Second Dead

Sometimes, dead just isn’t dead enough. Souls deprived of the good death seek out 17-year-old Annabel Wallis to fulfill the living’s duty to the deceased and help them move on.

Annabel’s dad has a plan. He leads his family and friends on a daring escape from the city to the sanctuary of their farm. The group battles their way through the remnants of civilization, fighting zombies, other survivors, and nature. However, they face more than external dangers.

Annabel’s mom has a secret, and an antidote, sans one important measurement. Annabel doesn’t know it, but her nightmares hold the key to deciphering the medicine’s “wanting measure.”

Annabel must complete the remedy if the infected are to have any chance of survival. But to do that she must stay alive. Worse still, Anna discovers that death is not the exit it once was. The deceased are experiencing their own apocalypse. Annabel’s dead Vietnamese grandmother, revealed as a member of the mysterious Sisterhood of the Xích Quý, provides guidance from beyond. Annabel must reopen the path to the afterlife before they all become second dead.