The first book in an epic new series! Humanity's worst nightmare has become a reality... One evening, there is a tearing, roaring sound from the sky. Before long, people start to fall ill, to suffer and die. But they don't stay dead. They rise, possessed by a terrible hunger that drives them to consume the flesh of the living. As the terror spreads and the situation deteriorates, people must resort to increasingly desperate measures in order to survive. And so begins the Year of the Dead.