The world is decimated by a virus. An illness so deadly it instantaneously turns its victims into ravenous creatures. One man, locked alone in the city, battles the abominations. That man is Frank Slagel. It is a story within a story. Frank Slagel, the beloved and not-so-bright fictional hero of the Beginnings Series pens a novel in Series Book Twenty-Four. His own take on a zombie apocalypse. This is that book. Filled with many, 'what the heck' moments, the story veers off of subject and is told in the manner in which only Frank can do. He shares the storytelling with fictional character,...

Returning home from her weekly visit with her incarcerated stepdaughter, Tess Lordes pulls over the family car on the mountain highway ten miles outside of her small town of Falcon's Way, California. It is a brief, unscheduled stop that saves their lives. Cars lose control and crash around Tess and her two children just before a blinding light envelopes the entire sky. No sound of an explosion. No blast waves. In an eerie silence the western sky is transformed into an inferno. The unexplained phenomenon extinguishes all power and disables communication. Although unscathed, it doesn't take...

What would you do if you had the opportunity to have one more hour with someone you love that had died? One more chance to say goodbye, to say I love you. Would you take it? Natalie Baynes is no different than anyone else. She works her job, leads a modest and quiet life. All that changes when a freak accident takes her life. More than just a near death experience, Natalie actually dies. She leaves the boundaries of earth for the spiritual side. She soon finds out that her brief visit to heaven isn't just an accident. Natalie is chosen. She is given the task to select five people who will...

While running an ordinary errand at the grocery store, Macy Anderson's life abruptly changes. In an instant, she watches in horror as people from her small town spiral into a coughing fit and seconds later, drop to their death. Within minutes, cars crash, helicopters fly overhead and the military rolls in setting up a quarantine of the town. This was only the beginning. With the town in chaos, Macy must focus on protecting and keeping her two young sons safe from catching the deadly virus. But how? By the time she processes what all is happening, it is too late. The virus is everywhere. The...

A long awaited sisters vacation hits a slight bump in the road when a series of tremors instantly cause the cancellation of all flights. Believing the airport is not the safest place, Lacey and her sister hurry from the terminal and board a crowded tram. Then it happens. No one knows why, how or what occurs. Cities are decimated, oceans rise and people drop dead from the cataclysmic event. The world becomes a dark place on a fast track to the next ice age. Lacey somehow survives and finds herself in a city of rubble. Unaware that it was a global event, she treks from the destruction in an...