to escape and unable to stop it. Morena's time has nearly arrived and Earth will never be the same . . .

Morena's power grows in the small town of Grayson, Georgia. The man tasked with destroying her lies underneath her control, and a madman now controls the armies attacking her. And yet, bent on Earth's domination, Morena fails to notice the teenagers moving around inside her town. She doesn't see the powers-powers even greater than her-making plans. As she pushes forward, the world-and even the universe-changes beneath her feet, with forces she can't imagine now heading for Earth.

Alien forces rising across the country . . . In a desperate attempt to throw off the United States military, Morena's alien forces struck back ferociously. Now, the United States government hides beneath the ground, trying to fight a war they barely understand. The United States east coast destroyed . . . Kenneth Marks plots a dark and treacherous path, with the end resulting only in consolidating power in his hands. Will and Knox desperately oppose him, and his unstoppable greed, but with aliens devastating cities, they sink deeper into the fog of war. Morena's goal nearly attained . . . In the fifth book of this series, the world is ablaze, with both heroes and villains fighting violently to hold onto what they love most: life. Who will win?

All things come to an end . . . The world is at war. Morena and her alien species ravage the United States, destroying metropolis after metropolis. Yet, even as this happens, a manmade disease kills off Morena's children, rapidly mutilating her dreams of a new planet for her people. Morena's war started in Grayson. Now it ends there as well. Will chases one last chance to make amends by killing Morena. Kenneth Marks wants to ascend, to become one with the alien species. The teenagers who still live only want to remain alive. The war ends in this bone-chilling final chapter of the bestselling science fiction series, Nemesis. Who will win?