Adrift Among the Dead: A Zombie Apocalypse Thriller (Wrack and Ruin)

The dead aren’t just rising. They’re evolving—and humanity is running out of time.

As the world continues to unravel, Zoe, Oliver, and the small group of survivors who have become family make the bold and risky decision to push west toward the one place that might still offer hope—Cheyenne Mountain, a Cold War fortress carved deep into the Colorado Rockies. Zoe has her own reason for pushing west. A fragile lead suggests her best friend Alexis may still be alive—and in danger.

Zoe isn’t the only one trying to reach the mountain. President Ona Freeman has been fighting to hold the government together since the first hours of the outbreak—but the road from Washington has cost her dearly. Each safe house falls, each evacuation fails, and the circle of people she trusts grows smaller with every stop.

Meanwhile, across the heartland, the infected are changing. They are no longer wandering. They are gathering. Forming grotesque amalgamations of flesh and bone, drawn toward something no one yet understands. By the time Zoe and the others reach Cheyenne Mountain, one truth will be impossible to ignore:

The parasites have a plan.

Will humanity’s last stronghold be the salvation Zoe and the others desperately need? Or will they arrive only to find hope is already lost, and salvation is nothing more than a deep tomb?

Adrift Among the Dead is the fourth book in the Wrack and Ruin series—Otto Schafer’s answer to readers around the world asking for zombie fiction that feels fresh, terrifyingly plausible, and impossible to put down.