Two hundred and fifty years after the zombie apocalypse, the surviving humans live under the rule of a regime which denounces technology and knowledge as the source of the Scourge… Without an empire, Gabriel wanders the wilderness. Ezekiel tries to convince him to take back his throne. Gabriel isn’t interested Nathaniel fights off villagers who are convinced he is the second coming of the messiah. Michal and Darius struggle to keep their tenuous hold as rulers. But they are all devastated by the knowledge that the necromancer’s presence is drawing the revenants. Now the monsters are coming south in hordes, tearing at fences, pounding on walls, their jaws open and gaping. Hungering. For flesh. Empire of Rust is a serial novel being published in six parts. This is the fifth installment.