All thats keeping Riley from the man hes falling in love with are the ruins of a city filled with half a million dead cannibals.Strangers, Riley and Graham sheltered together in a basement storage unit when the zombie outbreak slammed into the world three months ago. They lived through the first blast of the plague, but they may not last much longer among survivors scrambling for dwindling resources. They agree to hike from the city and to the safety of the mountains. They didnt count on the storm they hoped would cover their exit developing into a Noreaster, though, and they sure didnt think their visibility would shrink so badly that theyd hike into the leading edge of a zombie swarm, either. In the chaos of escaping the ravenous horde, they are separated, with Graham racing toward feral dog packs to the east and Riley sprinting to hostile survivors hunting them to the west.Nobody said finding and keeping a quality guy (alive) during the apocalypse would be easy.26,782 words
