Six years after a failed cure - for a terrifying disease - destroyed civilization, Yero Mercer is captured and thrown into The Crucible - a brutal arena where the Continuum forces "criminals" to fight monstrous creatures called Variants. But when the creatures refuse to harm him, Yero becomes the center of something far more dangerous than survival. Because beneath the violence and propaganda, the monsters seem to remember what they once were. And somehow... They remember him, too.

Darcy's life was finally getting good. She felt like personally thanking the universe for her luck, really. The 18 year old had just been chosen for the lead role in her school's upcoming musical. Not only that, but the coolest and hottest guy had also asked her out on a date. She was over the moon. But it seemed like the universe had other messed up ideas. Darcy's life spirals out of control when she wakes up five years later in bed, with a swollen belly, her date next to her and chaos outside. Everyone alive seemed to have jumped through time to a dystopian zombie era. Now Darcy has to survive a menacing zombie apocalypse while trying to raise an unexpected baby. What could go wrong?