In a scientific and spiritual sense, humanity has its world ordered, but that order slowly descends into chaos when something defies the tenets of both, leaving the events of human history divided into life before and life after the bodies of the dead began to reanimate. College student Jeff Grey comes home to be confronted by something he'd only read about in fiction and seen in movies: Zombies. Despite lungs beset by asthma and a total lack of survival skills, his lifelong desire to endure an undead apocalypse sees him unite a small group of acquaintances, but with the town quarantined as emergency infrastructure breaks down, Jeff and the rest of the survivors will have to grow up fast if they want to see a life after the arising...

The death of a relative can be tough on a family, but nothing makes their passing more punishing than jealousy and greed. When the recently deceased William Pelletreau leaves nothing to his scorned family, brother-in-law Holt Prendergast coerces his wife Judy to give him the cheapest burial his funeral contract will allow. However, Holt's obsession with squeezing every penny leads to the discovery that the local cemetery's secrets are as dubious as they are terrifying, and if Holt wants William buried his way, he might have to dig a grave himself. Taking place before the events of [Life After: The Arising](https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=%20Life%20After:%20The%20Arising " Life After: The Arising"), Life After: The Cemetery Plot enriches the arc of the series by filling the void of questions the novel's characters can't answer, such as the cause for the car accident on route 3, how it is the undead can dig out of their graves, and most importantly, who is patient zero?

It's two months into the zombie apocalypse. The mystery surrounding how the dead came back is officially unsolvable, but that won't stop two crusading truthers from paying a lethal price for their answers. Eric Matthews and Mia Muxworthy, the former a conspiratorial fanatic and the latter a hard-bitten realist, seek the origin of an undead scourge that has ravaged their hometown. Eric staunchly believes it began with a secret government project while Mia fights to remain open-minded, but their radical thinking is about to collide with a harsh reality: the abysmal fringes of human nature are far more insidious than any conspiracy theory they could have imagined. Bridging the gap between [Life After: The Arising](https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=%20Life%20After:%20The%20Arising " Life After: The Arising") and its sequel [Life After: The Void](https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=%20Life%20After:%20The%20Void " Life After: The Void"), Life After: The Basement presents the devastating backstory behind one of the most explosive moments in the series while calling into question whether ignoring the danger of digging for the truth is worth unearthing the horrifying realities buried beneath the surface of society.

Love isn't always enough, but at the opening gasp of the apocalypse, it may be all you have left. Adam Wilent and Shar Antosky have been split up for months, but neither of them can let go; while Shar suffers silently with a flaky new companion, Adam has turned his old flame into a burning obsession. Shar's invitation for Adam to visit her on a late shift brings tensions to a boil, but as the former lovers quarrel, the living dead swarm the area. Between fighting the undead and each other, Adam and Shar only have a few hours to figure out what sacrifices they have to make in order to survive. Set during the events of [Life After: The Arising](https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=%20Life%20After:%20The%20Arising " Life After: The Arising"), and offering a unique insight into one of the novel's major characters, Life After: The Phoenix explores the myriad of emotions stirred when a breakup is complicated by the onset of a disaster and considers the pain and abuse we endure for the sake of love.

The Undeath Syndrome Surveillance and Diagnosis report is a fake medical research document produced as a form of short fiction within the world of the [Life After](https://www.goodreads.com/series/174731) series, examining the epidemiology and known scientific data gleaned from the emergence of zombies as depicted in [Life After: The Arising](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25503193.LifeAfterTheArising " Life After: The Arising"), [Life After: The Cemetery Plot](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32060354.LifeAfterTheCemeteryPlot " Life After: The Cemetery Plot"), [Life After: The Maze](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58516569.LifeAfterTheMaze " Life After: The Maze") and the world beyond…

The beginning of the end has come and gone. Jeff Grey and his motley crew have survived the first days of the zombie apocalypse, and though they’ve prepared for a life after the arising, the collapse of society is tearing them apart. While Jeff struggles to confront his demons, bitter infighting casts doubt on whether his companions can survive each other, let alone the dangers of an epidemic. Just when this internal strife threatens to turn toxic, they are seized by a devastating chain of events that drags them into the world they’d hoped to avoid; the undead may be a grave enemy, but nothing is more terrifying than the unknown. With time running low as his struggle to survive blurs the boundaries of good and evil, Jeff has no choice but to brave the void that lies ahead...

Making a choice can be difficult in even the best circumstances, but when zombies are thrown into the mix, the stakes are literally life or death. Trapped in an impossible situation with three other survivors, Mallory Dearden does her best to outrun the undead in order to keep her diverse quartet alive. Having reached a bizarre structure in the middle of a forest, Mallory is forced to put her wit and will to the test; though her friends bravely negotiate a labyrinth of dead ends and capricious obstacles in seek of refuge, these four doomed souls seem to be grimly aware of a fate much darker than they're willing to acknowledge. While seemingly a complete departure from the [Life After](https://www.goodreads.com/series/174731) canon, this peculiar short fixates on the unexplored depths of the series' most inscrutable tome, calling into question whether the ethical and moral quandaries of modern society are much different in the throes of an apocalypse…

Risking one's life to help a friend may be a noble endeavor, but what if taking action creates more problems than it solves? Safely secluded in a large apartment complex of an abandoned college town, a fractious group of ten students struggle with whether or not to rescue someone across campus. When the vote is complicated by both reasoned dispute and petty infighting, Jack O'Connor must strategize the forming of a coalition or risk endangering the group's future survival: if they can't make this simple decision together, how will they react when facing death? Is the cost of inaction more dangerous than an expedition through a town filled with zombies? Following the events of [Life After: The Arising](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25503193.LifeAfterTheArising "Life After: The Arising"), Life After: Zugzwang explores the group dynamic when Jeff's friends hundreds of miles away decide whether to find his brother Dave, giving startling insight to the characters he meets at the end of [Life After: The Void](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32149556.LifeAfterTheVoid "Life After: The Void") as it illuminates how complicated relationships are tested when people are forced to act in a time of crisis.

In times of crisis, few bear a burden more demanding than local law enforcement, but even as a zombie apocalypse wreaks untold havoc, the undead are the least of their troubles. Spread thin in the wake of a calamity, the remaining officers at the Broomall Police Department are faced with dwindling resources and manpower in a losing effort to contain the scourge. As state and government agencies fight to enforce a quarantine boundary prior to an impending evacuation, the station is mistakenly identified as a rescue center, forcing Lt. Arthur Gilchrist and a handful of cops to determine whether their new arrivals are trying to escape the mayhem or take advantage of it. Set during the events of [Life After: The Arising](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25503193.LifeAfterTheArising " Life After: The Arising"), Life After: The Line of Duty_ examines the fortitude required to protect and serve the public in an unthinkable circumstance as well as what it means to maintain order when chaos becomes the status quo.