(Edit in Progress) Book One: When the dead begin rising across the kingdom, General Zane Miller fights to survive in a collapsing medieval world consumed by infection, war, and fear. Alongside Kaelen, Arlen, and a young girl named Lina, Zane helps build the Coalition - a growing resistance against both the infected and the terrifying truths hidden behind the apocalypse. But beneath the capital, Zane uncovers a horrifying secret: The Crown itself engineered the outbreak. As new mutations emerge and intelligent infected beings begin appearing, humanity realizes the monsters are evolving into something far worse than mindless undead. Then, they discover the impossible: Entire cities of the infected are organizing under a single ruler. And humanity's war has only just begun.