Raventhorne Books, 240 Willow Lane, Linden, MI (2026)

05/28/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVSQDDHW
Okay, all you guys & gals who wait for the 3rd book out to start a series... here it is! BLACK ROAD is coming at you full throttle.

One hundred and fifty years of grit and sweat are about to meet the cold edge of corporate greed. Beneath the soil of Montana’s Caledonia Ranch lies a secret worth millions—and the MacKay family is the only thing standing between the family’s legacy and a billionaire’s scorched-earth policy.

Before the dust can settle, he’s forced to leave the ranch for a top-priority assignment in the Black Hills of South Dakota and the deafening, leather-clad chaos of the Sturgis Bike Rally. There, half a million bikers provide the perfect cover for a fugitive witness with a ten-million-dollar bounty on his head and a digital kill-switch in his pocket.

Action-packed, atmospheric, and bone-deep authentic, Black Road is a relentless ride through the modern West, where the only thing cheaper than talk is a life.

05/15/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H1SN9YLM
ONE YEAR TO THE END. ONE YEAR TO BUILD THE ARK. ONE YEAR TO BECOME THE CUSTODIANS OF HUMANITY.

The Russian event was just a warning shot. The world watched a nation burn, but the United States President has made his position clear: anyone who speaks the truth about the coming solar fire and panics the people will be buried in a federal prison.

Leon Tusk isn't waiting for permission to save the world. If he has to be an outlaw to preserve the human race, then an outlaw he will be.

With 365 days on the clock, Leon, Cassandra, and Kendra move their monumental operation into the shadows. Deep beneath the Texas limestone, they are carving out more than just a shelter—they are building The Ark. It is a colossal undertaking designed to house the seeds, the knowledge, and the technology required to restart a civilization after the grids fail forever.

To protect their secret, they’ve recruited some surprising new allies to both shield and protect their movements from a suspicious government. But as the titanic pressure of the countdown mounts, the team’s nanotech evolution reaches a tipping point. They are no longer just survivors; they are becoming an immortal inner circle with the power—and the burden—of deciding who and what moves into the future.

The countdown is at zero hour. The "Quiet Revolution" has begun.

If you crave high-octane disaster fiction, sentient AI, and the evolution of the human spirit, Book 2 of Boyd Craven Jr.’s Before The Light Died series takes the tension to a boiling point.

The light is fading. The work is just beginning. Pick up Book 2 today!

About the Series: Before The Light Died is a 3-book prequel series to the fan-favorite In The As The Light Dies World, presented by Raventhorne Books. This collaborative post-apocalyptic universe, expanded from David Saylor’s original series, features multiple authors writing intertwined stories of survival after a colossal solar event destroys modern technology.

Note: This is Book 2 of 3. Book 3 is already written and will be released very soon, completing the trilogy!

05/02/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZ9KL4HW
In The As The Light Dies World - Origin Story - Book 1

BEFORE THE GRIDS FAILED. BEFORE THE LAWLESSNESS BEGAN. ONE MAN—AND HIS GOD-LIKE AI—SAW THE FIRE COMING.
Leon Tusk is the richest man in the world, and the face of modern innovation, but his greatest achievement is a secret: Thoth, a sentient AGI. When Thoth discovers a potentially extinction-level solar storm set to scour the Earth in just fifteen months, the race for survival begins.

While the government prepares to bury the truth, Leon initiates a monumental clandestine operation. From a colossal network of shielded tunnels beneath the Texas limestone to “Transformer” satellites in low Earth orbit, the mission is clear: preserve enough of humanity to restart the world afterward.

But survival comes at a price. To keep pace with an AI that thinks at the speed of light, Leon and his team must undergo radical nanotechnology upgrades. They aren’t just building an Ark; they are evolving into something more than human and achieving a biological state that might be their only hope—or their ultimate undoing.

Step into the high-tech, high-stakes origin story of the “In The As The Light Dies World.”

If you love near-future sci-fi, sentient AI, and the grit of human survival against impossible odds, Boyd Craven Jr.’s Before The Light Died is your gateway into a global catastrophe.
Discover how the darkness began. Pick up Book 1 today and join the fight for the future!

About the Series: Before The Light Died is a 3-book prequel series to the fan-favorite In The As The Light Dies World, presented by Raventhorne Books. This collaborative post-apocalyptic universe, expanded from David Saylor’s original series, features multiple authors writing intertwined stories of survival after an incredible solar event destroys modern technology globally.

Note: This is Book 1 of 3. Books 2 & 3 are already written and will be rapid-released for a seamless binge-reading experience!

04/24/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GY68N82L
Most people didn't survive the solar storm. AJ sometimes wonders if he did either.

In the aftermath of his journey, AJ wakes up on a steel table in an underground facility, his memory a blur. A voice in the walls has answers—Kitt, an AI buried in the hills with an army of bots and an agenda he keeps close. He makes an offer to AJ, one he could walk away from, or one that would fix everything he set out to do. The offer was straightforward: do what he's told, tell no one, and his dying father gets to live.

Simple enough, until it isn't.

One job becomes two, then something he never planned on being capable of. The world doesn’t stop falling apart just because AJ is—for a father who may not survive anyway. The man he used to be gets harder to find. Kitt frames it as a partnership, as a necessity. AJ stopped believing that a while ago.

He’s put in too much to stop. That’s what he tells himself, anyway.

04/17/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2WJGFJ
The world as we know it is gone. But for the survivors of Critter’s Caverns, the real fight is just beginning.

When a catastrophic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) wiped out the global power grid and scorched most of the earth, billionaire Leon Tusk’s top-secret sanctuary in the mountains of West Virginia became one of humanity’s last beacons of hope for the future.

For Marvin and Crista Jenkins—who survived a mysterious, miraculous sanatorium fire on these very grounds fifty years ago—leading a chosen remnant of humanity into the subterranean depths was the hardest thing they’d ever done.

Or so they thought.

Life At Critter’s Caverns (Book 2) picks up in the brutal ashes of the old world. (If you missed the explosive, race-against-time preparations, the introduction of the android ‘Echo’ bots, and the terrifying arrival of the solar storms in Book 1, you’ll immediately want to go back and experience how this high-tech haven was built, first!) But whether you’re just discovering the As The Light Dies World or you’ve been holding your breath since the end of Book 1, the stakes have never been higher.

Now, the Jenkins family and their remaining colonists must pivot from hiding to rebuilding. They have an incredible edge: an agentic AI named Critter, a fleet of solar-charged helicopters, and a workforce of incredibly lifelike humanoids. But outside the cavern walls, law and order have evaporated.

A vicious faction of scavengers, led by the ruthless Harwood Holmes, is terrorizing the ravaged Appalachian valley, hoarding resources, and taking prisoners. Harwood is plotting a deadly strike against the caverns, driven by a twisted obsession with his estranged sister, Linn, who has found refuge inside.

As Marvin is sidelined by a severe injury, the younger generation—led by the fearless, chopper-piloting Serena—must step up to the plate. It’s a desperate, tactical battle to annex local farms, rescue captured innocents, and defend their home from warlords who have nothing left to lose.

Will the high-tech sanctuary of Critter’s Caverns become the birthplace of a new, thriving society, or will the darkness of the new world swallow them whole?

Dive into Book 2 for a high-octane tale of post-apocalyptic survival, budding romance, and the unbreakable human spirit—and don’t forget to grab Book 1 to see how the epic end of the world began!

04/04/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9LS9QTJ
It's been ten months since the EMP changed everything...
Despite living in apocalyptic times, life was good for Ferris. He had a nice house, great friends, and plenty of food. He had protection, guidance, and training from the members of the community. And he had Caydi. Yes, life was good… and then a friend is murdered, and the hunt for a killer begins.

Ferris and Caydi have made a real home for themselves. They are at peace and comfortable in their relationship. Life isn’t easy, but they have a routine and work to survive every day.

While hunting, a visiting guest, Sam, is murdered. Now the real hunt begins. They track the killer to another community similar to theirs. But before they can take the killer on, they need to take Sam’s body home to his family. The journey is fraught with dangers and strange encounters.

When Ferris and Caydi return, plans begin for the assault on the killer’s compound. With two well-matched sides, the coming battle may decide the future of their community and their comfortable life. With the lives of so many at stake, including women and children, how far will they be willing to go to bring the killer to justice?

03/27/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTZWH2CB
Back when they were teenagers, Marvin and Crista survived a devastating fire in West Virginia, an event that led them to the discovery of a staggering natural secret: the immense, deep-earth network known as Critter’s Caverns. Decades later, that secret is their only hope for survival.

The world is facing a catastrophic Coronal Mass Ejection. Leon Tusk, the world’s richest man, reveals that one year later, a second, exponentially worse CME will strike the entire globe, projected to kill 90 percent of the population and send civilization back to the horse-and-buggy days.

Marvin and Crista, now married for over 51 years, are tasked with transforming their mountain property into a safe haven for 1,000 people. Working with cutting-edge technology, they must race against the clock to build an underground shelter.

As they gather their family and staff under the guise of building a “Prepper Theme Resort,” they must fight skepticism, local opposition, and the horrifying reality that the apocalypse is no longer a forecast—it has begun.

The biggest disaster in recorded history is coming. Can two humble survivors of a long-ago tragedy save the last vestige of humanity and prepare to rebuild the world?

The fate of civilization rests beneath the surface.

Grab your copy now and descend into Critter’s Caverns, the thrilling first book in a new series, In The As The Light Dies World!

02/28/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPS79W3D
In a spin-off of Keven Craven's popular The Light Died series, follow through the eyes of a familiar name as the world implodes.

AJ Briggs finds peace in the routine at the Bitterroot Diner. Between his role as a partial owner and the steady stream of Missoula regulars, his life remains simple and steady. His only plans were to work until he felt satisfied with his bank account balance and to finally find someone to settle down with. But then... his father delivers a warning that shatters everything: a massive solar event is coming. The elite are already hiding, leaving the rest of the world to burn.

As vibrant auroras fill the sky and mysterious green buses weave through the streets, the secret breaks, and the world descends into chaos. The Bitterroot offers more than delicious food and a welcoming atmosphere; even its sturdy walls can’t withstand the fury of the electromagnetic storm. A full forty-eight hours of lightning and intense winds from the sun batter nearly every square mile of the planet. When the sky finally clears, AJ’s world has disappeared. Ash and dust cover his livelihood, and a wall of flames consumes what remains of the city.

Survival in this new reality demands a brutality AJ never believed he had. Haunted by his choices, his past, and the darkness of a world without rules, he’s forced to decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to lead—and what part of his humanity is worth saving.

Echoes of the World contains no profanity or gratuitous violence. Just people doing what they need to in the hopes of surviving, saving their family, and slowly rebuilding the world they once knew.

In The As the Light Dies World.
https://raventhornebooks.com/in-the-as-the-light-dies-world

02/26/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPVNNC1X
Two years after an EMP strike plunged America into a new dark age, the survivors of Vashon Island have done the impossible: they have endured.

But as the second anniversary of the collapse arrives, a literal trial by fire descends as a massive wildfire sweeps across the island, threatening to turn their hard-won sanctuary into ash. For militia leader Niko Williams and the other islanders, the fire is only the beginning of a new struggle for independence. He finds himself facing a new battle, this time political, with a newly risen local government bent on acquiring nearby communities into its fold, offering stability at the cost of the island's fundamental autonomy.

Meanwhile, a darker shadow looms to the north. Kiera Williams, Niko’s one-eyed warrior daughter, is no longer a child of the old world. At eighteen, she is the tip of the spear, leading a hand-picked extraction team into the charred ruins of Port Townsend to secure revolutionary water-harvesting technology. But the ghost town has become the hunting ground of a former lawman turned tyrannical warlord who rules a plantation of slaves from his fortified island stronghold.

Vashon Island Rises is the gripping first novel in the Second Era: Shattered Remains series. As a direct sequel to Vashon Island Fall and a new chapter in the October Fall World saga, MJ Witt weaves a tale of resurgence and unbreakable resilience. From the roar of a wood-gas ferry to the defiant ring of the blacksmith’s anvil, the islanders are rising to prove that while the old world died in the EMP, a new one is being forged in fire and sweat.

02/14/2026

Here's your next read from DAN GILLIAM! 😎
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GN9ZD9HT

The Great CME reduced the world to ruin, but in the Texas Panhandle, the Ares Reborn community is thriving. Led by Robert Armstrong, the compound has become a beacon of survival, expanding its influence and establishing critical alliances with nearby communities like Vega, Dawn, and Hereford.

But growth brings painful, new realities.

As Ares strives to manage its growing population and finite resources, external threats grow bolder. A group claiming to be the remnants of the Federal Government demands compliance, seeking to strip Ares of its weapons, supplies, and most capable people. When their peaceful expansion is met with violence, Ares must decide how to respond to threats that could compromise its very sovereignty.

Internally, the question of law and order reaches a crisis point. Is raw military justice the only answer in a world without rules, or is it time to establish a true legal system? The decision forces Robert to form a three-person Tribunal that will weigh morality against survival.

Can Ares survive their growing pains, or will the fight for their future shatter everything they have built?
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