It was the start of another ordinary day at the office for Max, he was emailing a friend when one of his other early morning co-workers called for his help, someone was having a heart attack. Rushing to the aid of his fallen co-worker Max knew one thing, it wasn't a heart attack. Heart attack victims didn't bleed and didn't start chewing on anyone they could catch either.

The suburbs of Denver were no place to stay during a zombie outbreak, even worse the nuclear fallout was making the place downright uninhabitable. Max and his companions needed to get out of town fast, before they joined the ranks of the living dead or the just good old fashioned dead. This is book two in the Zombie Chronicles Trilogy, not a stand alone novel.

Max barely made it out of Chicago alive and was looking forward to a long recovery in Iowa with his kids. Picked up by Colonel Draper he expected a quick return to his friend Bill’s home and chance to catch his breath. It is not to be, however, and he is compelled to use his abilities to go on one last mission; to find the Zombie-master, the man responsible for creating the outbreak. Pressed into service alongside his friends, Max heads out to beard the lion in his den and finish the fight once and for all.

Nick is all alone, a situation he has no one to blame for but himself. Six years ago his father had left him and his sister, vowing to return to them…and he never had. But Bill had; remote and sullen at losing his best friend, Bill made little effort to raise his best friend's son, isolating himself with his new job: Being a soldier. Unhappy and left to his own devices Nick found himself in trouble at 16 and the lifetime exemption from the draft for his father’s sacrifice was all too quickly shattered in a world where jail time equated to serving time on the front lines in a prison company. However, larger things are at play; things set in motion that will shake the foundation of the world for a second time in less than a decade and it all begins with Nick.

Life in Southern Florida three years after the zombie Outbreak isn’t anything like it used to be. A few survivors were pushed by the hordes of zombies out into the Florida Keys and have survived so far by fending off all opponents whether they were super zombies, Cuban's or even other humans enhanced in the long struggle with the undead. Now Elina and her friend Gus are thrown into the thick of the Miami conflict as the living there are caught between two armies vying for control of the peninsula. This book is set in the Zombie Chronicles Universe, it takes place approximately 3 years after the events in The Zombie Chronicles 3: Ascension and is best read after finishing that book. The characters in Cayo Elina are new to the series and will appear again, mostly likely in a second book of their own and also in TZC5. Cayo Elina is 114 thousand words long and is a full length novel.