Call them zombies if you must. They're not what will end the world.
FNDz swept through America like a fire no wall could contain. The infected - savage, relentless, stripped of everything human - are terrifying. But they're the opening act. What's emerging from the chaos behind them is something else entirely: a new species, telepathic and predatory, born from the bodies of the infected and bound by none of humanity's limitations. The children of the Fiends are evolving. Faster than anyone is ready for.
Reporter Jon Washington has seen the outbreak up close - too close. Now he's running north through a dying continent, relying on instincts better suited to a newsroom than a war zone. He works alone. Always has.
Nikki Rosen doesn't need him either. She's a disgraced Marine running her own mission - get out, by whatever means necessary - with no patience for a civilian who second-guesses every call. She's been navigating impossible situations long before the world fell apart.
Forced together through desperation and bad luck, they make a volatile team. Jon questions everything. Nikki acts. What neither of them counted on was the other.
Far to the south, a CDC team is racing toward the source of FNDz, chasing answers no one is ready for. But the real threat isn't the infected. Something new has arrived in their wake. Something that thinks. Something that hunts. And it's already ahead of all of them.
Evolution doesn't ask permission.
Of Sudden Origin is the first book in a post-apocalyptic horror saga that goes far beyond the zombie genre into evolutionary terror.
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