Prologue

     March 31st, 2008 was the day the Earth went to hell.  Not sure if anyone is still alive who knows how it all began, but on that day the dead rose.  At first everyone thought it was something out of a horror movie, or some crazy prank, being that April Fool's Day was right around the corner.  Then we realized too late that it was all a nightmare come to life.

     My name is Bethany Caine, and I'm a survivor.  On that fateful day I was working in a high rise office building in downtown New Orleans.  It didn't take long for the city to be overrun.  The news reported that monsters roamed the streets, and the police were fighting to get control.  Only there was no hope for them.  How can you fight the dead?

     Before becoming an advertising executive I had trained in the Navy, but not everyone had any survival training.  As the offices were stormed by them I managed to get six of us out to safety.  Not that anywhere was safe.  We made it out of the city, at least four of us did.  No matter how hard we tried to avoid them, they always seemed to appear. 

     We met up with another group of people, as we made it across the causeway.  There were twelve of us that left to find a place to hide.  Our only hope was to barricade ourselves in somewhere and help each other survive.  The others looked to me for guideance and support, but there was another that I would soon come to trust.  Darryl Jeryck was a detective who had gathered the others we had met, and he would help me lead the survivors.   The only thing left was to wait for the dead to come to us.