NOW WITH MORE STORY PER ISSUE! When a vicious blizzard halts their progress, the team takes shelter in an abandoned hotel. As the snow piles up outside and boredom sets in, stories are shared and secrets are revealed.
As Ian Scott's group continue their trek eastward, Ian desperately struggles to conceal his slowly worsening infection from the others. When a vicious blizzard halts their progress, the team takes shelter in an abandoned hotel. As the snow piles up outside and boredom sets in, stories are shared and secrets are revealed...and Ian's vaccine starts wearing off.
- Dr. Ian Scott has spent two years in a Colorado bunker, working on a cure for a zombie virus that devastated the U.S. Just shy of perfecting his vaccine, he loses contact with the West Virginia bunker housing his fiancee, Jen. Now he and a small band of soldiers and scientists must cross what's left of the country, surviving wild animals, natural disasters, desperate humans, and the ever-looming threat of a resurgent zombie outbreak. - Presenting the complete post-zombie-apocalypse saga by Shocker and Bram Stoker Award-winner Brian Keene (The Rising, City of the Dead, The Conqueror Worm), all in one voracious volume!
Sergeant Warner demands the best from the people under his command, but what does he demand of himself? As the blizzard ends, the demons that drive Warner are finally revealed. But what of Ian’s secrets? Is Doctor Federman about to discover the truth about them?
As the snow outside deepens and the team members continue to reveal their secrets to one another, Ananti tells Ian what happened to her loved ones and how she survived the zombie apocalypse. Meanwhile, the changes within Ian are accelerating at an alarming rate, as the vaccine weakens and the zombie virus in his bloodstream grows stronger.
NOW WITH MORE STORY PER ISSUE! When a freak snowstorm forces the team to seek shelter inside an abandoned hotel, they learn each other’s deepest, darkest secrets. And as the vaccine keeping him alive begins to show signs of weakening, Ian confides in Ananti, reminiscing about his last contact with Jen and wondering what has become of her. Meanwhile, Doctor Federman’s suspicions about Ian’s illness grow.
In his continued bid to take over the magical world of Jade-Realm, Dreadwing the dragon has tricked the were-cat leader, Xercie, into a pact with him. He will grant the were-cats enough wealth and magic to become independently wealthy as a people. All Xercie has to do is help him rescue Serpentus, the leader of the Orcs who overran the were-cats years ago!
On Jade, dragon queen T'mat holds council with the rulers of other races to start mounting preemptive defense against Dreadwing. However, the were-cat leader, Xercie, is still bitter over the dragons' lack of help for her people against Orkrist raiders years ago. When a thief is caught carrying an artifact leading to a vast, draconic treasure horde, she even calls in the Edge-Guard to investigate T'Mat for treachery!
It’s no secret that Doctor Federman has been suspicious of Ian. But what dark secrets is Federman himself hiding? And will what he does next threaten the lives of the team and jeopardize the mission? Don’t miss the shocking conclusion!
The explosive final chapter begins! In the aftermath of Before the After's shocking cliffhanger, the team are imprisoned by a brutal despot, the last surviving member of pre-apocalypse Chicago's notorious political machine. Warner faces torture, Planters is on the run, and time is running out for everyone—especially Ian, who is succumbing to the zombie virus raging through his veins. 26 pages of undeath-defying thrills!