To fans of The Walking Dead: this novel is a reimagining set in a parallel world
“Dad, this time we’ll definitely survive.”
Carl opens his eyes in a pool of blood and realizes he has returned to the day before a walker bit through his throat.
In his previous life, his death turned his father Rick into a tyrant, while his sister Judith gnawed on tree bark during a famine. Reborn, the boy grips his sheriff's badge, the keepsake that should have been buried with him, and vows to rip apart the apocalypse's script with his memories of the future.
He turns an air-raid shelter into a fortress of eternal night, generates electricity from walker corpses, and transforms his sister's slingshot into a deadly weapon capable of detonating a methane field.
But the force that corrects fate follows him like a shadow:
His “prediction” of Eugene's betrayal makes his father wonder whether the virus has infected his son.
Judith's newly awakened ability to speak with the dead is dragging her toward an inhuman abyss.
And the Holy Flame Church's prayer, playing on repeat over the radio, is exactly like the tolling of the death knell Carl heard before he died in his previous life...
When a blood-red aurora blankets the sky, Carl discovers that being reborn was no gift.
It is the final Hunger Games, designed by the gods to destroy humanity.
