From the mind of M. Scott Burgess comes the fourth episode of an episodic book-series that reimagines and redefines the zombie apocalypse genre.
In the near future, the world has died. With no warning, technology and communication shut down and the dead began to rise. They feed on their victims, pulling more to their ranks as they spread at an impossible rate. But hope survives, as a small band of survivors work together to escape from Southern California in hopes of finding sanctuary from a zombie- infested world. Their goal is to find some remnants of civilization but the farther they venture, the more they become aware that the world as they know it has been forever broken. What they don’t realize is, there are things hiding in the shadows, things that are even far worse than the living dead.
Empire of the Dead is the 4th chapter of the 14 part series. It follows the story of the survivors as they escape from hell in Orange County and search for refuge East, in the Inland Empire. What they find however, ends up being anything but safe harbor, and keeps them wondering if they’ll ever find what they’re looking for. (35,889 words)
