Written by Z.A. Recht
Format: MP3

Plague of the Dead takes off in Plague of the Dead. A new virus rises from the depths of Africa, turning all in its path into fevered brutes, actively hunting those few who remain uninfected.

From the West, General Francis Sherman leads a ragtag band of soldiers and survivors across America in the hopes of finding a vaccine before they're all taken by carriers. From the East, Dr. Anna Demilio, the world's best shot at finding the vaccine, heads toward a little-known laboratory with a spunky anchorwoman and a tough-as-nails NSA defector. The two groups plan on meeting in the middle—if they live.

Thunder and Ashes picks up a brace of months after Part One left off. Those who survived the initial pandemic find themselves in an alien world, though few enough can make the same boast. It seems to the survivors that nearly every town has been wiped clean of uninfected human life. Of course, there is the occasional bastion of civilization—and vice. Added to the already-considerable menace of the infected are the threat of bullets, shot, and malice from those living beings who choose to stand in the way of the survivors.

Survivors:
For the world, the Morningstar Virus was the end. For these Survivors, it was just the beginning.

Their journey across the decimated United States is one of hardship and sacrifice, but it also one with a goal: the Cure. This is the story of two separate bands of survivors, fighting to thrive, post-Morningstar. Now that the dust has settled and people that have made it through to the other side have found themselves living a nightmare, the old rules of society have no bearing in this new world.

As these small groups of Survivors come together, including a virologist in one and an immune soldier in another, they face not only the constant threat of the Infected and marauding Raiders that live of robbing others, but the more devious threat of Sawyer, an agent of the Chairman of the Reunited States of America, who believes that Doctor Demilio already has the cure, and he will stop at nothing to find her.

The Survivors fight not only for the future, but for their own souls, as they learn that, even here, at the End of the World, there are some lines they will not cross.