What becomes of the forgotten american west

A sprawling sci-fi epic disguised as a zombie novel.

Dr. Samuel Chase is just a guy trying to get back to his family in New York during the zombie apocalypse. After leading a group of survivors down I-95, he finds himself retro-fitting rockets with time travel devices in Cape Canaveral and wondering how it ever got this far.

Dr. Rebecca Pratt has a secret. She might be the only person in the world who knows how this all started and the whereabouts of patient zero.

Captain Atticus Roth is the most capable pilot in the United States Airforce and solely responsible for keeping the doctors alive throughout the zombie apocalypse.

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