The Awakening Heroes

Now available: the first three books in the Envy Chronicles, about the five men known as the Awakening Heroes.

Thrust into a post-apocalyptic world, these remarkable men meet up, spar and partner with the just-as-remarkable women who will win their hearts as they fight an immortal enemy determined to crush all humanity.

Beyond The Night by Joss Ware
Beyond The Night 		Embrace The Night Eternal by Joss Ware
Embrace The Night Eternal 		Abandon The Night by Joss Ware
Abandon The Night

 

And coming January 2011,
Night Betrayed: the fourth book in the Envy Chronicles!

 

"Dark, sexy, and captivating, BEYOND THE NIGHT mixes intense romance with white-knuckle action. Joss Ware's post-apocalyptic world is filled with paranormal danger and compelling, original characters. I can't wait for the next in the series!"

– New York Times Best-selling Author Jeaniene Frost

"Atmospheric and dark, filled with high-stakes action, sizzling romance, and set against a shadowy, post-apocalyptic world that's as fascinating as the varied cast of characters who inhabit it. ABANDON THE NIGHT is a gritty, sexy page-turner – yet another riveting entry in an exciting new series. For those of us who like our paranormal romance on the urban, edgy side, Joss Ware delivers!"

– Lara Adrian, New York Times Best-selling author

About The Series

I was sitting across the table at Olive Garden one day with a good friend of mine, talking about our writing projects, and she said, "Why don't you write a post-apocalyptic romance?"

My first reaction was, "No way!" I mean, how could you have people fall in love and put a believable romance – the most uplifting, positive, happy-ever-after kind of story – in the midst of the mass destruction of the earth and its human race?

But then I got to mulling about it, and once things start to perk, it's hard for me to let go. I started thinking about all the thrillers I'd read and action movies I'd seen where the Bad Guys are trying to destroy the world. They have some great scheme that will annihilate the human race and put them in control, giving them power over all.

Of course, the heroes of the tale always manage to thwart their plots in the end ... but what if, one time, they didn't?

What if the Bad Guys succeeded in their quest for power?

That was how the idea started. And then I realized, I didn't want to set the story too close to the time of the great devastation. It would simply be too depressing, so I knew I wanted the world to have begun to rebound and settle into place. But, yet, I wanted there to be characters who knew and understood what the world had been like before the Change, as I called it. Characters who would make a difference and be saviors to humankind.

I wanted to write about men who lose everything they've ever had or known about themselves and their world, and who have to start all over again ... and the women who help them find their place in this new, stark world.

The result is an action-adventure romance series set in a devastated world that feels a bit like I Am Legend, with the essence of LOST and a paranormal component reminiscent of HEROES.