The Hunger Series

Day One:  A series of terrorist attacks spread a cloud of noxious gas over highly populated areas. Day Two:  Higher brain function erodes in those exposed to the gas. Their bodies begin to distort, faces distending, skin sallowing, teeth elongating. Day Three:  The infected disappear into the shadows, fleeing the harsh daylight which has begun to sear their flesh. Day Four:  The world is DEVOURED. Life isn't kind to Lance York. A full-time job has eluded him for years, his wife loathes the sight of him, his bank accounts are empty, and his wealthy father-in-law revels in his failures. After he lunges in front of a car to save a sick and disoriented woman, Lance awakens in a quarantined hospital. A devastating plague is spreading worldwide, driving those infected with it insane. Their bodies begin to mutate into horrors that have haunted mankind's nightmares for centuries. The world descends into chaos as the infected flee to the shadows, emerging at night to devour the remnants of civilization. With the help of an unlikely ally, Lance must navigate through the collapsing city of Pittsburgh, striving to escape the madness of the apocalypse that unfolds around them.

Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains and dissected by three rivers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is an idyllic city.  It's quiet, the traffic is nonexistent, and floating down the Allegheny River on a boat is peaceful and serene. It's perfect… as long as you can ignore the mindless monstrosities roaming the streets, vampires ruling the night, and the insane, power-hungry human survivors.  Mankind has devolved, mutating into mindless horrors. Only weeks ago, they built skyscrapers and traveled to space. Now they attack anything with flesh, driven by the never-ending desire to consume. Lance York, and his unlikely companion Cass, have survived the apocalypse.  Much to their surprise, that was the easy part.  They've fled the city, struggling to find food and shelter, fighting against the nightmarish infected and the militant living, willing themselves to endure through each day. The world has collapsed, but the fight has just begun.

Welcome to the mountains of Pennsylvania, one of the last vestiges of the human race. Lance York, a self-described loser in another life, has rediscovered himself in the midst of the apocalypse. Along with a cadre of other survivors, including the hardened, sexy Cass, Lance has taken refuge in a compound, struggling to survive the onslaught of monstrosities descending upon them each night. The horrors that have devoured mankind are changing, their minds rebooting like a computer. Intelligence, the lone advantage of the humans, is returning to the infected. They ravage the compound with calculated, precise strikes, chiseling away at the defenses Lance and his friends have erected. With the help of new ally, Major Frank Colt, the flickering flame of the old world must fight to stave off the extinguishing tidal wave of the new one.  

Lance York and his group of hardened survivors have spent nearly two years living on an island, isolated from the horrors that devoured the world long ago. After a deluge of hurricanes force them to flee back to the mainland, they struggle for weeks to sail along the coast of what used to be the United States. When they run out of food and supplies, they enter the long-dead husk of Baltimore. They discover that humanity has clustered into a few encampments, struggling to survive against the monstrosities that own the night. Within hours of running ashore, Lance and his friends become embroiled in a war between the remaining shreds of mankind and the ever-evolving creatures that dwell in the darkness.

After a harrowing escape from a battlefield of warring camps, Lance and Cass have reunited their friends and family. They've taken refuge in The Light, possibly the only building left in the world with electricity. But their problems have just begun. Each night, creatures ascend from Baltimore's sewers, swarming the building and testing the defenses for weaknesses. These aren't the monstrosities Lance and Cass first encountered years earlier—they've evolved. Their laments fill the darkness like a primitive language. A leader has emerged from the hordes, guiding the infected in their assaults on the remaining humans. With opposing factions of survivors attacking them by day, and legions of the nightmarish horrors prowling through the night, Lance and Cass must make an uneasy alliance with The Light's residents to defend their loved ones.

After the deaths of friends and family members, Lance and Cass teeter on the brink of losing it all. They face insurmountable odds with the power out at The Light, and an army of horrors bearing down on their home.   The Demon King leads a horde of rage and destruction to their door, intending to wipe out one of the last strongholds of humanity. His intelligence has evolved differently from the other infected, allowing him to attack mankind's weaknesses and nullify their defenses.   As twilight descends into darkness, so does the last hope of civilization.