When Maya and Grace wake up for work it's a normal day. They didn't expect it to be any different than a usual work day. Boy were they wrong. On arriving at work they find a bloody mess and begin realizing that people are turning into unstable killing machines. Their friend Jon rescues them before they are hurt but they are all horrified as an epidemic unfolds within the perimeter of the campus. How will they survive and what will happen to them and the people they love if anyone can be turned into a mindless killing machine? How will they escape? Who will lead them in these rising times of peril? What will they face, who will they lose, and how will they keep each other alive? And by alive, they mean alive and themselves. Not moving and killing. Follow along as this rag tag group of teens survive an apocalyptic world that gets worse by the moment. For any who started "Presences", I decided to combine it with "When August Ends" instead of doing two separate books so it is now a part of this single novel.

When Alice Reed awakens from her coma, she's met with nothing. Literally. She wakes up in a house she doesn't remember is hers. Her family? Whoever they are, they're gone now. She has no memory of anything in her past after a fatal accident. Clueless, she wanders the unfamiliar city where she finds old friends whom she does not recognize. Not only friends, but the dead, who roam the streets after a virus spread through the country, killing over half of the worlds population. The virus and the dead continue to kill. Can Alice and the group of survivors survive? And will Alice ever get the chance to meet her family, or will it be too late?

Alice Reed has regained most of her memory, along with her family. But something is changing within not only the infected, but people she knows. Can Alice and the group continue to get along and survive through the changes and the upcoming winter? Or will everything finally take its toll?