SURVIVING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: FAMILY
“A gut-wrenching, hard hitting series that will leave you breathless.” John O’Brien - Best-selling author of the New World series
“Shawn Chesser is a master of the zombie genre.” Mark Tufo - Best-selling author of the Zombie Fallout series
“Through a combination of tight, well-structured plots and fully realized characters, Chesser has emerged as one of the top indie writers in the business.” Joe McKinney – Two-time Bram Stoker Award winner and best-selling author of the Dead World series
SURVIVING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: FAMILY
Edited by Monique Happy Editorial Services
106,000 words
Outbreak - Week 1
Presidents, premieres, prime ministers, entire governments disappeared instantly, like a fragile house of cards in a hurricane. Some hid deep underground or holed up in fortified strongholds, but most were swallowed up by the dead, never to be heard from again.
Created in a biosafety level 4 lab in Wuhan, China, a bioweapon meant to sicken and quickly kill an enemy population—leaving intact infrastructure, resources, and vast swaths of fertile farmland—instead causes the infected to die and return as mindless, flesh-eating zombies.
When the bioweapon escapes the BSL-4 lab and all efforts to contain its rapid spread within Hubei province fail, the Chinese Communist Party leadership dispatch agents to the United States with one mission: to level the playing field by seeding an unsuspecting American population with what will eventually be known worldwide as the Omega virus.
As the zombie scourge spreads like wildfire, the People’s Liberation Army takes advantage, landing sizeable ground forces on America’s shores.
Now, nearly four years later, having lost many loved ones and brothers in arms to Omega, Captain Cade Grayson—father, Patriot, Delta Force commander—has one goal in life: to arm his soon be seventeen-year-old daughter, Raven, with all the knowledge and skills necessary to survive their rapidly changing world and live up to the Bird of the Apocalypse nickname bestowed upon her by her Godfather Duncan Winters.
While on a foraging mission Raven presses her father to finally make good on a promise made to her in the early days of the zombie apocalypse.
Taking advantage of a mandatory stand down from commanding his Pale Riders team, Cade leads a solemn father daughter mission that will take them through hundreds of miles of western New America — a yet to be conquered frontier teeming with zombie hordes, roving bands of opportunist breathers, and the scattered remnants of a mostly defeated invading army.
To make an already daunting mission even more dangerous, the Graysons have reason to believe they are being stalked by an unknown entity, their motives unclear.
Will Raven gain the skills necessary to help her finally begin to emerge from under her father’s shadow?
In the end, will a promise fulfilled heal old wounds and further strengthen familial bonds?
Or will the infamous Mr. Murphy once again throw a monkey wrench into the operation and further delay much needed closure?
Come along and find out who has what it takes to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse.
