Baseball broke Evie Cordova's heart. Living in Santa Isabella, home of the five-time College World Series champs, The Quakes, Evie has grown up loving baseball. Her dad has been the head coach for as long as she can remember and her happiest memories were on the baseball diamond. But baseball broke her heart, in more ways than one, and she'll do anything to avoid it. Now Evie is in college and she can't avoid baseball anymore. Working for her dad brings her face-to-face with Austin Young, the new shortstop who has transferred in from Texas. Austin throws her off her game with his dedication to baseball and his irresistible Southern charm. The chemistry between them is undeniable and Evie finds herself falling for the baseball player But Evie has her own secrets that are holding her back and they just might cause baseball to break her heart all over again.

Zoey Valentine is concerned with two things: surviving the multitude of self-defense classes her dad makes her take and avoiding Ash Matthews. That is, until the Z virus hits, wiping out a third of the population in a matter of weeks. If that weren’t frightening enough, the bodies of the victims disappear and suddenly reappear, awakened from their dead state. They're faster, smarter, and they work together to get the one thing they crave, human flesh. The United States is in a panic and then the government decides the unthinkable: to bomb every major city overrun with the awakened. Now Zoey is on the run, with her dad and Ash, desperate to find a place of safety amongst the ruined remains of the country. **

Zoey Valentine is finally safe. Tucked away miles underground in the fortified community of the Sanctuary.But the Sanctuary is far from what she imagined.Zoey can't help but feel trapped.Sekhmet, the evil corporation behind the Awakened, is still out there andnow, citizens of the Sanctuary are disappearing.It isn't until the bodies of the missing turn up mutilated, each one tagged with a note, a warning, signed by Razi Cylon.Problem is, Razi should be dead.Sekhmet has existed for far too long, and Zoey has had enough.