Two very different women flee into the Texas Hill Country on the first day of the zombie rising. Together they struggle to rescue loved ones, find other survivors, and avoid the hungry undead.

As The World Dies: The First Days: A Zombie Trilogy

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Rhiannon Frater

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Katie and Jenni have found new lives with the survivors of their makeshift fort, but danger still lurks. Nothing is easy in the new world where the dead walk and every day is a struggle to keep safe. As the elements, bandits, and the zombie horde threaten their safe haven, Jenni and Katie join the other survivors in fighting to survive as the world dies.

As The World Dies: Fighting To Survive: A Zombie Trilogy

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Fighting to Survive (As the World Dies, 2)

The hundred or so survivors in the fortified heart of Ashley Oaks are running out of food and room. The newly renovated historic hotel seems a perfect sanctuary — if it can be emptied of zombies. A pitched battle in the banquet room is the start of a harrowing, room-by-room struggle from reception to roof. The connection between beauty and death has never been more apparent to Katie, Travis, Jenni, and Juan than when they celebrate and mourn in the hotel’s lovely rooftop gazebo. As search-and-rescue teams bring food, supplies — and more survivors — back to town, they draw unwanted attention. Bandits see the fort’s citizens as competition for dwindling stocks of unspoiled provisions . . . and as a ready source of women to be used and abused. The bandits’ first few attacks are minor skirmishes, but Travis and Juan, unofficial leaders of the community, know there is worse to come. Outside threats are not the fort’s only concern. The mayor’s failing health spurs a battle for power. Travis’s vow never to kill faces its greatest test. A vicious assault on Katie leads to vigilante action that shatters the rule of law. Jenni’s tenuous hold on sanity begins to slip. Juan is accused of murder. And beyond the fort’s walls the zombies shamble, moaning, eyes fastened hungrily upon the living. “One of the few zombie novels fueled by the power of feminine protagonists in an apocalyptic world gone wrong.” - Harrisburg Book Examiner on The First Days “Joins the most imaginative of horrors with memorable characters and heartfelt honesty.” - David Dunwoody, author of Empire and Dark Entities, on Fighting to Survive “Intensely compelling . . . outstanding.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The First Days

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The First Days (As the World Dies, 1)

This Is the Way the World Ends Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with the rending and tearing of flesh. It begins on a peaceful, beautiful morning. Katie, a prosecutor, is driving to work when a dead man jumps into her car and tries to eat her. Elsewhere in the city, Jenni, a housewife, opens a bedroom door to find her husband devouring their infant son. Fate puts Katie outside Jenni’s door when the younger woman flees her zombified family. Fate — and Katie’s quick reflexes behind the wheel — see them safely out of the city while most of the living are quickly chased down by the undead. The two women begin a cross-Texas odyssey to rescue Jenni’s oldest son and hopefully find safety . . . somewhere. . . . Jenni discovers the great joy of watching a zombie’s head explode when she shoots its brains out. Katie learns that her analytical mind is perfect at planning the best attacks and escape routes. A small, isolated, fortified town is their only hope. Fewer than one hundred people have gathered there, clinging to civilization and to hope. They all know the zombies will come for them. But until that day, they will live, and love, and maybe even laugh. “Joins the most imaginative of horrors with memorable characters and heartfelt honesty.” - David Dunwoody, author of Empire and Dark Entities “Beautiful and haunting.” - American Horror Blog

First Days, The (As the World Dies, 1)

Siege (As the World Dies, 3)

The old world is gone, shattered by the zombie plague. In the tiny town of Ashley Oaks, Texas, a hundred or so survivors are building a new world, beginning with a high-walled fort. They've defended their home against ravenous zombies and cruel bandits, gathered supplies, established a civil government, and even found love among the ruins. Katie has made peace with the loss of her beloved wife. To her own surprise, she has remarried and is pregnant with her husband's child. Jenni, her stepson Jason, and her new love, Juan, have become a family, though Jenni still has nightmares about her abusive husband, Lloyd, who is a zombie. A supply run gone terribly wrong leads to the discovery of another group of survivors, trapped in a failing shopping mall. Their every move is controlled by a power-hungry U.S. senator who has had her eyes on the fort almost since the first day. She plans to offer it as a trophy to the president of the United States, who is still alive and commanding the remnants of the U.S. military. For some, the opportunity to recover even fragments of the old world is an irresistible temptation. For others, the freedom of the new world, despite its terrors, is more than worth fighting for. The final battle for the fort--and, in a way, for the soul of America--is about to begin. "One of the few zombie novels fueled by the power of feminine protagonists in an apocalyptic world gone wrong." --Harrisburg Book Examiner on The First Days: As the World Dies "Joins the most imaginative of horrors with memorable characters and heartfelt honesty." --David Dunwoody, author of Empire and Dark Entities "A vivid picture of what the world could become if a zombie outbreak were to occur. Jenni and Katie are intriguing characters, and I found it fascinating to follow their story. I found myself on the edge of my seat, turning the pages to find out what was going to happen next." --Bitten by Books (5 out of 5 tombstones) on The First Days

Amaliya Vezorak always believed she was destined to live a failed life in obscurity until she was brutally murdered by an ancient vampire named The Summoner and reborn as a powerful vampire necromancer. Now it is up to her to save the world.

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