**From debut author, Kristi Buckel, comes a power depiction of fast paced horror with raw, unfiltered emotion.**A bewildered PhD student teams up with a skeleton crew staff at the zoo to combat a comon enemy.The zoo is never a quiet place. Laughter, screams, and the trumpets of elephants echo through the gates.Eleanor "Lens" Rigby studies prey animals, and she spends most of her time behind the desk or staring at zebras. When her boyfriend, Ben, comes into the office and tells her one of the lions is acting a little off, she expected a budding romance or a spat over a turkey leg ... not this.The investigation didn't take long. Something was wrong with the zoo; something dangerous. Just as Lens and the company make the impromptu decision to close the zoo gates, they realize that they aren't alone. A tour group of young children there to learn about the animals floods the zoo, leaving Lens and friends wielding cookie sheets and fire axes to try and keep them safe.Will they stay alive long enough to get the kids the hell out of Dodge...err, zoo...or, or will the massacre begin with no end in sight?