After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

They say that you are never more than a few yards away from a spider. 19 year old American Jenna Dawes will soon find out how true that is...and so will you... After Jenna loses everything - her parents and the only home she's ever known, leaving her with no family, no money, no education, and nowhere to go, she's mysteriously offered a live-in position halfway around the world...in Moldova of all places. She reluctantly accepts the position, not having much of a choice, from the peculiar Nikolai Rykov, whom she's only had contact with via email. Will this be her saving grace, or will she wind up with her heart tangled in a web that she cannot get out of, let alone survive? 🕸 *Arachnologist Norman Platnick once wrote, "Wherever you sit as you read these lines, a spider is probably no more than a few yards away." 🕷 Rated #1 in Spider and #1 in Explicit by Wattpad 🥈2nd Place Paranormal Winner of The Cleaved Awards