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EE Isherwood Books in Order

See EE Isherwood books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple starting points for his zombie and post-apocalyptic fiction.

Last updated: July 3, 2026

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Since the Sirens

by EE Isherwood

2015

When the outbreak begins, fifteen-year-old Liam Peters has to get his 104-year-old great-grandmother out of the city alive. Their desperate escape turns into a strange, tense, and surprisingly moving fight through the first days of the apocalypse.

Last Fight of the Valkyries

by EE Isherwood

2016

The race to save civilization starts to feel real as Liam and Victoria push deeper into the outbreak and closer to the people hunting a cure. Every step forward brings more danger, more factions, and less time.

Post Apocalyptic Mustangs

by EE Isherwood

2016

Perth Hopkins is ready to trade safer courier runs for faster, deadlier work on the open interstate. In a rebuilt prairie nation full of patrols and predators, speed can mean freedom, but one bad run can end everything.

Post Apocalyptic Ponies

by EE Isherwood

2016

Years after global war shattered civilization, Perth Hopkins runs courier routes between farming towns in a muscle car. She wants the dangerous interstate jobs, but first she has to prove she can survive the road.

Siren Songs

by EE Isherwood

2016

Liam has escaped the worst of the city with 104-year-old Grandma Marty, but the suburbs bring no real safety. Zombies, a strange research facility, and the first hint of a cure turn a simple homecoming into another fight.

Stop the Sirens

by EE Isherwood

2016

After bombs and chaos rip apart his neighborhood, Liam wakes in a muddy creek without Grandma Marty. She has been taken to a secret facility for elderly survivors, and getting her back may mean walking straight into the heart of the plague.

The Game Begins

by Taki Drake

2016

A group of indie authors build fantasy and science fiction stories from shared prompts, mystery-box characters, and stray scenes. The result is an anthology full of varied voices, strange worlds, and imaginative first moves.

Thru the Darkness

by Taki Drake

2016

Another multi-author collection, this one leans harder into danger, shadow, and survival. Expect fantasy and science fiction stories that keep moving once the safe path disappears.

Transformation

by Taki Drake

2016

This anthology turns a shared speculative challenge into a wide mix of stories about change, risk, and the unexpected. Part of the appeal is seeing how different writers spin one theme in very different directions.

Zombies Ever After

by EE Isherwood

2016

Three weeks after the sirens, Liam and Victoria start learning why their family was targeted from day one. As the roads grow deadlier and the undead keep closing in, every clue points back to Grandma Marty and the fight for a cure.

Zombies Vs Polar Bears

by EE Isherwood

2016

Liam learns more about his family's place in the global mystery and heads for Cairo, Illinois to save who he can. New kinds of zombies, political intrigue, and a safe haven under siege make this one bigger and meaner.

Dazzle Ships

by EE Isherwood

2017

The wasteland is the real enemy as Elle and her companions push through a broken landscape that offers little mercy. Survival means movement, tough choices, and deciding whether hope is worth the risk.

Sky Dancers

by EE Isherwood

2017

In a brutal future, even something as hopeful as sunshine may carry apocalyptic consequences. Elle has to navigate a harsh world where survival depends on reading the land, the people around her, and the price of discovery.

World of Zombies

by EE Isherwood

2017

Liza Saratov is used to wealth, bodyguards, and the belief that money can solve anything. When a zombie outbreak tears through Moscow, she has to become someone tougher, faster, and far more dangerous just to stay alive.

Zombie Escape

by EE Isherwood

2018

Liam and his girlfriend claw their way out of the river after twenty days of zombie chaos, only to find the horde still closing in. Reaching the cure means crossing farmland, cities, and a country full of death.

Begin Again

by EE Isherwood

2019

The survivors race toward Colorado, hoping the people who understand the catastrophe can still stop it. Buck and Garth must stay human, and stay alive, while desperate strangers and collapsing timelines close in.

Blue Apocalypse

by EE Isherwood

2019

A failed science experiment wrecks infrastructure across America, leaving trucker Buck far from home and his son Garth trapped in New York. As reality starts to bend, both have to survive long enough to find each other.

Broad America

by EE Isherwood

2019

Buck finally makes headway across a warped America, while Garth and a new ally try to stay alive on their own. The time waves worsen, the sky turns hostile, and every mile toward safety gets stranger.

Broken Arrow

by EE Isherwood

2019

Buck keeps rolling east while Garth fights through a world growing stranger by the hour. As time distortions deepen and Faith Sinclair suspects sabotage at the reactor, survival turns into a race against a hidden conspiracy.

Empty Cities

by EE Isherwood

2019

Ted protects Vice President Emily while searching for his niece, Tabby wanders abandoned cities with three teens, and Dwight may have seen the invasion begin. The empty landscape is haunting, but the terrorists are only getting started.

Minus America

by EE Isherwood

2019

A superweapon wipes out almost everyone on mainland America in minutes, leaving the country eerily empty. Ted MacInnis, Vice President Emily Williams, and a handful of survivors have to figure out what happened before the next attack lands.

Rebel Cause

by EE Isherwood

2019

Ted and Emily stay on the move, Tabby decides to fight for what's left of home, and Dwight looks for any way to slow the invasion. With no allies and almost no numbers, the first sparks of rebellion begin.

Adrift

by Mike Kraus

2020

With the country splintering after the impacts, the scattered survivors are forced onto new routes by fire, violence, and ruined infrastructure. Every decision carries more risk as they search for safety and the truth behind the disaster.

Black

by Mike Kraus

2020

As the government struggles to contain the fallout, the survivors discover the disaster is part of something even bigger. The pressure closes in from every side, and the people still standing may be the only ones who can expose the truth.

Bounce

by Mike Kraus

2020

America reels after the asteroid strike as storms, panic, and collapsing systems make survival harder by the day. Separated families, a hunted whistleblower, and ruthless profiteers all get pulled deeper into the chaos.

Crush

by Mike Kraus

2020

Martial law, violent opportunists, and buried secrets make the fallout even deadlier. As the truth about the asteroid's contents comes out, the survivors have to decide whether to hide, flee, or fight back.

Dig

by Mike Kraus

2020

The chase reaches its breaking point as Grace, Ezra, and their allies move toward a final showdown. To stop the people profiting from collapse, they have to survive one last run through a wrecked country.

Hostile Shores

by EE Isherwood

2020

Americans are driven out of every nation and forced toward the sea, while Ted and Emily crash into the heart of the enemy's plans. Tabby emerges into a strange new landscape as the final superweapon attack approaches.

Inbound

by Mike Kraus

2020

A mining mission goes catastrophically wrong when a valuable asteroid crashes into the United States. Ezra and his park-ranger daughter Grace survive separate disasters and uncover signs that the impact may not have been an accident.

Two Wolves and a Sheep

by EE Isherwood

2020

Ted and Emily join the leftovers of a growing rebellion as the invaders tighten their grip on America. Tabby is trapped inside enemy territory, and even two wandering dogs may uncover the secret that changes everything.

Beyond Alpha

by EE Isherwood

2021

Buck and Garth cross a shattered land where time swirls have rewritten the map. To protect their families and fight the people behind the catastrophe, they have to survive a strange new wilderness and find a way forward.

Bold Action

by EE Isherwood

2022

The survivors have carved out a fragile refuge, but a cruise ship appearing among flooded skyscrapers shows how broken the world has become. Buck, Garth, and Faith face one last struggle as powerful enemies try to escape back to the old world.

Where should I start?

If you want his zombie series first: Since the SirensSiren SongsStop the Sirens
If you want a big military survival story: Minus AmericaEmpty CitiesRebel CauseTwo Wolves and a Sheep
If you want weird science and time-bending chaos: Blue ApocalypseBroken ArrowBroad AmericaBegin Again
If you want a shorter, stranger detour: Sky DancersDazzle Ships
If you want post-apocalyptic road action: Post Apocalyptic PoniesPost Apocalyptic Mustangs

Author bio

EE Isherwood writes post-apocalyptic thrillers with a practical streak. His books ask what ordinary people do when the systems around them fail, then push that question through zombies, vanished nations, broken timelines, asteroid strikes, and other large-scale disasters. He is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling indie author, and he has built a big catalog by keeping the stories fast, readable, and rooted in people who feel like they could live down the street.

He did not come to fiction by the most direct route.

Before writing full time, Isherwood earned a master's degree in geography and worked in several very different jobs, including satellite image analysis, about two decades in IT, and years in military history magazine publishing. He has joked that even two summers at the post office taught him something useful, mostly about bureaucracy and inefficiency. All of that shows up in his fiction. His disasters are dramatic, but the fallout often feels grounded in how real systems break.

Storytelling had been around much longer than the byline. As a kid he made comic strips, and as a teenager he built Dungeons and Dragons campaigns for friends. He has said he was already inventing worlds in the mid-1980s. The shift to novels came later, when he wrote his first book in 2014 during National Novel Writing Month. That project grew out of a short story inspired by his 104-year-old grandmother, and the idea eventually became Since the Sirens, the opening novel in his zombie series.

That start says a lot about what readers tend to like in his work. Since the Sirens takes a familiar end-of-the-world setup and gives it an unusual center, a teenage boy and his very elderly great-grandmother trying to survive together. Minus America begins with an even bigger hook, a weapon that wipes almost everyone off mainland America in minutes, then follows the small pockets of people left to make sense of the empty country around them. In both cases, the spectacle matters, but the human problem comes first.

He also likes to bend the genre without losing the momentum. In Blue Apocalypse, the first End Days book cowritten with Craig Martelle, a failed experiment wrecks infrastructure and unravels time itself, leaving a father and son stranded in different parts of a country that no longer behaves normally. In Inbound, written with Mike Kraus, an asteroid disaster becomes both a survival story and a conspiracy story. Readers who come to Isherwood for action usually stay for that combination of big premise, family stakes, and constant forward motion.

He likes motion.

That may connect to geography, and to the fact that he has traveled to 45 states. His books are full of roads, shifting maps, cross-country escapes, and people trying to read unfamiliar ground quickly. Even when society has collapsed, place still matters in an Isherwood novel. Cities empty out differently than suburbs. Highways create one kind of danger, small towns another. He writes like someone who notices how landscapes shape decisions.

He has also been clear that he prefers a lighter touch than many apocalypse writers. His stories can get tense, but he does not lean hard into cruelty for its own sake. He has said he wants to entertain readers, not drag them into hopelessness. That is why his books often feature decent people, bits of humor, a little romance, and communities that hold together longer than you might expect. Self-reliance matters in his fiction, but so does cooperation.

These days he lives near St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife and kids, and he has mentioned family hikes, mountain biking, model tanks, World War II reading, and early-1980s new wave music among the things he enjoys away from the keyboard. He has spent more than a decade building his writing career, and he still seems to enjoy the simple pleasure of asking one more terrible question about civilization, then seeing who survives the answer.

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