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About The Book

An exciting paranormal novel from two award-winning authors about what happens when an alien race brings Earth to the brink of the Apocalypse.

What happens when an unprecedented infection sweeps the world, leaving the earth on the brink of the Apocalypse?

But this infection goes far beyond disease. Beyond even the nightmare images of walking dead or flesh-eating ghouls. The infected are turning into creatures unlike anything ever dreamed of . . . more complex, more mysterious, and more deadly.

Trapped in the northwestern United States as winter begins to fall, Terry and Kendra have only one choice: they and their friends must cross a thousand miles of no-man’s-land in a rickety school bus, battling ravenous hordes, human raiders, and their own fears.

In the midst of apocalypse, they find something no one could have anticipated . . . love.

About The Authors

Steven Barnes is an award-winning author of twenty-three novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Cestus Deception. Visit his website at LifeWrite.com.

Photo Credit:

Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at TananariveDue.com.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Atria Books (July 31, 2012)
  • Length: 288 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781451617016

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Raves and Reviews

"Zombie lovers won’t be able to put down Barnes’ gripping yarn, which will leave them hungry for the next installment." — Booklist

“Adds welcome diversity to the crowded zombie field.”

– SchoolLibraryJournal.com

“An enjoyable read . . . . solid storytelling.”

– Zombie Joe Reviews

“Very fast paced and wonderfully written horror.”

– Bookhounds Book Review

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