Being a zombie isn't a lifestyle choice, like going vegan or moving to Canada. Second, you'll be doing your parents a favor-putting them out of their misery. 'First of all,' Dunbar lectured, 'you can't kill or cure a zombie because they're already dead. He had only two left, and Dunbar had an irritating tendency to rush other players when he was on the verge of winning Zombie Buffet, a game he took far too seriously. This was easier when it was just killing zombies I'm not related to.'ĭunbar set his playing cards facedown on the picnic table and impatiently thrummed his fingers on their waxy cardboard backs.

I know my parents would do everything they could to keep me alive if the situation were reversed.

Trust me-it's not going to happen.' Dunbar Frye fidgeted, studying Heath's eyes for a clue to which way he was leaning. 'Why can't I just lock them in the basement or something? Why do I have to kill them? What if someone finds a cure? It could be in the cards.' Th e two other boys stared at him, awaiting his decision. H EATH L AMBERT'S PARENTS had been bitten and turned into zombies, and now it was up to him to decide the method by which to destroy them-bashing their skulls in with a rock or chopping their heads off with the edge of a shovel. But how do you trust a leader when you suspect he’s more dangerous than the animals you’re running from? Heath came to Camp Harmony to be surrounded by nature.

Heath and a ragtag band of campers are faced with a choice: follow Will’s lead and possibly survive, or follow the camp staff and die. Wolves, bears, mountain lions?even the chipmunks are infected, spurred on in droves by one horrific goal: hunt and kill every human they find. A darkness is spreading, driving them mad with rage. Something’s wrong with the animals in the surrounding forest. Heath soon learns there’s a much bigger threat to contend with. Brilliant, cold and calculating, Will views the world as one big chess game, and he’s always three moves ahead of everyone else. But no one rattles Heath like his creepy cabin mate, Will Stringer. The camp offers distractions: his friends, Cricket and Dunbar, always up for trouble his reluctant crush on Emily, one half of the beautiful Em & Em Twins and hulking bullies Thumper and Floaties, who are determined to make him their punching bag for the summer. It’s the perfect place to enjoy the soothing calm of nature as he weighs a heavy decision.

14-year-old Heath Lambert is spending his summer at Camp Harmony in the picturesque Cascade Mountain Valley.

Frenzy by Robert Lettrick