Amanda is a ten year old girl who has just learned that monsters are much more real than she ever imagined. Not only are they real, but these undead, flesh-eating creatures seem to be taking over all the adults of her tiny town like a viral pandemic. With the help of her new-found friend, the young adult Ellie (who is mysteriously unaffected by the zombie curse—at least, for now), Amanda makes her way across her tiny town to her little brother and a mismatched band of children all looking to her for guidance. Only, Amanda is only a child herself; and there are dozens of these creatures after them at every turn. And Amanda just wants her mommy. This is a paraquel to Blind Hunger, by Araminta Star Matthews. At the end of Blind Hunger, we find the child survivors of the zombie apocalypse in a small New England town rushing toward a mysterious grocery-store warehouse three hundred miles away to meet Amanda. This is the story of the warehouse—and perhaps what awaits the Blind Hunger survivors once they finally arrive. If they arrive, that is.
