Jacqueline Druga Books in Order

Joe Slagel's four mischievous sons have driven away another stepmother, leaving their father desperate for help. Sergeant Ethel Pletcher enters the household with firm discipline and a big heart, determined to bring order to the family's chaos.

Writer Emily Stevenson has built her fictional heroes around an ideal man named Bob. When she meets someone who matches him perfectly, romance seems possible, except Bob is a ghost visible only to Emily and her young daughter.

This guide gathers information about nuclear, biological and chemical threats, alongside basic approaches to survival. It examines frightening disaster scenarios and the preparations readers can consider when thinking about how ordinary life might be disrupted.

Hal Slagel helps a clever friend build an electronic insect that temporarily transforms bullies into nerds. Their revenge scheme works until the Nerdfly escapes their control and begins stinging teachers, police officers and other people around town.

A deadly airborne virus released in a New York subway spreads beyond control. In Connecticut, Joe Slagel leads people struggling to protect their loved ones, while the surviving strangers begin forming bonds that may outlast the catastrophe.

An attack on the United States triggers World War III, leaving Joanna Collins sheltered from a devastated world. Writing in a notebook helps her confront her past and gather the courage to search for the people she loves.

Returning home during a war on American soil, a woman discovers her husband and mother are dead and her children missing. With communications and resources scarce, she searches the shattered country for any sign of her family.

Dr. Marcus Leon uses blood from the Shroud of Turin to clone Jesus, and crowds embrace his creation. But the experiment produces a body without the expected soul, opening the way for a force that threatens humanity.

This poetry collection turns to humor as a response to changing moods. Druga gathers verse inspired by those emotional shifts, offering readers a brief departure from her novels through a collection centered on mood and comic expression.

Ten-year-old Debbie Lou O'Reilly records her fifth-grade year in a diary filled with unusual suspicions. In her version of the 1970s, her mother might be a spy and her teacher a Martian, turning everyday life into comic adventure.

With his cloning experiment threatening humanity, Dr. Marcus Leon must face the consequences of his creation. Guided by Michael the Archangel, he sets out to assemble an army for a battle whose failure would mean eternal damnation.

A synthetic attempt to control bird flu creates a devastating pandemic, and its cure turns patients into violent monsters. Immune survivor Lisa Marshall emerges from protective isolation into Cleveland, where escaping the mutated inhabitants becomes her daily struggle.

A deadly new form of influenza spreads through a world unprepared to contain it. The untouched town of Lodi, Ohio, becomes a refuge, but protecting its residents forces difficult choices about compassion, exclusion and survival.

Julian Harrison and David Colter marry to preserve an inheritance, then discover that they've loved each other across many lives. Disturbing dreams reveal a recurring violent death, and they must break the pattern before history repeats.

A biological attack leaves the United States quarantined by the rest of the world. Through journal entries, survivors record the struggle to live inside an abandoned country as a deadly virus destroys the institutions they once trusted.

Most of humanity dies within hours, leaving scattered survivors to follow a radio signal across America. Expecting to join a defense against invasion, they discover a greater threat behind the devastation and must reconsider what survival requires.

Samantha Evans searches for the son taken by Damien Rhyes, a vampire who feeds on fear and souls. With anyone helping her in danger, she must find a different kind of vampire before surrender becomes her only option.

After years searching for his family, Robbie Slagel reaches the protected settlement of Beginnings, only to be expelled. In a world ravaged by plague, his rejection drives him to gather outcasts and threaten the community's security.

Hollywood starlet Grace and her designer friend Freddy witness a murder and enter witness protection. Forced into an Ohio mobile home and bargain-store jobs, the pampered pair must adjust to ordinary life and an unfamiliar circle of friends.

Hal Slagel's family is touring a West Virginia bunker when nuclear war begins. Suddenly responsible for the people inside, he must organize survival underground as lingering radiation delays their return to the world far longer than expected.

A virus believed contained in Peru reaches America through infected military personnel and other victims. As the dead begin rising, officials and survivors face the consequences of bringing a deadly contagion home before understanding its danger.

The infection spreads beyond containment, and growing numbers of undead bring a ground war to America. As civil unrest follows the outbreak, the struggle for survival becomes a fight against hostile people as well as the reanimated dead.

Four lottery winners join a NASA mission, only to return from space to an Earth transformed by catastrophe. Following a signal across a barren America, they search for their families and answers about the world they've lost.

Six-year-old Libby Harris opens a buried box containing the heart of Sarafina, a witch executed centuries earlier. Released from confinement, Sarafina uses the child’s body to renew her campaign against an unsuspecting modern world vulnerable to her dark powers.

Eight volunteers enter an isolated complex for a mental endurance experiment. Instead, they become entertainment for wealthy observers, facing months of physical and psychological ordeals in a rigged game designed to leave just one participant alive.

A meteor lands near a Peruvian village, exposing curious residents to a deadly virus. International health officials discover that the infection continues after death, reanimating its victims and threatening to escape the community where it began.

Ten short stories examine death through fear, love, grief, dementia, and moments of unexpected humor. Moving between unsettling and tender situations, the collection explores how mortality affects the living and reshapes the emotions surrounding loss and remembrance.

After a twenty-year war leaves America in ruins, veteran Falcon loses his wife and must raise two young children alone. He takes them across the wasteland in search of something from his childhood, discovering unexpected lessons himself.

After a heart attack on New Year’s Eve, Danny D’Argenio encounters his deceased father between life and death. Revisiting the consequences of choices he once wished to change gives him another chance to understand his life and their relationship.

An earthquake destroys New York City, and scattered strangers recognize it as the beginning of a predicted apocalypse. A firefighter, priest and others join forces to save humanity, uncertain whether they can still stop the events unfolding.

Bill and Jane meet through an online dating site just as a zombie outbreak throws their lives into chaos. This illustrated story for adults follows their attempt to find safety despite knowing little about surviving the hungry monsters around them.

Mysterious storms disable communications and make people disappear, reducing humanity to isolated pockets. Grant and Rita Mason's longtime hometown remains one of the surviving communities, where ordinary residents must face a threat no government can explain or contain.

Poet Felix Cramer wakes in a coffee-shop parking lot to discover his identity and former life have vanished. Determined to prove who he is, he enters a comic mystery that forces him to question whether his memories are real.

After Texas secedes, a former president becomes king and a surveillance system monitors its citizens. Journalist Thomas Stein interviews those who stayed and those who fled, exposing the consequences of rigid conservative laws through a fictional account of the new nation.

CDC investigator Edward Neil enters Hartworth, Montana, and finds a town wiped out by a fast-moving disease. He must identify the unknown germ and determine whether it escaped the quarantine before the disaster spreads to the wider world.

Jacqueline Druga collects her research on surviving disasters, from nuclear war and biological weapons to zombies and religious apocalypse scenarios. The book combines explanations of threats with survival basics for readers imagining what happens after familiar systems fail.

After a train wreck, elderly veteran Harry Hayward discovers New York under attack. Left to guide an eight-year-old boy through occupied territory, he must find safety while a wider invasion turns the Eastern Seaboard into a battlefield.

Her son's murder leaves Jordan Wyatt terrified for her daughter's safety and withdrawn from life. Meeting Victor, an artist whose drawings reveal the dead, offers a possible connection to her lost child and a difficult path through grief.

With undead forces overwhelming America, Sergeant Jack Edwards is torn between finding his wife and serving his country. He searches for a decisive weapon while another man works on an antidote, and the world considers America's growing danger.

New director Greg Haynes pushes an island isolation experiment beyond its limits, treating suffering participants as entertainment. When his scientific challenges escape control, contestants and investors must work together against a threat that could reach far beyond the island.

Beginnings residents discover fifty scientists held in cryogenic stasis beneath their community. Reviving them exposes secrets about the plague and an unexpected agenda, threatening the stability the survivors have built behind their protective walls.

Beginnings struggles to recover from its conflict with the scientists when Joe discovers a traitor inside the community. As grief and suspicion grow, an enemy's plans threaten to undo the settlement and bring another devastating loss.

Plague survivors build the underground settlement of So-Cal and prepare to resist alien invaders. The arrival of a long-lost spacecraft offers hope, but an attack leaves its crew injured and forces them to confront Earth's changed circumstances.

In this fictional outbreak, a mutated disease affecting children spreads into a global pandemic. As young victims become dangerously violent and adults face deadly exposure, parents and governments confront painful choices with no effective treatment available.

DNA evidence frees Pam after eighteen years confined for murdering her family. Certain another woman committed the crime, she seeks justice with help from a psychiatrist whose personal problems threaten the investigation and the trust she places in him.

After her husband leaves, Hennie McIntyre returns to Lodi, Ohio, hoping to rebuild her life. Financial pressure, an overbearing father, a pregnant teenage daughter, and disastrous dates complicate her efforts to regain confidence and trust in others.

Frank's attempts to change the past and bring back his brother Robbie create altered versions of the plague years. These restored stories revisit the consequences of his time travel, showing how Robbie's presence changes the course of events.

After children vanish and disasters throw the world into chaos, Mera Stevens crosses a dying country to find her daughter. Fellow travelers join her, but infected people and failing communications make their search for loved ones increasingly dangerous.

Beginnings hopes a time machine can provide the knowledge needed to stop the Society's biological weapon. After Frank's earlier mistakes, the community must act carefully as a new plague approaches and obstacles threaten its chance of survival.

With undead numbers rising across America, Jack Edwards searches for his wife while helping scientist Saul Klein escape Cleveland. Both may hold the means to preserve humanity, but they must put a plan into action before time runs out.

This illustrated companion presents the fictional community of Beginnings through an entrance packet for new residents. Maps, photographs, registration documents, and accounts of housing and industry expand the setting of the plague-to-dystopia series.

Grieving after a devastating flu pandemic, Mick Owens takes his surviving sons away from Lodi for a short break. When they become separated, his search leads through a lawless world where another threat could endanger the remaining population.

Millions disappear, and a deadly plague brings its victims back as undead. Aspiring musician Del Lincoln joins six other survivors on a search for safety, but protecting one member of their group may be essential to humanity's future.

Three stories place Christmas celebrations against the threat of apocalypse. A father seeks a holiday for his family among zombies, a mother battles a catastrophic climate shift, and a priest confronts his faith as a rogue planet approaches Earth.

A working time machine offers Beginnings a way to gather information before the plague and defeat the Caceres Society. Sending Frank into the past creates complications when his personal plans interfere with the mission to save the community.

Abby shelters with strangers in the Liberty Tunnels after a catastrophe, despite having little survival knowledge. As hunger, sickness, and panic make the refuge dangerous, she must get herself and the girls out and find a way home.

With conflict against the Society approaching, the Slagels prepare a spy mission while illness troubles the family. Dean and Frank investigate what is affecting Dean's mind, and Johnny seeks help beyond what Lodi can provide.

Beginnings faces war with the Society and the threat of a devastating biological attack. Blind doctor Dean Hayes struggles to counter the virus while an insider undermines his work, leaving the community vulnerable from both within and outside its walls.

Ava Mason and her children are confined to a hotel after exposure to a contagious virus. As the outbreak destroys order outside, the quarantine becomes a refuge, but protecting her family from infection remains an increasingly desperate struggle.

Frank takes Ellen away from Beginnings to cope with their son's loss, but Society forces pursue them outside the walls. Meanwhile, the United Western Alliance offers a military partnership that could change the community's fight for freedom.

Hal Slagel returns to his family after seven years, bringing the strength of his Horse Soldiers to Beginnings. Before the coming war, Frank and Robbie recount the community's early years, revisiting the experiences that shaped its people.

Eight-year-old Saul’s best friend moves away, leaving him unhappy about the girl taking his place. With a living garden gnome already part of his world, discovering a terrible secret sends him on a quest into the realm of Asrene.

A betrayal by one of their own leaves the Slagel family shaken and wounded as Ellen's expulsion approaches. Dean faces a critical medical challenge, while the growing community of Beginnings remains under pressure from the Society.

A devastating explosion leaves Beginnings grieving while an insider pursues revenge over a murder. Hal Slagel believes he knows who has been harming the community, but exposing the suspect means challenging his own family and loyalties.

Beginnings and the United Western Alliance prepare to confront the Caceres Society, which is attacking key residents from within. As their rivalry deepens, a stronger third force emerges, threatening to make cooperation between enemies necessary for survival.

With a comet approaching Earth, Anna Jenner must bring selected experts and her son to a survival bunker. Her refusal to abandon strangers disrupts the carefully planned mission, forcing difficult decisions about resources and humanity's future.

Robbie and Ellen disappear after a mysterious group kidnaps them, sending Frank and Joe searching for clues. Inside Beginnings, Johnny's claims of lost memory and a campaign of pranks against Dean add turmoil while the rescue takes shape.

Despite a truce between East and West, organized attackers threaten Beginnings with repeated assaults. An insider also sabotages life within the walls, forcing the community to confront external violence and hidden betrayal at the same time.

Alex Sans takes charge after the survivors' search for New Jerusalem ends unexpectedly. Discovering that the supposed refuge hides troubling truths, he and his companions seek salvation as the infected Sleepers gather and enter a more dangerous phase.

Alex Sans leads survivors rebuilding their lives within the sanctuary of Grace. Their fragile return to normality is threatened as Sleepers gather near the gates, forcing the community to confront an enemy that could inherit the world.

Forced from Grace, the survivors seek shelter in a former juvenile correctional facility in Ohio. Grief and new losses burden them as increasingly organized Sleepers mass outside, while an unsuspected danger already lurks within their refuge.

Jake and Cal hope to resume ordinary life after an endurance experiment, but the Caldwell Institute invokes their contract to force more trials. Facing threats under Paragraph 15, they must endure challenges that test both their bodies and family roles.

Beginnings investigates a murder while the real Society insider remains at large after another resident's downfall. As the suspect grows desperate, Dean and Ellen discover the Aragon Window, introducing a development that changes the community's situation.

Herbert, a tiny Button Master smaller than a bug, lives with his family in a hidden village. When he becomes lost in the enormous world of children, his small size turns an unfamiliar place into an adventure.

Expelled from Beginnings, Ellen must survive outside its protective walls while the Society hunts her in revenge for a death. A fixed time limit and restricted help from the Slagel men turn her exile into a deadly pursuit.

Frank's disappearance leaves Beginnings grieving, but amnesia has turned him into a Society soldier. The community plans a rescue with help from the Horse Soldiers, while hidden Society agents threaten the effort and the safety of those at home.

Robbie's team discovers a virus intended to destroy Beginnings and becomes infected itself. Dean races to develop a cure while losing his sight, but an insider working for the enemy repeatedly undermines the community's struggle to survive.

Faye Wills wakes from a coma among bodies in a stadium used as a mass grave. Escaping into an empty, epidemic-stricken world, she searches for answers and survivors while fearing she may be the only person left alive.

Professor and musician Darius Cobb is quarantined after an attack by cockroaches. As he and other detainees connect the strange events to an approaching global catastrophe, they use his knowledge to plan for survival against the threat of extinction.

During a zombie outbreak, curious Ben catches Fred, who insists he is friendly. This rhyming story follows a boy and his undead companion as they consider whether a zombie can be trusted and what friendship really means.

New enemies emerge as the people of Beginnings turn their attention toward the past. The community faces a change that threatens to reshape its future, bringing another turning point in its long struggle to survive.

A virus weakens humanity, allowing ancient beings to emerge from hiding and regain control of Earth. Humans survive as slaves or hide within a growing resistance, which must find exceptional warriors to reclaim the world from its rulers.

Dean's determination to correct a failed experiment makes Beginnings question his behavior and implanted microchip. Unusual crimes unsettle the town, while the arrival of Jimmy, the fourth Slagel brother, adds another challenge to the family's uneasy relationships.

A blinding event disables power and communications while Tess Lordes travels with her children. Back in Falcon's Way, violence and further disasters force her to decide whether staying in their hometown is still the safest way to protect them.

After tragedy strikes Beginnings, Frank assumes the presidency and seeks his father's murderer while preparing for war. Robbie struggles to accept what happened, leaving the brothers to face loss as they try to restore order to their community.

Macy Anderson sees people collapse and die from sudden coughing fits as her town is quarantined. Protecting her young sons becomes a race against a spreading virus, while researchers and authorities struggle to keep society from falling apart.

After surviving a comet impact in Protocol One's bunker, Anna Jenner ventures into a frozen landscape to find other survivors. The outside world brings unexpected discoveries, but troubling revelations about their own sanctuary may be even more significant.

Shifting alliances leave Beginnings uncertain about who its enemies really are. As the reasons behind Dean’s outbursts emerge, new arrivals and Frank’s escalating antics push the community toward another unpredictable turn in its troubled history.

Frank Slagel writes his own version of a zombie apocalypse, placing himself alone in a city overrun by infected attackers. His rambling account alternates with Dean Hayes's steadier perspective, turning survival into a story within the Beginnings world.

A fast-spreading virus turns people into violent attackers, leaving the immune responsible for protecting everyone still vulnerable. Archaeologist Grace Howard joins a mixed group of survivors who must choose between fighting the infection and hiding until it passes.

Victoria Donner believes a spirit guides her mysterious drawings, until her art transports her to 1943. Meeting the living man behind that presence brings unexpected complications, and finding a way home requires solving a puzzle she barely understands.

Nora Lane and Jason Rudolph wake in a bunker with little memory of how they arrived. Intended to sleep through a deliberate population-reducing plague, they face a countdown and an outside world their failed preservation plan never prepared them for.

Vala discovers that she is a Mare, a rare warrior with powers beyond those of ordinary humans. Entering the Ancient City, she seeks a way to defeat the Sybarians who have returned to enslave humanity.

After children vanish and a plague turns survivors into murderous beings, the Sleepers begin organizing into a more dangerous force. Those sheltering behind a fence must also confront an enemy within, making trust as urgent as defense.

The residents of Haven decide to stop running from the Sleepers and prepare a major offensive. With the world transformed by vanished children, disasters and infection, they face uncertainty about the enemy their final battle will actually bring.

Fourteen-year-old Violet writes letters to her grandmother as a meteor threatens to end life on Earth. Her jokes gradually give way to fear when the government's survival plan reveals that only some people will be chosen.

Vala's powers help humanity resist the returning Sybarians, but a new enemy threatens the rebellion. Stronger than either humans or their ancient oppressors, this force challenges everyone fighting to reclaim a world already devastated by conquest.

Danny Hoi imagines an alternate future for Beginnings in which time travel has been banned. His account reaches beyond the community's walls, raising questions about whether this invented history might reveal dangers its people will eventually face.

Marcus Leon's successful cloning experiment has become a disaster as Devante gains power and brings destruction to Earth. Marcus must survive both the clone's forces and natural catastrophes while gathering the people needed to oppose his creation.