

The first book in the As the World Dies trilogy, The First Days also won the Dead Letter Award and was named one of the Best Zombie Books of the Decade by the Harrisburg Book Examiner. Rhiannon Frater's Fighting to Survive won the Dead Letter Award for Best Novel from Mail Order Zombie. Now the hard work of survival begins-finding enough food creating safe, weather-resistant shelter establishing laws and fighting off both the undead who want to eat them and the living bandits who want to rob and kill them.

Picking up where "The First Days" ends, "Fighting to Survive" continues the As the World Dies series and features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them.Picking up where The First Days ends, Fighting to Survive features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them.Ī hundred or so survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled off center of a small Texas town.

The first attacks are minor, but everyone knows there is worse to come.Īnd beyond the fort's walls, the zombies shamble, moaning, eyes fastened hungrily upon the living. The fort's search and rescue teams have attracted unwanted attention from bandits who see the fort as competition for food. Gazing out over the beauty of the surrounding Texas countryside, it's hard to believe that death and danger lurk around every corner. As the sun sets, the people of Ashley Oaks gather in the hotel's rooftop ballroom and gazebo to celebrate their survival.

The leaders of the survivors-Katie, Jenni, Juan, Travis, and Nerit-decide it's time for an assault on the zombie-occupied hotel that looms over the town square.Ī pitched battle in the banquet room is the start of a harrowing, room-by-room struggle from Reception to roof. Winter is coming soon it will be too cold to live in tents and other makeshift shelters. The fort has grown crowded as survivors of the zombie apocalypse have found safety between its walls.
