The Long Road

Drew must fight his way across an undead America to save the last of his family and reveal the biggest lie of all.

Drew returns from the brutal disappointment of so-called "paradise" in Ireland and confronts a whole new challenge: a thousand-mile journey across infected America. Can he survive the zombie apocalypse and save the last of his people?

He was the last of his family to escape the Reanimates and cross to Ireland. Now, years later, he returns with a dark truth: There is no refuge across the ocean. The emerald haven has already fallen into a dictatorship that runs on slavery and fear.

Now, having returned to America, Drew must fight his way across a fatally-infected New York and the remains of civilization itself to find and warn the last of his people—don't go. There is no escape to Ireland. Their hell is worse than ours.

The Long Road is two stories in one—Drew's travels to Montana to save the last people in the world that matter, punctuated by the vivid, violent memories of Ireland and what humans can do to each other when the world collapses around them.

All is not lost, but Drew brings with him a bitter message: When your last hope is stolen from you … it's time to build hope, all your own.

J. Rudolph is the author of the zombie series, The Reanimates, and the young adult paranormal mystery, Hadley's Haunting. Born in 1977, she resides in Southern California with her husband, son, two turtles (who she claims own all rights to her house and allow the people to live there, only because they can open the food jars) and her maniacal bird (who seems to have developed a taste for flesh in its lifetime). As a nurse with over fifteen years of experience, she often incorporates an element of medical training in her stories, offering authenticity to her medically-minded characters. Rudolph also offers authenticity to her zombie series—she calls herself a living dead girl ever since her spinal reconstruction.