Redemption Trilogy

A spin-off from the Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. In the early hours of April 19, 2015, a virus begins sweeping through America's cities, pitting the worst humanity has to offer against its best warriors and scientists in a race against extinction. The virus doesn't just kill; it transforms and creates monsters of men and women. New York firefighter Meg Pratt is among the survivors. Together with her fellow rescue workers and the scattered elements of America's front line military fighters, Meg will have to survive the first day of the Hemorrhage Virus. She hopes to save at least one other soul from the coming apocalypse, but day will turn to night, and the monsters are winning. Across the city, would-be US marine Jed Welch is on his own path to survival, and it is taking him straight to Meg's station. When the world is ending, and monsters are crawling out of every shadow, where do you look for help? If Meg and Jed are lucky, they'll see the help they need emerge from within, just as everything around them is coming to an end.

A spin-off from the Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. After the harrowing trials of Emergence, Jed Welch finds himself alone in the ruins of New York City. Having abandoned Meg Pratt, the firefighter who saved his life, and believing her dead, Jed is left with nothing and no one but the Variant hordes to keep him company. Or is he alone...?Jed will team up with USMC Staff Sergeant Alexandra Gallegos and the two surviving members of her platoon, PFC Reeve and Private Mahton. Together, they will bring the full weight of their Marine Corps training, and mission-driven sense of vengeance, to bear upon the real monsters: human collaborators who aid the Variants at the expense of their fellow human beings. For Gallegos, theirs is a mission borne of duty and command. For Jed, it becomes an act of penance, in hopes he may atone for leaving Meg behind.

Some threats hide in plain sight... Two years have passed since Jed Welch escaped the ruins of New York City. The monsters have begun vanishing from parts of the world, and rebuilding efforts are underway. Isolated communities and their militias are starting over, slowly reclaiming cities and countryside alike. Now a sergeant, Jed leads a squad providing security on Galveston Island, as they await the arrival of the first refugee ships. When a saboteur's bomb threatens everything, Jed and his people find themselves cut off from support and communication. With nothing but the gear they carry to help them survive, the squad hunts the saboteur across the southern Texas landscape, and discovers the truth behind the Variants' disappearance.

Jed Welch thought washing out of the Marines Corps was the worst thing that could happen. It landed him back in his old life of crime, running with drug dealers in Queens. Just when he thought his luck couldn't get worse, a global viral outbreak unleashed virulent hordes of Alpha predators. He quickly finds himself alone, saving his own skin, and on the run in New York City as the outbreak spreads. In a twist of fate, Jed discovers the remnants of a devastated Marine platoon, and decides to join them in the fight for survival. With these new allies, Jed has more than a new safe haven. He finds a renewed sense of mission and the conviction to serve again. Together, he and the other Marines will take the fight to the enemy, striking them where it matters most. As the battles rage across the earth and humanity slowly gains a foothold, Jed grows into a leader, bringing his squad into the front lines against a new and more dangerous threat than any they have yet faced.