Twenty years after the dead rose, the human race has a last line of defense: a fortified compound built over a sealed military bunker, where children are being born again, the schools are reopening, and the only newspaper in the world reports that the zombie threat is finally in decline.
Konnor Roland has earned his place there. Once a rookie police sharpshooter, now the compound's best shot, he spends his days clearing the county of the dead one head shot at a time. Every night he comes home to a wife and two kids he never expected to have. And every night the past comes back for him: the nephews he couldn't save, the lonely farm in the frozen north, and the friends he left behind the day the water tower came down.
Then someone poisons the water supply.
With the taps about to run dry, the compound's only doctor sends Konnor down into the bunker alone. He has a hazmat suit, eight hours of air, and a crowbar, because a single stray bullet could breach a failing nuclear reactor. The place was supposed to be empty. It isn't.
Somewhere in the flooded tunnels below lies the truth about where the plague came from, who let it out, and the one thing that might still end it. But the man who has been waiting down there in the dark for years has his own ideas about who deserves to walk back out.
The sequel to 20 Years after the Zombie Apocalypse, and a complete story in its own right.