Echoes of a Dying World
BLURB Hayley Reid died with nothing but regret. Ten years into the zombie apocalypse, alone in the ruins of what used to be her family's estate, she took her last breath. No....
BLURB Hayley Reid died with nothing but regret. Ten years into the zombie apocalypse, alone in the ruins of what used to be her family's estate, she took her last breath. No food. No allies. No hope. The people she'd sacrificed everything to protect had left her to rot the moment resources ran thin. Her own blood had betrayed her when she needed them most. But death wasn't the end. Hayley wakes up in her old bedroom, two weeks before the world ends. The calendar reads June 3rd—fourteen days before the outbreak that will turn 70% of humanity into mindless flesh-eaters. Her hands are unscarred. Her body is soft, untrained. But her mind? Her mind carries a decade of brutal survival knowledge that no one else possesses. This time, she won't be the fool who shares her supplies. This time, she won't trust family who see her as a convenient sacrifice. This time, Hayley Reid will be the last one standing—and she'll make sure those who abandoned her understand exactly what they lost. Armed with foreknowledge of every major outbreak zone, every resource cache, and every mistake she made the first time around, Hayley begins her preparation. She liquidates assets her family doesn't know she controls. She stockpiles food, weapons, and medical supplies in a secret location. She trains her body for the hell that's coming. And she watches—cold and calculating—as her oblivious family continues their petty power plays, unaware that their golden ticket to survival is already written out of the will. When the dead rise and civilization crumbles, Hayley's compound stands like a fortress while the world burns. Her family comes crawling, desperate and starving, begging for the mercy she once offered freely. She remembers every insult. Every theft. Every time they chose themselves over her. This time, the door stays locked. But survival in the apocalypse is never simple. Hayley's knowledge is powerful, but the timeline is already shifting in unexpected ways. Mutations she never saw before. Survivors who died in the first timeline now living. And a nagging question that keeps her awake at night: If she changed her fate... what else did she change? In a world where the dead walk and the living are worse, Hayley Reid will do whatever it takes to ensure she never suffers again—even if it means becoming the monster her family always feared.