The Infected

The Infected is a group that includes thousands of people who have contracted a devastating disease that causes horrible sores, bleeding eyes, and insanity.

Emma

Emma is a nineteen-year-old girl who has been on her own for the past ten years since the death of her father. She is the ultimate loner, having survived completely by her own wits since a series of events led to a world filled with evil, disease and danger, particularly for young women like Emma

Her father was a survivalist who taught his young daughter many valuable skills that have enabled her to exist on her own for such a long time. Most of the time, Emma lives in a remote cabin that belonged to her father, but occasionally she makes the dangerous trip to an equally-remote farm house where she lived as a child and now keeps a secret stash of...