Clio’s lost her faith. She tries to be good. She spends time in prayer. She even hears the voice of God, but she can’t figure out what God is babbling about. The zombie apocalypse isn’t helping, either.

Charlie, on the other hand, doesn’t worry about faith, or jobs, or money, or much of anything. But things are getting difficult. You try living a care-free existence surrounded by zombies.

Still, the zombies are too bad. They’re slow, and they aren’t smart. It seems like life might get back to normal (+zombies), until one night when this run-of-the-mill zombie pandemic takes a nasty turn: suddenly everyone who dies becomes a zombie, and the zombies develop some kind of hive-mind sentience that isn’t at all good for Clio and Charlie’s chances at survival.

Fleeing for their lives, they end up at a zany water park called Big Beaver Lodge, where there don’t seem to be any zombies. Unfortunately, people can be worse than monsters. Confronted with real evil, both Clio and Charlie find something worth living for…and it’s not Bobby Beaver and the Beaver Spirit.

Sometimes the people who have the strongest faith are the ones who’ve lost it.

Leonard Warren takes the zombie story back to its supernatural roots with this first installation of his Dead and the Damned series.