Told between two perspectives one based in the early days of the infection and the other immediately after the events in Book 7, the story looks towards the future and addresses many questions that, until now, have remain unanswered and, in some cases, unasked..... Hopetown survivors head out to track a couple down, both to avenge the death of one of their own and to rescue Hannah from making a terrible mistake, and discover other survivors who have news of what has been going on in the outside world since the last time some of them left the compound. The scenes of past battles and events are...

By now the Hopetown survivors might have learned that their rescue plans rarely go as planned and usually have a high body count but no, off they go again wading in before they have a chance to realize just how dire their situation is. When curiosity about how events turned out at a local mall leads a team to investigate, they find that movies only showed a slice of the horror that arises when zombies rule the earth- and the mall. The question of how to react to the Hybrids is finally addressed as the Hopetown survivors are forced to admit some home truths. Namely, that one amongst them has...

Big Bill: An older African American man who can't read or write Johnny: A truck-stop waitress who loves fighting the undead Juan: A handsome Hispanic man with a big heart These are the new heroes left to fight for the world. Like an event horizon, it's too late to stop the infection that has turned most of the world's population into flesh-eating zombies, but those who have survived have a lot to accomplish. The team, trained by a former Marine, emerges from the rubble to rescue others and find the city has become a horrific nightmare and the zombies and looters have left nasty surprises. As...

ith a safe place to live, the survivors of the zombie apocalypse should have it easier, but supplies have to be amassed, people have to be rescued, and forgotten skills have to be relearned before winter comes. On one side, a group tries to rebuild and make a better world as they gather around Zane, a bright child who is full of positive energy and promises of hope. In the opposing camp, a dark child with a withered face and one eye leads an army of violent men who have refined torture, cannibalism, and slavery to an art. Both sides know that soon they will face one another in the ultimate...

Rage continues the Z for Zombie series with a group of the Hopetown survivors heading out beyond the confines of their safe walls to hunt down the two Hybrids that they invited into their home with disastrous results. Unfortunately their paths soon cross with what is left of the American military who take hostages and demand certain terms be met. Len. Kimball, Nick ( the president of the United States' brother) are tortured and are going to be crucified unless a really bad plan to save them works. There's no way the plan can work. They plan for a rag-tag group to provide rescue while a boy...

In 1974, a crime wave shakes a small town as children are murdered while camping with their scout troops or parents; a few were kidnapped. A young deputy, Virgil McLendon, is forced to lead an investigation into the brutal murders while a nation watches, wondering at his new techniques. No one has heard of profiling and few know how to read a crime scene. Eventually, these methods will shape the new Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI, but in 1974, they are thought to be strange. Virgil McLendon feels he is chasing ghosts as the killers kidnap young people, torture victims, leave a trail of...