It wasn't like it happened slowly, just slow enough to go unnoticed. When the world began to realize something was wrong, it was already too late. The disease had spread quickly to all those who had been unfortunate enough to come across it. The day of panic is a day I relive over and over in my head; the day the diseased began to burn the city. The government tried to help at first, gathering the living and placing them in canteens to be checked and accepted into the sanctuary. Eventually, the diseased infiltrated the canteens, infecting more and more innocent people. After awhile, the government shut down the canteens, leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves. We are the living, the ones who remain uninfected. We fight for survival in hope that the next day will be better. We call the infected, the Risen. The events that happened are known to some as the plagues, but most of us survivors have one name for the period of infection; The Rise.

In one day, the world succumbed to a pestilence that decimated the living. In its place rose a new species: vicious, gruesome, wandering zombies with an insatiable hunger for the living. Still in her twenties, Cash has watched her friends die, only to walk again. An office worker with few survival skills, she joins up with Clutch, a grizzled Army veteran with PTSD. Together, they flee the city and struggle through the nine circles of hell, with nothing but Clutch's military experience and Cash's determination to live. As they fight to survive in the zombie inferno, they quickly discover that nowhere is safe from the undead...or the living. (100 Days in Deadland is a journey through the first poem in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, the classic tale on the horrors of hell... zombie apocalypse style!) (Note: This is a draft so please excuse any errors. The finished novel is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook).

Can a natural killer learn to be human again? Regan's unique talent for murder makes her a perfect assassin. After a lethal encounter leaves her broken body washed up on a beach, she finds herself adopted by a group of teenage bodyguards. She doesn't intend to stay for long, but soon Regan finds herself faced with a choice: become a hero or stay a villain? *** The boy played with the flat brim of the cap in his hands and looked around the room. He sat back in his chair, trying to look casual, but the heel of his hi-top sneaker drummed rapidly on the concrete floor. Regan sat opposite him with her legs crossed and her hands folded on her tartan skirt. She watched him without a word and brushed a strand of blue-dyed hair behind her ear. Somehow this seemed to unsettle him more. 'Calm down,' she said. 'It's just murder.' *** Author's Note: Darkness Girl: Trickster God is represented by Louise Fury from The Bent Agency. P.S. The epic cover was made by Paul Kopetko (you can stalk him at paulkopetko.com). Enjoy!

Asami Death has just been transferred to the DWMA from her mother's school because she was unable to find a compatible partner. Her mother was hoping that Lord Death would be able to help Asami with this problem. So far, Asami has met many students and doesn't believe that anything good is going to come of this stay at the DWMA.