THE FIRST NIGHT The dead are walking. The world is ending. And Maya Reed has absolutely no idea how to survive it. Maya Reed's life was ordinary. Until people started dying. At first, it is just scattered reports-violent attacks, unexplained deaths, emergency rooms overflowing with patients. Then the dead begin getting back up. Within hours, cities descend into chaos. There are no warnings. No rescue. No one coming to save them. Maya finds herself running for her life alongside a handful of strangers and people she never expected to see again. Together, they fight their way through streets filled with the infected, abandoned buildings, burning neighbourhoods and desperate survivors who will do anything for food, water and shelter. But surviving the dead is only the beginning. Because hunger changes people. Fear changes people. And when there is no law left to stop them, some survivors discover exactly how far they're willing to go. Maya will learn to fight. She'll learn who she can trust. She'll fall in love. She'll lose people she never thought she could live without. And she'll discover that sometimes the hardest decision isn't who to save. It's deciding who you're willing to leave behind. There are no heroes here. No chosen ones. No special abilities. Just ordinary people trying desperately to survive the end of everything they ever knew. The first night was only the beginning.