
Greed, terrorism, and simple bad luck conspire to bring mankind to its knees as a viral infection spreads out of control, reducing those infected to undead horrors that feed upon the rest.
It's a time of misery and death for most, however there are some who are lucky, some who are ruthless, and some who are just too damned tough to go down without a fight. This is their story.
What the readers say about The Apocalypse:
"No frills, just raw and earnest fear."
"Fun and scary, it will have you turning the pages right to the end..."
"This has everything I love in a good story: interesting characters, vivid details, fast pacing, and a shocker at the end."
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Greed, terrorism, and simple bad luck conspire to bring mankind to its knees as a viral infection spreads out of control, reducing those infected to undead horrors that feed upon the rest.
It's a time of misery and death for most, however there are some who are lucky, some who are ruthless, and some who are just too damned tough to go down without a fight. This is their story.
What the readers say about The Apocalypse:
"No frills, just raw and earnest fear."
"Fun and scary, it will have you turning the pages right to the end..."
"This has everything I love in a good story: interesting characters, vivid details, fast pacing, and a shocker at the end."
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This is not an uplifting tale of heroes and heroines. Get that out of your head now. It's a tale of survival. It's a tale of dried blood beneath your nails, of new pain, of gnawing hunger and unrelenting loneliness, of fear and hatred, and yes, of courage.
In The Apocalypse, the great majority of the men and women who fought with honor, with a sense of duty and loyalty, gave their lives for others, leaving those without honor to flourish and rule. Their rule is not marked by decency or civility, but by wicked brutality.
Yet, in some very rare cases, the kind and the noble survived. These hardened
survivors learned to live among the undead, but now they must learn how to stay
alive among creatures that are far more monstrous: their fellow man.
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For others that hard death hounds them day and night, relentlessly.
When a huge bounty is placed on their heads, Neil Martin’s misfit family is set upon by ruthless bounty hunters. They are pursued by sociopaths, sadistic ex-soldiers and of course the warped Believers of New Eden. There is no refuge, no place of safety, no shining city on a hill that will take them in. They are outcasts and doomed to flee from their enemies until they’re forced to make one great stand.
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When confronted with that evil, fight or flight are their dire choices, only Neil’s small group is forced to take on more refugees who come to them empty-handed, unarmed, and hungry.
Neil is faced with the disturbing prospect of guiding them across two thousand miles of zombie-plagued-land, only to stumble at his first hurdle: the mighty Mississippi has become a river of death and, like the fabled River Styx, the only way to pass is to pay the river man his fee. His price: warm bodies.
What the readers say about The Apocalypse Fugitives:
“I would rate this series as among the BEST in zombie fiction…”
“I love Jillybean! Jillybean for president!”
“This series, by far, is the most compelling, well-written zombie series out there.”
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For the Renegades who are unarmed and hounded over half the state by ruthless bounty hunters, there’s only one thing that they can say is simple: dying. Surrounded by enemies and without help from the imprisoned Captain Grey, they flee from one trap into another with little but the wits of Jillybean and Neil’s steadfast leadership to keep them alive. But is it enough?
Not by a long shot.
They have to dig deep and take wild chances to stay out of the clutches of the River King…and they find out the hard way that there are consequences to rolling the dice against the devil.
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The journey across the zombie-filled country does not get easier for the renegades. The Great Plains, the heart-land of America is now home to vast herds of the undead. These savage hordes sometimes stretch as far as the eye can see. Among them live the Azael—men who have regressed back to the bloody and chaotic roots of our collective ancestors where only the strong or the blood-thirsty survive.
These far-flung tribes control the interior of the country, using great armies of zombies to inflict their will upon their neighbors. For the moment they are at peace with the soldiers of Colorado and for the moment they only see in Neil and the Renegades a way to make easy money escorting them across their lands at a steep price.
It’s a moment that can’t last.
The specter of death lurks among the group. It haunts them and strikes again and again until its appetite is wetted to a point where it can no longer hide behind the innocent face of Jillybean. What skulks in the depths of her mind is driven by ferocious desires, chief of which is the hunger for death. It’s a hunger that will never be satiated not until each and every one of them is dead.
Betrayal, murder, war—The Apocalypse Exile.
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But, perhaps worse that all of this, they have to deal with a seven year old girl—Jillybean. Cruelly coerced into helping her enemies, Jillybean bends her mind to the destruction of the valley, the death of kings and the loss of her own soul, and when Jillybean puts her mind to something there’s no saving it, ever.
Against this overwhelming force is pitted the iron in Grey’s muscles, the quickness of Sadie’s feet, the determination in Deanna’s steel blue eyes and...and small and weak Neil Martin whose greatest gift is seeing the good in people and ruthlessly killing them if he has to.
The Apocalypse War is upon them and survival is all that matters.
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Neil is the only one who sees in the little girl a chance at a new beginning. He hopes to harness her genius for the benefit of the valley, but when the gamble fails he must send the only two people he can trust out into a dangerous world to gather more supplies.
Sadie and Captain Grey set off with a squad of soldiers…and are not heard from again.
For Jillybean, months alone without the endless danger, the mind-shaking explosions, and the screams that haunt her day and night have left the wounds on her psyche, tenuously scarred over. She can function and her mind is as razor sharp as it has ever been, but now she is cold and grim.
She’s also as desperate for love as always, and on her own, she finds her way back to the valley, only to discover that the rumors of her murderous past have grown and the people of the valley have been turned against her.
With nothing to lose and her family in desperate trouble, some missing, some on the edge of banishment, she agrees to go on one more adventure. It’s an all or nothing gamble with her life and the lives of anyone foolish enough to get in her way, on the line.
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Setting out to find a family who will lover, she discovers an orphaned boy of her own age named Chris. He brings her a feeling of hope that she desperately needs because she also discovers a purpose, one fraught with danger and one that might end in the most horrifying death imaginable.
Having waded through an ocean of blood from New York to Colorado, Jillybean is haunted by the idea of revenge. How many fathers or mothers or loved ones has she struck down in her simple quest just to survive? Thousands upon thousands, in all probability. Perhaps more frightening is the question of how many enemies she had left alive and how many more she had created? And how many hundreds of them are consumed with the desire to take revenge on her?
When a terrifying weapon goes missing, the nightmare of revenge becomes a reality and Jillybean must throw herself into a quest to save the Estes Valley from utter destruction. There is just one problem: is the threat even real? Are there people actually roaming the valley at night killing in a terrifying manner? Or are all these enemies figments of her warped imagination?
As the death toll mounts, the people of the Valley begin to ask: Is Jillybean the nightmare? Is she the one doing the killing? And if so, who has the wits to match her genius and stand against her?
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Instead of risking everything on a blind thrust across the Rockies to the Pacific, Neil sends out three picked teams to not only find a safe passage through the mountains but to also find a community that will take them in. Captain Grey is the obvious choice to lead one team, but is Sadie really the person to take charge of another?
She is a capable leader, a survivor, and a veteran of dozens of battles, but can she control the schizophrenic eight-year-old who won’t leave her side even when the blood starts to run and the voices scream in her head?
And what happens when their mission is balanced on the knife’s edge with disaster on either side and Jillybean a second from going nuclear. Will Sadie be able to make the hardest of sacrifices for the sake of her family? Or will she let love get in the way?
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In the beginning there were sleepovers and best friends and pizza on Fridays. Then the monsters came. First it’s the human monsters, raping, murdering and stealing everything they can get their hands on.
Then come the real monsters and survival is no longer a matter of luck. To survive the dead, a little girl has to become something else. She has to become more than human while at the same time she has to sink into depravity that’s beyond the bounds of society.
Within this book are four stories of survival that paint a picture of true madness coupled with raw innocence and a breathtaking genius.
The origin of Jillybean has been shrouded in mystery, until now.
This book contains four Novellas:
The Courage to Survive
The Witch: Jillybean in the Undead World
The First Giants
The Apocalypse Origin
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Eight-year-old Jillybean was having that kind of day. To make matters worse, she couldn’t remember who she had killed or why? The previous night was a complete blank. A normal person might have embarked on an investigation to clear their name—the thought never occurred to Jillybean.
All she cared about was finding that damned body and hiding the evidence before the people of Bainbridge realized that she was crazier than any of them guessed.
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Peter, I'm a huge fan. Just sorry to see this series end.
Peter Meredith is the multi-genre author of forty novels including: The Undead World, an 11 book series, The Trilogy of Void, The Hidden Lands Series, The Sacrificial Daughter, A Perfect America and Sprite.
Peter has written Drama, horror, Fantasy, Apocalypse and Post Apocalypse novels.
He is proud to have served in the U.S. Army for 4 years, serving in the 82nd airborne division and as a medic during Gulf War 1. Also having tried his hand in real estate, and a CEO of a national lighting company, he has come to find that his true addiction is in writing and been blessed to make it his full-time career.
Peter resides in Colorado with his wife Stacy, of 27 years. They have two grown children and a grandchild who also live in Colorado.
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