Surviving Zombies

When the power dies in Savannah, it doesn’t come back on—it wakes the dead. As the city violently collapses into chaos, the Leesburg family is torn apart across three brutal frontlines. Dr. Sharon Leesburg, a veteran trauma surgeon, barricades her floor inside a failing hospital, sealing herself in with laboring mothers, fragile newborns, and a staff already breaking from the terror. Below them, the emergency rooms have become feeding grounds. Above them, there is nowhere left to run. Every medical decision she makes now costs lives—she just has to choose which ones. Across the city, her husband, Dr. Ellis Leesburg—a top-clearance military neuroscientist stationed at Hunter Army Airfield—races to contain an outbreak he helped study. But as the military prepares to cleanse the grid with hellfire, Ellis realizes the infection has already breached the base. Whatever safeguards were in place failed quietly, efficiently, and far too late. Out in the ash-choked streets, their children are scattered. Six-year-old Ella Belle, the heart of the family, never makes it home from school. She vanishes somewhere between early dismissal and total collapse—leaving no answers, no trace, and no time. Desperate to find her, twenty-four-year-old Justin Leesburg is forced into brutal leadership. He navigates dead zones and back alleys with dwindling supplies, a handful of traumatized survivors, and the constant fear that every step he takes is a step farther from his missing sister. His mission is compromised by his younger sister, Tally—narcissistic, reckless, and desperate for control—who keeps dragging danger right to their doorstep. Caught in the crossfire are Justin’s pregnant girlfriend, Mari, pushed past her patience into ruthless honesty, and Kenzie, a quiet teenager carrying her small dog and the fresh memory of her family’s slaughter. Kenzie learns quickly: silence, not strength, is what keeps you alive. This is not a story about clever zombies or easy survival. The dead react to sound. The living react to fear. Every choice is loud. Every mistake echoes. And while the ravenous horde closes in from the outside, the real danger fractures the people still breathing—grief, guilt, rage, and the unbearable question haunting the entire family: Where is Ella Belle? Surviving Zombies is a visceral, character-driven apocalyptic thriller that strips away hero fantasies and replaces them with moral collapse, trauma, and the brutal truth of survival: you don’t just fight the end of the world—you fight each other, and yourself, while it’s happening.