L.C. Mortimer Books in Order

A mysterious plague turns Paige's college town into chaos, forcing her to flee with little more than a backpack. As death surrounds her, she must navigate an unfamiliar and dangerous world without knowing where safety might still exist.

Eight years after a zombie outbreak, Nicole is tired of hiding from life and takes a job in Breakside, a town known for its hunters. Her fresh start soon reveals dangers beneath the security she thought she had found.

These stories follow people confronting loss, isolation and impossible choices in worlds unsettled by catastrophe. From a missing loved one during a zombie outbreak to a friendship with the infected, the collection examines where hope and personal worth survive.

In a city dominated by cyborgs, Gertrude resents the machines watching her every move. Working with Jack complicates her distrust, and approaching conflict between robots and their opponents forces her to choose between flight and loyalty.

Dane lives comfortably with a ghost fond of snacks and loud music until he brings home a mysterious auction purchase. When the ghost itself begins complaining of being haunted, Dane must investigate the trouble caused by the strange music box.

Bereaved fallen angel Serenity finds solace in teaching art, where she meets Wrath, a demon exiled to Earth for his anger. Their growing connection offers hope until a threat to her existence forces him to confront his destructive nature.

After vampires abduct Max’s grandmother, an aunt reveals the hidden supernatural world and sends Max to Hybrid Academy. Among witches, warlocks and shifters, the newcomer must navigate extraordinary abilities alongside the familiar pressures of fitting into school.

At a school filled with supernatural students, Max is still learning what it means to be both a witch and a wolf-shifter. Newly discovered powers bring responsibilities that must be faced before everything important is lost.

Back at Hybrid Academy, Max becomes suspicious of a secretive new roommate with unusual potions and books. As trouble grows around the school, the young wolf-shifter and aspiring witch sets out to discover whether that suspicion is justified.

When a devastating disease raises the dead, a group of neighbors must learn to survive together. Paralegal Alice, veteran Mark, and IT worker Kyle bring different skills and private burdens to a struggle that tests more than their fighting ability.

After failing to save her sister from the undead, Emily returns to her isolated home and finds strangers living there. Their dispute over shelter becomes more urgent as an approaching storm brings a threat beyond the zombies surrounding them.

Jessica wins a scholarship to a boarding school where fairy tales and supernatural abilities are ordinary. Hoping to avoid trouble as its unmagical outsider, she is drawn into a mystery when Belle disappears and the school erupts into chaos.

Small, shy Tinkerbell guards a secret much larger than anyone suspects. When an unexpected enemy traps Peter Pan, saving him requires her to step beyond her fears and decide whether she can reveal what she has kept hidden.

Known as a bully, Hook has spent her school years on the edge of acceptance. When an enemy threatens Enchanted Academy, she must choose between the familiar role that protects her and using her powers to defend others.

At Enchanted Academy, Jessica watches her roommate Wolf fall for a boy who seems unaware she exists. Amid the school’s unpredictable dangers and teenage complications, Wolf must find the courage to act on her feelings for Red.

Returning to settle her estranged mother's estate, a woman discovers unsettling secrets in a remote town. Strange events around the cottage make her question the supposedly accidental death, especially as she begins to fear the killer is watching her.

A blood test reveals that Sasha is not human, sending her from Earth to an academy for the universe's elite. Surrounded by gifted alien students, she must discover her own abilities and uncover why she was abandoned on another planet.

After a difficult childhood in foster care, a teenager unexpectedly begins transforming into a cat. Learning control means attending the hidden Shifter Falls Academy, but entering that unfamiliar world offers little reassurance when hostile forces are already hunting shifters.

Plans for a final year at Shifter Falls Academy collapse when an enemy targets the headmaster’s rare magical blood. After he is abducted, a student with uncertain abilities must attempt the rescue despite feeling unprepared for the task.

A year into Shifter Falls Academy, a student notices disturbing behavior from the instructor teaching transformation. His secrecy, constant vigilance and insistence on effortless shifting suggest a hidden purpose, prompting an investigation into what he is concealing upstairs.

Tiffany survives a world overrun by the undead by staying hidden among its ruined cities. Finding a lost child and a desperate message forces her to choose between protecting that fragile safety and fighting to help someone else.

After a vampire child bites a young person's brother, their parents turn against them and force a desperate escape. A secret route into City 87 may offer refuge for the two humans and vampire, if they can reach it alive.

Ten years after civilization collapsed, Velvet survives alone with a stray cat, avoiding attachment and never staying anywhere long. Encountering a group of survivors fighting in the streets challenges her isolation and her assumptions about what remains of the world.

Escaping a burning cruise ship brings Winter and her companions to an island, but the zombies have followed them ashore. Their brief hope of refuge collapses as they search for another route away from an infection that refuses to stop.

When an alien crashes behind a bar, its owner becomes entangled in her urgent mission despite the common warning to distrust extraterrestrials. Helping the stranded visitor may be her only chance of survival, forcing an unexpected decision about trust.

Which Village remains troubled even after the death of the witch who cursed its moon. A mysterious arrival and strange events deepen the puzzle, while a woman with magical powers tries to decipher the secrets her mother left behind.

Told that robots cannot think or feel, a young artificial being knows she experiences emotions that set her apart. When Zero Five faces danger, she must act on the humanity others deny her to try to save him.

Princess Elisa discovers an enchanted sword whose call also awakens a dragon determined to reclaim it. To save her kingdom from destruction, she must unravel the weapon's connection to a witch, a knight, and a curse from decades earlier.

Escaping nearly a year in an alien zoo, Veronica learns that an enemy prince plans to destroy her home world. She must cross a chaotic galaxy and warn her queen before the invasion brings an end to Planet 86.

Clumsy, sociable rogue Violet unexpectedly crosses paths with Hawk, a hunter carrying out the king’s orders. Their meeting draws them into a shared quest to uncover what has gone wrong with the witches and protect Uyladena.

A zombie outbreak erupts midway through Winter Hawk's cruise, turning fellow passengers into the undead. With scant supplies and a handful of unexpected companions, she must find a way off the ship before the infection claims them too.

More than a month into the outbreak, Winter's group enters a city filled with the undead after failing to bypass it. Searching for food and other survivors, they struggle to help Greta reach her family without becoming victims themselves.

A broken-down truck strands Winter, Isaiah, Greta, and Luke in a small town after dark. With zombies surrounding their refuge, they must decide whether the strangers sheltering at an elementary school offer help or another threat to their survival.

A witch is reunited with her lost husband Stanley, but he has no memory of their marriage. As an enemy from his werewolf past threatens their new life in Which Village, the couple faces another painful choice.

Winter and her companions continue their journey through the zombie apocalypse, only to face another breakdown and an injured member. Their shrinking options force them to consider whether confronting a mob of the undead offers their best chance to survive.

A decade after zombies destroyed his old life, Winchester tries to begin drawing again. Making art amid continuing danger feels nearly impossible, and recovering that part of himself requires finding hope in a world still dominated by the dead.

A twelve-year-old is swept into an adventure while struggling to recover lost magic and discover their real name. With shadows spreading across home, the child must face unfamiliar dangers and find a way to protect a threatened world.

Ginny must evade more than the zombies surrounding her. The man who sent her and her mother to a supposed refuge is hunting her, determined to finish what began when his promised sanctuary proved to be a deathtrap.

Survivors of a zombie apocalypse continue their struggle to remain alive as the Stay Dead series reaches its sixth installment.

A hospital overrun by zombies contains something the survivors desperately need. Entering it could help them stay alive, but retrieving the supplies requires facing the very danger they have been trying to escape throughout their journey.

After reaching Colorado and beginning a base, Winter and her friends race to gather supplies before cold weather isolates them. Their refuge may keep zombies outside, but the coming winter brings dangers that are not all among the dead.

Fourteen-year-old Lamech is about to reunite with his father after three years in foster care when zombies overrun the city. Trapped with his foster mother, he must find a way through the undead to reach his dad.

As spring arrives, the survivors hope to plant a garden and establish a more ordinary life. Unexpected creatures threaten their settlement, forcing a choice between fighting and leaving while disagreements inside the group endanger their fragile unity.

Already reeling from divorce when the zombie apocalypse begins, Alice leaves Minnesota for the comfort she remembers in Colorado. Her journey through a landscape filled with the undead turns the search for refuge into a desperate fight to arrive alive.

Emaline was studying to become an elementary teacher when the dead began returning to life. Recording her experiences in a diary, she describes the demands of survival and the people she encounters as her intended future disappears.

Once a mother of two, Beihe now survives alone in a world dominated by the undead. When River City's zombies grow smarter and multiply inexplicably, she must decide whether the settlement can still be saved from their changing threat.

Weeks after the world’s collapse, Bridget confronts the loss of her dream of teaching children. Her account of life among the undead follows the struggle to adapt when every day means fighting monsters and accepting an uncertain future.

A year after the outbreak, a group of survivors struggles to make life feel ordinary again. Luke's concealed discovery ignites conflict just as they realize Emily has vanished during a zombie invasion, threatening their already fragile sense of safety.

Searching for refuge during a late winter storm, Winter and her companions discover a mansion filled with mysterious keys. Its promise of a permanent home raises uneasy questions, especially when Luke uncovers something he was never meant to find.

A worker trying to endure the final hour of a shift faces a much worse problem when the dead begin rising. The ordinary frustration of waiting to go home becomes a struggle to survive an abruptly arriving zombie apocalypse.

As zombies overrun Lawrence, Kansas, a dissatisfied worker and a grieving mother find their lives colliding. Trapped in a library, Mike and Abby must escape the dead while Abby struggles to reach her son at daycare.