Blood and Picket Fences

Karoline Kraus thought the summer of her 18th birthday would be pretty close to perfect, a time for her to finally uncover her family's past and get in a significant amount of travel. What's not for a girl to love? Daughter to a famous author Karoline is used to a well-placed twist, just not in her real life. So when the dead begin to rise and it is painfully clear life will never be the same, Karoline is left with the daunting task of staying alive in a world that seems determined to want her dead.

When Grayson Kessler learned that his best friend and long-time crush Karoline Kraus was going to be finding her roots in Germany he wrote his summer off as a bust. Expecting to spend it hiding at the library with fellow book enthusiast Tansy O'Brien. The last thing he was expecting was an urgent call from his mother at Nicklaus Children's Hospital telling him the dead are rising up in the streets. Not that it mattered, all he had to do was look out the window to see he was right.

Aided by Gray's Rabbi father and a ragtag team of teen outcasts, the group must set out on a dauntless journey of self-discovery as they face the dead and the harsh reality of this new world in a desperate attempt to reach the safety of the Coral Cove High School Safe Zone.

*Under Construction, changing it to first person soon to go along with the others in the series*