STAND ON CALIFEX

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Not too far in the future, humanity is spreading out, colonizing new galaxies. The future is bright and positive, until mysterious aliens--the first ever encountered--begin attacking and destroying colonies, leaving no one alive. Their motives are as mysterious as their origins. They came from nowhere. They don't communicate with us. They just kill. Captain Joshua Arnold has the only hope for victory. He'll make his stand on Califex.

Sheriff Brody Johansen is overworked, under-budgeted and falling in love with one of his deputies. So the last thing he needs is to find grave robbers have struck an out-of-the way cemetery.

What he discovers about the missing bodies links them to a mysterious lab that set up in his county a few years earlier. Before he knows how it’s all tied together, he’s faced with a situation he can hardly believe: an infection is spreading, turning anyone in its path into mindless, flesh-craving freaks.

Brody joins forces with a scientist from the lab and a shady man who worked for the lab’s owners to fight the rising tide of the undead—and his feelings for the unobtainable woman under his command. They might have a future together after all, if they can survive.

Dr. Carol Winston escaped a mindless horde of the infected by going underground. Along with a few other survivors and a fellow coworker, a man known to her only as Jenkins, she waited for word that the situation was contained and it was safe to come out of hiding.

But that word never came, and she set out to find out what happened. Captured and forced to continue work on the virus responsible for it all, she has little hope for her own survival, or that of the rest of the world.

All she can do is wait for someone to come save her, until she realizes she has a way to perhaps save them all, if only she has enough time.