David Nix Books in Order

A homeless teenager known as Cowboy senses Death repeatedly trying to claim him. After rescuing a wealthy girl, he searches for his forgotten origins while a street gang and a mysterious protector complicate his struggle to survive.

Searching for Thomas and research that might counter a devastating plague, Sky faces a technologically powerful faction determined to eradicate infected humanity. Her journey toward the Saints becomes a race to warn them while surviving hostile terrain and uncertain alliances.

Seventeen-year-old Sky joins a scavenging expedition from her isolated island community to a monster-infested shore. When the journey collapses into disaster, unexpected help challenges the history she was taught and raises disturbing questions about the survival of humanity.

Singer’s attempt to open his underground community’s forbidden exit leads to banishment into its lowest level. There he discovers troubling truths and joins an unconventional young woman in a desperate plan to climb toward the surface.

In a world inherited by Neanderthals, Crissa’s human appearance makes her a captive circus attraction. Sold for ritual sacrifice, she glimpses a young man who looks like her and begins a dangerous search for freedom and belonging.

After escaping their underground home, Singer and his companions discover an unexpectedly hostile world and fall into captivity. Keeping them alive requires finding another route toward the surface, even if it means returning to the Well.

Jenn and Micah flee tribal pursuers after a forbidden encounter condemns them both. Their meeting with Singer’s group draws them into a search across a ruined Earth for answers about civilization’s collapse and the threatening Darkness.

Facing execution for killing his commanding officer after refusing a brutal order, Jake Paynter travels toward trial with a wagon train. An attack offers escape, but growing friendships draw him into protecting the travelers and confronting the past he hoped to avoid.

With a bounty drawing pursuers from across the West, Jake Paynter hopes to disappear. Reports of mysterious killings among miners instead bring him to South Pass City, where protecting friends means investigating by night while enemies move closer.

As marshal of South Pass City, Jake Paynter confronts an outlaw gang and a wealthy adversary who may be helping it. When captives are taken into the Wyoming wilderness, he must pursue the criminals with dwindling allies and little room for error.