The Guy at the Gate

The world ended not with a bang, but with a chilling silence, leaving former businessman Ethan Cole to forge his own kingdom, Raven Creek, a fortress against the dead. But his reign of absolute control is shattered when a ghost from his past, Thomas Reed—a man Ethan ruined and believed long dead—appears at the gate, bringing with him a horde of the reanimated. As the knocking intensifies and the faces of the dead multiply, Ethan's carefully constructed sanctuary begins to crumble, exposing his dark secrets to the very people he rules. With the living questioning his authority and the dead demanding retribution, can Ethan survive the reckoning knocking at his door, or will his past sins finally consume him and his entire settlement?

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