After a less than successful “easy” stint as the Governor's security detail, the volatile, alcoholic Texas Ranger Jay McCutcheon wants nothing more than to get home to his wife and baby and save his marriage. He thinks the only thing standing between him and his family is five hundred rain-soaked miles of dark pavement. But he’s dead wrong. Isandro Dianira has just broken out of prison. He’s been possessed by an evil voice that has spoken to him since childhood. With his gang-banger thugs, he leaves a bloody trail on his way to Mexico. But before leaving the country, he needs to kill McCutcheon, the pig that put him in the pen. As the two men unknowingly race toward each other, a powerful rainstorm is heading westward, and along with it, a zombie virus that’s causing the dead to rise. Stacy-Jo, a street-tough teenage girl from New York is about to get in some serious trouble, when she meets McCutcheon, who winds up saving her hide from a nasty situation. Together, they hit the road and wind up at a roadside diner, where brutal violence will unfold and the undead will feed.
Author
Thom Erb is a genre fiction writer exploring all shades of darkness and light and the varying definitions of heroism. Refusing to pigeonhole his writing, Thomas strives to craft tales that blur the lines of horror, fantasy, thriller, weird western, science fiction, etc, for both adult and young adult audiences. Until recently, he's focused his work mainly on short stories, but now is adventuring into the realm of long fiction. His first novella, Tones of Home is available now through Crowded Quarantine Press (UK) and here are what a few authors had to say about the work: "With TONES OF HOME Thomas A. Erb takes us home for some deeply disturbing holidays. Chilling and full of bizarre twists. Thumbs up." -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author of FLESH & BONE and V-WARS "Thomas Erb's TONES OF HOME has to be the bloodiest, the most ruthless, and yet the most honest love story I've come across since Natural Born Killers. Erb put his hooks into me with this one and had me guessing right up to the last page. It's a nail-biter through and through, and I'm betting it's going to leave you as stunned as it left me. Oh-and Quentin Tarantino, if you're looking for your next movie, the search stops here." -Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Inheritance and Dead City. “If you’re into old school Rock and Roll and like your horror fiction dark and super nasty like I do, you’re going to LOVE Thomas A. Erb’s new book. TONES OF HOME is extreme horror at its best and it knocked me on my ass when I read it. Highly recommended!” -Gord Rollo, Author of THE JIGSAW MAN and THE CRUCIFIXION EXPERIMENTS. "TONES OF HOME is full-tilt, in-your-face horror ... If blood and mayhem are to your taste, you'll be satisfied to the max. ... And I will never be able to listen to the Beatles music the same way again." Rick Hautala- Author of Indian Summer and Glimpses. 'Tones of Home' starts at full-speed and never lets up. Unpredictable and astonishingly bloody! “Thomas A. Erb's story telling is a brutal, fast-paced read which hooks the reader in from the very start. Gallons of blood, plenty of violence, and the Fab Four… you'll not have read anything like this before!” David Moody, author of HATER and AUTUMN Series. He is also an editor/designer on his first anthology, "Death, Be Not Proud".Published through Dullahan Press/Dark Quest Books. His second editing/design credit is for A Christmas in Hell (2012) through Drunken Skald Press. Thomas is concentrating on novella/novel length works, as well as comic book scripts and screenplays. His current work in progress is a young adult series entitled The After School Monster Hunter club. Thomas is also an artist/illustrator of murals and book covers,comic books/graphic novels. When not writing, is active on all forms of social media and enjoys quality films, comic books, television shows, role-playing games, playing drums, comic books and rooting for the Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees. He lives in backwoods of upstate New York and is continually lamenting about the cold weather and snow with his wife Michelle. His art is heavily inspired and influenced by the golden age of comic books such as: Jack Kirby, John Buscema, John Byrne to more modern artists Bart Sears and Jim Lee. His painting gurus hail from the traditional artists : Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Durer to fantasy painters and illustrators ranging from Frank Frazetta t
