He'd been hiding for years, learning to forget, resisting the temptation within. Trying so hard to restrain himself from the real monster that has been hiding in me for years, until one day. The monster finally wins.

Jayden Everett, the kid, would never be seen without a smile on his face. Everyone who knew him called him "The Optimist". Jayden Everett is not a kid anymore. At 19, he witnessed his mother's brutal murder. At 19, he saw things he could never un-see. At 19, he watched his brother wipe the blood from the blade with a sneer. And now, at 22, Jayden is out for revenge.

Shannon is sixteen and a zombie "fanatic", as are many of her friends, so it's no wonder that she's fully prepared when a large-scale zombie invasion begins. Her brother is also in the air force and flies helicopters, so she has him to come help them out. However, when her brother can't get away from his base and Shannon and her friends are stranded in the middle of a zombie infested town, soon they discover that there's a big difference between knowing how to survive a zombie apocalypse, and actually being able to do it.