“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)

Outbreak - Week One

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-four 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 a year 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 push the communist invaders back into the sea. When the PLA’s purported Spring Offensive fails to materialize, Cade leads his Pale Riders on a mission to Idaho, where he finds clues that lead him to believe the CCP leadership has a sinister new plan in the works. A plan whose game-changing main component will allow the enemy to quickly finish the job Omega started.

To confirm the validity of the evidence, Cade needs to interrogate a recently apprehended high-value target. With the clock ticking and time of the essence, he makes an overture to an old friend. 

Will his request be heard in time to mount an adequate response to the perceived threat? Will the walls hold against the multitude of walking dead drawn to the hustle and bustle of New District, Colorado? 

In the end, will Cade finally be granted the closure necessary to extinguish the fury threatening to burn a hole in his heart? Or will the infamous Mr. Murphy throw a monkey wrench into the operation and succeed in ruining everything they’ve worked so hard to create? 

Come along and find out who has what it takes to survive the zombie apocalypse. 

Edited by Monique Happy Editorial Services. 120,000 words.