The Zombie Awakening

Previously published as The Smoky Corridor. From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library and coauthor of I Funny and Treasure Hunters, comes a series of spine-tingling mysteries to keep you up long after the lights go out. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. It just doesn’t usually come from the grave. The basement of Zack’s new school is hiding something, or rather someones. Two ghosts, to be exact—Joseph and Seth Donnelly, brothers who perished in a suspicious fire. But the ghosts are the least of Zack's problems. It’s what they warn Zack about that has him truly frightened: there’s an evil zombie lurking beneath the school. Fortunately, Zack has some new friends, Malik and Azalea, who can help in his paranormal adventures. Together they’ll attempt to dodge the zombie, a treasure-seeking hit man, a voodoo-savvy ghost just waiting fora new body, and more. But will they survive until recess or end up on the lunch menu? Read all of Chris Grabenstein's Haunted Mysteries! The Crossroads The Demons' Door The Zombie Awakening The Black Heart Crypt

It's not about the ZOMBIES, it's about the SURVIVORS Attempts to divert a giant meteor from striking the Earth fail. Instead, the meteor was broken and showered the earth with many. One of which strikes a government test facility unleashing a plague like none the world has ever seen. Chalice Hart watches her mother die and then flees their home with her brother and sister. They team up with another group of survivors and head west in search of a safe zone. The horrors they encounter were only imagined in Chalice's nightmares. The one redeeming factor is the handsome Colton Morgan. A young man who quickly becomes much more than a friend. NOW, ALL IN ONE PLACE! Follow Chalice and Colton as they survive a meteor shower that unleashes a monster man had only met in nightmares. The Zombie Awakening contains all 3 novellas.

I never dreamed the world would end this way... Sixteen-year-old Parrish Sorrows is nothing special. She lives in the shadow of her prodigy sister, ignored by her parents and shunned as an outsider at her private school. But today, everything changes. Today, on the other side of the country, a portal to another world opens. A man and a witch step through, both tied to Parrish in ways she could never have imagined. Because of their actions, an ancient evil awakens, spreading a virus that will kill millions in a matter of weeks. When the dead begin to rise, survivors must battle an enemy they can’t even begin to comprehend. But as the world is dying, a mysterious power inside Parrish is reborn. A power that proves she was special all along. A power that shows she’s the key to saving what’s left of the world. ...and she’s not the only one. Told from alternating points of view, Death’s Awakening is equal parts fantasy and horror, witches and zombies, love and loss. It is the story of five extraordinary survivors struggling to realize their destiny as they fight against the darkest evil this world has ever seen. Praise for Death’s Awakening: “Imagine Stephen King's The Stand hooks up with a dark fairytale and begets The Walking Dead.” ~Goodreads Review “A Brilliant, different take on a zombie apocalypse.” ~Goodreads Review “This book is action packed, hair raising, spine tingling, and completely awesome. I loved every single minute of it and couldn't put it down!!!” ~Nerd Girl Reviews

The world ended twenty years ago. A new world arises from the ashes. Diamond City, the last refuge for humanity after the zombie apocalypse, is on the brink of collapse. Their water source is drying, a rebel faction launches attacks on the Council, and worst of all, it appears the Horde descending on the city is actually evolving. Mayor Robbie Wilson, the man lifted up by the people and elected into the Council by overwhelming popular vote, struggles with the eroding ethics of leadership and the grey moral territory he must navigate for his people's safety. Are secrecy and deception necessary for their protection? Scout Eric Bakman traverses the scorched, dead, and lifeless terrain outside the city walls, left blackened by the Zed Bomb. As he feels the invigoration of danger in his journey, he must also face the difficult reality that perhaps the scum of the Earth may in fact become its future. The mysterious leader of Diamond City's rebel group, a deformed man known only as Green Skull, plots his strategy to position himself as the forger of the world's next dominant race, utilizing advanced knowledge of the virus that devastated humanity to rebirth it. On a planet covered in ash and ruin, agents on all sides, human, zombie, and otherwise, engage one another in a power struggle for the fate of all. Zevolution: Zombie Awakening begins a new zombie series unlike any you've read before.

A deadly secret lies hidden beneath the arctic tundra, but now the ground is thawing¿and the dead are rising...Jen Reed joins her retired archaeologist father in remote Alaska, hoping to re-establish a long missing relationship. But when the thawing permafrost outside a village reveals the burial ground of a 19th century whaling crew, Jen and her father fail to heed the warning of village elders, and begin removing bodies for study.As the bodies thaw, they begin to move. To rise. To feed.Communications are cut off and a deadly storm is bearing down on them. Can Jen find a way to save her father, survive the zombie onslaught, and warn the outside world of the coming plague before it¿s too late?

From a tropical resort where visitors can become temporary zombies, to a newly-made zombie determined to protect those he loves, to a cheerleader who won't let death kick her off the team, to a zombie seeking revenge for the ancestors who died on an African slave ship-- Zombiesque invites readers to take a walk on the undead side in these tales from a zombie's point of view.

Nahiri–also known as The Harbinger–has protected her home plane of Zendikar for centuries, her ruthlessness and terrible deeds kept in check by a strong sense of justice. But her fate is far from decided, and a new challenge awaits that may change the way the entire Multiverse perceives her...