A secret US government research project codenamed Lazarus. A small group of world-renowned scientists sponsored by big pharma. A single goal: developing a formula to reverse death. Instead, they fabricated the end of the world: a third state between life and death. Only one of them remains to undo it – Dr. Milton Hayes. At least, if he can survive on the road from D.C. to Atlanta. On his journey through the post-apocalyptic Southeast, Milton encounters both the living dead – and survivors who might be willing to help. Like Dax O’Hara and his sister Kim, whose neglectful, conspiracy-obsessed father taught them one main skill: survival at any cost. But in a world where death is not the end, survival is only the beginning… [The Third State – Project Lazarus is the first part in The Third State trilogy, a post-apocalyptic zombie horror series with queer romance subplots in the later installments.]