By all accounts, Evyn Hunter is just your average, unremarkable, and predictable thirteen-year-old boy. His biggest problem is trying to navigate the stormy waters of high school with his sanity and dignity intact. No one-especially Evyn himself-really expects him to do anything important with his life. (Well, almost no one. His first girlfriend, Chloe, thinks he's pretty sweet...)

One day, Evyn wakes up with the terrifying realization that scores of people have disappeared in his beloved hometown of Newport, California-and no one knows why. His curiosity leads him into increasingly...

Just ask any teenager, and they'll tell you that high school is a nightmare.

But for Evyn Hunter it's about to get a whole lot weirder than anything he's ever experienced.When he was only thirteen, people from his hometown of Newport, California started mysteriously disappearing. And when strange agents in dark suits started following him around everywhere, Evyn knew that something really big was going on-and that it was up to him to save the day.

Now, almost a year later, the once-calm and slightly boring streets of Newport are anything but. Hideously transformed zombies are...