DEAD READY: Book One — The First Ten Days (A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller)

The movies lied about the dead. Desmond Pruitt means to learn the truth before it gets him killed.When the first of them claws up off the floor of his apartment building, most of Denver does exactly what the films taught them — run, scream, aim for the chest, and die guessing.Desmond does the one thing nobody else thinks to do. He watches. He keeps the body where he can study it, day after day, and he learns the rules the hard way and the right way: what moves the dead, what blinds them, why a scratch kills as surely as a bite, and what a man can stand in front of and still walk away clean. Because the dead aren't magic. They run on rules — hard, consistent, survivable — and the only people still breathing at the end of the first week are the ones who bothered to learn them.He has ten days before the worst of the beginning is over. Ten days to turn a walled courtyard and a handful of terrified strangers into something that lasts. Ten days to prove that in a city full of the dead, the most dangerous thing left standing is a man who refuses to guess.If you like your apocalypse smart, brutal, and grounded in how things actually work — start here.