“A fast read filled with action, detail, intrigue, and zombies. Don’t let the name fool you: the Yard Gnomes are as serious as a zombie attack in the dark.” Five weeks after the end of Payload the newly-formed YGAT Corporation (Slogan: you want it, y’gat it) is in the field salvaging goods, battling the infected, and rescuing the living. The surviving Gnomes and a new crop of recruits find themselves as test subjects for the DSR’s new deployment concept, on the trail of a FASA VIP, and the targets of terrorists and zombies alike. Dyson’s fiancé is stranded halfway across the ...

Grog is a brute (half Human, half Ukar) slave raised from birth to fight in the pits for the entertainment of the crowds. He is content with his role in the city, proud of his barracks, and in awe of his owner, the sour Master Horne. Life, by Grog's reckoning, is good. Then an enigmatic churchwoman enters his life, and Grog finds himself swept from the city which has been his entire world, to travel and learn amid as strange a group as he has ever seen. He knows nothing of the group's mission, just that his skills are necessary and the quest is "a good thing."

"A smooth, clean read that takes the reader from normalcy to a full-blown zombie apocalypse with understated drama...fans of The Walking Dead take note: this one's for you." Trapped inside a government cordon with a city's worth of zombies lusting for his flesh, Martin must survive, locate his estranged family, and deal with a stranger who claims to be an academic who knows a secret behind the outbreak. The Zone is the story of Martin D’Erin, a medically retired Texas police officer struggling with loss and isolation who is caught up in a plague that turns a major city into a zombie ...

Provine Sael and her battered band have reached winter quarters; part one of recounts the adventures of Grog and his comrades over their long-anticipated rest, while part two sees the group heading east to investigate troubling events of the past summer and fall. Meanwhile, Molleen lurks in the shadows, clearly determined to accomplish the bloody goal that had been denied her in the fall. Grog and Burk must face new developments in their lives as they complete their first year of freedom, and continue to shoulder the responsibility of upholding the good name of their barracks, and meeting ...

Decades after the modern world came crashing down into ruins a tiny community lives in complete isolation aboard a beached cruise ship they call the Anvil. Governed by the Master, they go about their day to day lives happily enough, content with ignoring the outside world and being ignored in return. Until the Master falls desperately ill. As if emerging from a fog the People begin to question their own lack of history, the strange composition of their community, and to wonder as to the nature of the outside world. Left to their own devices they struggle to make sense of their situation, to...

“A serious novel with a strange series name, Payload is a fast-moving, quick-reading story of a band of unlikely heroes brought together by chance in the face of a terrorist-bred Zombie outbreak. It’s the Walking Dead with satellite phones.” In a United States beset by terrorists and a biowar virus a small group thrown together by chance find themselves in possession of what well may be a key to the zombie plague. Their desperate struggle across the landscape of a nation facing the first savage blows of a terror campaign and a zombie outbreak requires everything they can muster, and ...

“The Walking Dead meets the Wild Bunch: fast, smooth, and profound. Sunstone delivers a new twist in the zombie genre." The Apoc Review. It is 1912, and Mexico is a sea of revolutionary chaos. Three Pinkerton agents ride into the hinterlands of revolution-torn Mexico on the trail of a wanted man, but what they find is far worse than war. In the depths of a conflict tearing the fabric of a nation apart the dead walk and men plot to call forth the deadly arts of a nearly-forgotten era. Caught up in the machinations of a madman a small band must risk everything in the face of implacable evil...

“A series that is a single epic tapestry cut into manageable pieces…the threads of events and characters emerge as if they had actually lived, and few events occur without becoming a part of the sprawling whole. This is more than a story of swords and magic, it is the charting of lives. It isn’t Game of Thrones, but it makes a very credible effort.” The Fantasy Group It is the spring following the events in Dark Path, and the Phantom Badgers have a contract for the campaign season and a plan for the future, but all is not as rosy as it might seem. Larger events are unfurling across ...

"A compelling new series...a band of unlikely heroes whose struggles within a fantastic and grim world are both dynamic and engrossing. These are not epic lords on world-saving quests, but rather are 'ordinary' folk trying to stay one step ahead of life's tribulations. A poor man's Game of Thrones." Dark Obligations is a comprehensive tale of deadly intrigue, graphic violence, and fragile courage set in a grim fantasy world that is both familiar and alien. The story takes the reader through the depths of an abandoned Dwarven city whose halls still ring with battle, and on into a sleepy ...

The YGAT Corporation is back, up to strength (finally) and hustling to make an honest, if blood-soaked, dollar in the wake of a zombie outbreak. Facing the threat of zombie-like infected, terrorists, criminals, and ambitious Navy officers, the Gnomes scrounge for anything useful and try to stay one step ahead of the game. Taking place two months after Rolling Hunger, Floating Hunger takes the reader from the steaming rain forests of Belize, to the freezing backwoods of Missouri, and on to the cold swamps of the Texas Gulf Coast. Marv, JD, Brick, Chip, and the rest of the crew struggle with ...