LOGINFor ten years, Seraphina Ashford fought through the zombie apocalypse, sacrificing everything to protect the people she loved. In the end, the reward for her loyalty was betrayal. Her husband pushed her into a zombie den. Her best friend stood beside him, smiling. Her mother-in-law watched without remorse. As thousands of zombies closed in, Seraphina wrapped her arms around her unborn child and made one final wish. "If there's a second life... I'll never trust you again. I'll save my parents. And I'll make every one of you pay." When she opens her eyes, she's no longer dying. She's back in her college dorm—three years before the apocalypse. This time, she isn't the naïve girl blinded by love. She's armed with memories of the future... and the mysterious Apocalypse Survival System. Every choice she makes changes fate. Every mission brings her closer to the truth. Every act of revenge makes her stronger. But as the apocalypse draws near, Seraphina discovers that her husband and best friend were never the true enemy. Someone far more dangerous has been orchestrating humanity's downfall from the shadows. And the only person who may be able to help her save the world... ...is the man destined to become the feared zombie king. In this life, revenge is only the beginning. This time, the Apocalypse Queen refuses to lose.
View MoreJulian's voice on the radio had gone hoarse by the time Sera finally ended the call, the argument stretched thin over an hour of back and forth that hadn't moved either of them an inch."You're walking into the one place I've spent seven years trying to get inside of," he'd said, "and you're doing it with an invitation instead of a plan. Sera, I've lost enough. I can't sit here and lose you to the same place that took her.""I'm not walking in blind. I have everything you sent. I have Marcus's contingencies. I have—" She'd hesitated, glancing at where Lucien stood near the doorway of the communications room, arms crossed, saying nothing, the way he said nothing about most things. "I have more than you know.""That's not the same as safe.""Nothing's safe anymore, Julian. I'm going because it's the only door he's opened. If I don't walk through it, I lose whatever chance we have of understanding what he actually did to Elise, to the others, to whatever's happening with the infected now
The overhaul took three days, and by the end of it, Sera had reduced the number of people with access to full supply routes down to five: herself, Marcus, Priya, Wen, and, after a long conversation neither of them enjoyed, Grace, whose knowledge of the old network made her more valuable inside the circle of trust than outside it now.Everyone else got pieces. A gate guard knew when a run was leaving, not where. A supply team knew the destination, not the timing until an hour before departure. Nothing whole reached any single person who didn't already sit inside the five names Sera had chosen, and even among those five, certain details stayed with her and Marcus alone."It's going to slow us down," Marcus said, reviewing the new structure with her in the briefing room, the lantern between them throwing long shadows across the maps. "More approvals, more relay points. We lose efficiency.""We lose efficiency. We don't lose people." She tapped the map where the last ambush had happened.
Grace's list took most of the night to work through, and by the time they finished, Sera had a much clearer picture of the last several months than she wanted to have.Most of what Grace had passed along really had been scraps—old schedules, outdated headcounts, the kind of information that would have been dangerous months ago and was mostly useless now that the compound had grown and shifted so much. But two items on the list made Sera's stomach drop. A supply route, given three days before the first ambush. A second route, given the week before the last one."I didn't know they'd use it like that," Grace said, her voice hollow. "I thought—I told myself it was just for information, that they were watching, not planning anything. I know how stupid that sounds now.""It doesn't sound stupid. It sounds like what people tell themselves when the alternative is admitting they're afraid." Sera set the list down, rubbing her eyes. "But it means the leak isn't just you. Someone else confirmed
The third ambush was the one that finally made it undeniable.Two supply runs had gone bad in the space of a month—not catastrophically, nothing they couldn't recover from, but bad enough that Marcus had started pacing the briefing room in a way Sera had never seen from him before, the kind of pacing that belonged to a man running the same math over and over hoping for a different answer."Same pattern both times," he said, spreading the two route maps side by side on the table. "Ambush point roughly a mile past the second checkpoint. Both times they knew exactly where we'd be and roughly when. That's not luck, Sera. That's not raiders getting clever. Somebody told them."She'd known it before he said it out loud, had known it the moment the second run came back short two crates and one very shaken teenager who'd taken a graze along his arm that Wen was still keeping an eye on. She just hadn't wanted to know it, which wasn't the same thing."Who had the route," she asked, already drea
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