"I have lived a life worth speaking about, and have seen things that would leave a modern man weeping in fear. I have outlived my entire family and have lived to see a time that one could not think possible. I have traveled the globe, and I have spread an empire greater than anything that I could have ever accomplished in my mortal life. I am here to speak of these accomplishments, to tell my story for once without the smoke and mirrors of the silver screen, or the whispers in the dark of a pub where it's better that you pretend you don't notice the regal, pale man in the corner who hasn't...

Every outbreak starts somewhere... A young girl, admitted tot he hospital with was was assumed to be a particularly violent strain of the flu narrates her experiences as she slowly succumbs to a mystery illness. She is reduced to a nameless subject, affectionately called "Zero" by her doctor, desperate to save her. Dehumanized and reduced to a series of charts and tests, Zero takes the reader on a journey through her suffering, and her acceptance of her illness. Will her doctors be able to save her before the sickness takes her?

A lot can happen in 24 hours. A patient can die. A doctor can end up in quarantine. And all hell can break loose. Doctor Liam Alexander is still reeling from the loss of the patient he'd affectionately referred to as "Zero." When he wakes up, alone and abandoned in quarantine, he knows something has gone wrong. Upon further investigation of why he'd been abandoned, he discovers that quarantine had failed and the dead were rising. Liam teams up with Charlotte, a nurse who had failed to escape the hospital in the initial rising. Together, they must escape and find safety, or else succumb to the...