They planned their trip for two years. Freedom. Fun. Travel. Too bad their summer never ended. Pain. Terror. Run. <><><><> Ali Cartwright, along with her best friend Macy, spent the last two years of high school planning their trip of a lifetime. Their dream was to escape their small American town, and travel Europe, partying all night, visiting amazing places, and maybe meeting a few cute guys. But when they wake up in their cozy little French apartment to screams of terror, loud sirens, and threats of an international invasion, they can only do one thing in the hopes of surviving. They run.

Sixteen-year-old Jane wakes up to a desperate text from her best friend¬¬¬-the dead are walking around outside her window. Jane's parents are in New York for the weekend, and Jane is completely alone. After a gruesome personal tragedy, Abby rescues Jane, and the girls flee the town they grew up in, hoping to find a place unaffected by the dead. Abby's family lake house seems like the only choice, but their beacon of hope is three States away, separated by a sea of reanimated death. Reaching it will be anything but easy. Being head cheerleader doesn't exactly prepare you for life during the apocalypse, and it's a dangerous learning curve.

The world as humanity knew it was gone. In its place was a radioactive wasteland, scorched by nuclear furnaces. The third millenium passed unmarked and uncelebrated by those in the safezones. The rich took to the oceans, and to the skies, leaving everyone else behind. Stranded in the isolated "safe zones", with no knowledge of the worlds above their heads. Igor Jonovich changed everything. Nanotechnology, long thought to be impossible, flourished under his genius. Even as the walls of their radioactive cage closed in, humanity pushed back, harnessing Jonovich's creations to explore the radioactive wastelands. To challenge the twisted creatures that lurked in the ashes of their former glory. Humanity thought they, at least, knew this scarred earth. It turns out even that was a lie. Yesterday Jared found a message hidden within Professor Jonovich's greatest work that changed everything.

in which a silly boy named Niall attempts to ask a girl he adores on a date through cheesy pickup lines.