Afterworld #1
Karice Bolton
New Adult Post-Apocalyptic
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Scientists are the new rock stars. The infection has been contained for nearly three months, and the world is celebrating. But humans are still dying. Rebekah Taylor has seen it firsthand. Her husband was killed right in front of her by the very creatures that humans were told they no longer had to fear.
Rebekah is determined to find out who is responsible for the death of her husband and the obvious cover-up. Fueled with revenge, she begins to find answers that lead to one frightening conclusion. The apocalypse might be over, but the battles are just beginning.
Excerpt
“We can’t run. They’d totally get us before we got away,” I
said, hoping he’d correct me, tell me that we had a chance.
He didn’t.
He slammed his fist into the steering wheel and looked over
at me. When the outbreak happened, we never looked back. We were always on the
move, running from the disease that took our families and friends. That was the
key to survival. Never stay in one place. Always stay on the move. Now we had
nowhere to move. I glanced over at Gavin and saw the fear in his eyes. Even
with everything we’d encountered, his eyes had never held this amount of
terror.
“Babe, whatever happens…”
“Knock it off,” I said.
“We have nothing to fight them with, and a horde this size
needs a distraction.”
“Don’t you dare,” I hissed, shaking my head. The fear was
pulsing through me at an unstoppable rate. “We didn’t live through the outbreak
to die now.”
I gritted my teeth, grabbed the civilian anti-zombie kit from
under my seat, unzipped it, and looked for anything inside that might help. We
were instructed to drop these kits off at government collection stations. I was
grateful we never got around to it.
Gavin held down the ignition and reverse buttons at the same
time in a vain attempt to override the safety sensors.
“Damn it,” he muttered.
“Try rebooting the car. Turn it off and take the key out.
Give it a few seconds and slip the key back in. Maybe if you pop it in reverse
before the car can sense the zombies, it’ll let us reverse,” I directed.
He nodded, biting his lip, and turned off the engine allowing
the moans of the horde outside to be heard. I took a deep breath and looked out
my window that was now completely blocked by tattered shirts and non-oozing
wounds pressed against the glass. It would only be a matter of time before they
began to break through the glass. The moans turned into a chorus of humming.
“One-Mississippi-two…” Gavin’s words wrapped around me.
I prayed silently to the same God I’d prayed to many nights
before. He listened then and I hoped he’d listen now.
I grabbed two knives that were in the kit and flipped the
blades open, locking them in place. The anodized orange handles were larger
than the actual blades. Not comforting. I handed one to Gavin.
“There’s still a Louisville Slugger on the floor behind us,”
Gavin said. His brown hair was cut short. That was one of the first things he
did after we were vaccinated. A haircut and a shave to celebrate our survival.
He still looked young but not as young as we both did before the outbreak.
I slid toward the center console, crawling as far from the
passenger window as I could get. Gavin’s breathing was heavy, and I felt the
heat rolling off him as he continued to struggle with what we were facing.
I dug around in the bottom of the bag for the zombie
deterrent. My hand clasped around the ADD, also known as the Audible
Distraction Device, and I dropped the kit to the floor.
The car rocked back and forth as the number of beasts grew on
both sides, creating a trance-like rhythm that was terrifying.
“Grab the bat,” Gavin instructed, his voice low.
Guest Post by Karice Bolton
Thank you so much for allowing me to stop by to talk about
Zombie movies and my latest book, RecruitZ!
I think zombies are so much fun to watch on the big (and
little) screen, and something that I really enjoy is humor paired with the
creatures that are threatening to rip us to shreds! So on that note, my list of
favorite zombie movies starts off with a few of the funny ones first! But I
also love the more serious take on zombies, and the scared out of our mind type
of outbreak that keeps us on the run! I guess I’m just a zombie movie addict!
So here’s my list of favorite zombie flicks…
Shaun of the Dead
Zombieland
World War Z
Resident Evil
Warm Bodies
Night of the Living Dead
Okay, so now that you’ve heard what some of my favorite
zombie movies are, I wanted to touch on my first zombie book that I’ve
written—except that it’s not! I actually never thought I’d write a zombie book,
but almost two years ago an idea popped into my head that I just had to work
with.
I’d like to think that we would come up with a vaccine and
slay the zombies before we all perished if a real life outbreak were to occur… (I’m
generally a glass is half-full kind of girl) So that is where RecruitZ begins—after
the outbreak. Only things aren’t as they appear and lives are still being
taken. I get to delve into the world of conspiracies, criminal threats, and all
sorts of fun things in the Afterworld Series, and I’ve loved every minute of
it. Hope you can check out the first in the series, RecruitZ and thanks again
for having me.
About the Author
Karice
Bolton lives in the Pacific Northwest and is a writer of Young Adult and
New Adult books. She loves to read anything and everything. She also
enjoys baking, skiing, and spending time with her wonderful husband and
two English bulldogs.Books currently available:
*Beyond Love Series: Beyond Control (Book 1) Beyond Doubt (Book 2) Beyond Reason (Book 3) – Feb. 28th
*Afterworld Series: RecruitZ (Book 1)
*The Witch Avenue Series: Lonely Souls (Book 1), Altered Souls (Book 2), Released Souls (Book 3) Shattered Souls (Book 4)
*The Watchers Trilogy: Awakening (Book 1), Legions (Book 2), Cataclysm (Book 3), Taken Novella (Watchers Prequel)
*The Camp
Karice would love if you stopped by her blog or FB page to find out the latest news on giveaways and upcoming releases, or you can just send her an email. She loves hearing from her readers and responds as soon as she can.
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