Becoming

The Michaluk Virus is loose. In the heart of Atlanta, a virus has escaped the CDC and transformed most of the population of the southeastern US into homicidal cannibals. As society rapidly crumbles under the hordes of infected, three people-Ethan, a Memphis police officer; Cade, a former IDF sharpshooter; and Brandt, a lieutenant in the US Marines-band together against the oncoming crush of death and terror. As they hole up in a safe house in Mississippi, others join them in their bid for survival. When an attack of the infected forces them to flee, they encounter more danger than they bargained for. And one man's desperate search for answers in Memphis uncovers information that heralds a horrific possibility that there may be more to the virus than first suspected. Contains mature themes.

One year after the Michaluk Virus decimated the southeast, Ethan Bennett and his six companions have become as close as family while facing the trials of living in a drastically changed world. Then a mysterious woman arrives at their safe house in Alabama, pleading for assistance in Atlanta. Despite their suspicions that the woman is hiding important information, Ethan and his friends agree to help. But when they're suddenly forced to flee from the infected, the cohesion the group had cultivated is shattered. As members of the group succumb to the escalating dangers in their path, new alliances form, new loves develop, and old friendships crumble. In the face of unending horror, one man is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice to save his friends, while another reveals secrets that could hold the key to humanity's survival. Contains mature themes.

Brandt Evans is floundering. Saddled with leadership of their dysfunctional group, he finds himself dealing with problems he doesn't know how to handle: Remy is grief-stricken and suicidal, Gray is distant and reclusive, and Cade is near death. And things only get worse. When the past he's fought to keep secret from his friends catches up with him, the consequences are devastating. While he and Gray are on the hunt for supplies, a still-recovering Cade is kidnapped by a militant group of survivors. And on his return, he's told of a conspiracy involving test subjects, pathogens, and CDC doctors-a conspiracy that dances too close to the truth for comfort. Brandt's race to save Cade takes him back to the dangerous streets of Atlanta, where not all is as it seems. And with a horde of infected closing in and the rescue mission in jeopardy, he comes tantalizingly close to a cure that might save what's left of humanity from the ravages of the Michaluk Virus. Contains mature themes.

They've discovered a possible cure. Can Kimberly get it to safety before all is lost? Months after the traumatic events in Atlanta, Kimberly Gellar and her new friends have established Woodside, a walled-in community of survivors led by the best, brightest, and most heroic among them. And a CDC doctor with them has created a promising cure for the virus and tested it on the man Kimberly has begun to fall for, who promptly shows strange and concerning side effects. When Woodside is besieged by the infected, Kimberly smuggles the potential cure out of their safe haven before the infected can get in, intending to search for a still-operational CDC facility with only Ethan Bennett to guide and protect her. As the community collapses and the lives of her friends are threatened, can Kimberly get the cure to where it can do some good? And can she get help to Woodside before everyone she left behind ends up dead at the hands of the infected after nearly two years of survival? Contains mature themes.

Nothing about her world is as she believed it to be . . . When Woodside fell, Remy Angellette and her friends barely escaped with their lives and were left scrambling to find a new place to call home. But Brandt Evans is missing, taken by the very people he called for help. Remy is determined to find him, but she doesn't know where to start looking. And to make matters worse, she's dealing with strange side effects from the cure to the Michaluk Virus that could endanger them all. As Remy and her friends set out on a mission to find Brandt, she resolves to do everything in her power to locate him-or die trying. The search takes her back into the heart of Atlanta, into the very city where her life changed. And what she finds there are seeds of a betrayal she didn't expect and a world wholly different than what she and her friends believed it to be after the Michaluk Virus struck. With her world turned on its head and her infection symptoms getting worse, Remy finds herself dealing with the biggest challenge of her life . . . and she has no idea if she's going to survive it. Contains mature themes.

She lost everything because of the virus. Now she stands to lose even more. It's been two months since Sadie O'Dell and her friends discovered the existence of the Wall and took over the Eden Facility, and two months since she and Kimberly Gellar followed Ethan Bennett south to track down and evacuate survivors, and Sadie has finally begun to find some measure of happiness and family after the loss of her brother. But her little family's routine is shattered after they rescue a lone survivor outside of the Demopolis community in Alabama. A fellow survivor and acquaintance from Sadie's past, Dez Ikeda, reveals a potentially devastating discovery he's made, one that the leadership of the community is trying to keep under wraps. Ethan starts experiencing new, alarming side effects from his infection, ones that could upend everything they thought they knew about the virus. And an attack on Demopolis reveals an unexpected threat closing in on them, one determined to accomplish its goals by any means necessary. Contains mature themes.