In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives,

every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations
cut
in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older
brother
Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but
what he gets is a
vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.
The First Days
(As the World Dies #1)
by Rhiannon Frater (Goodreads Author)
3.77 · Rating details · 9,657 ratings · 1,151 reviews
Katie is driving to work one beautiful day when a dead man jumps into her car and
tries to eat her. That same morning, Jenni opens a bedroom door to find her
husband devouring their toddler son.

Fate puts Jenni and Katie—total strangers—together in a pickup, fleeing the

suddenly zombie-filled streets of the Texas city in which they live. Before the sun
has set, they have become more than just friends and allies—they are bonded as
tightly as any two people who have been to war together.

During their cross-Texas odyssey to find and rescue Jenni’s oldest son, Jenni
discovers the joy of watching a zombie’s head explode when she shoots its brains
out. Katie learns that she’s a terrific tactician—and a pretty good shot.

A chance encounter puts them on the road to an isolated, fortified town, besieged
by zombies, where fewer than one hundred people cling to the shreds of
civilization.

It looks like the end of the world. But Katie and Jenni and many others will do
whatever they have to to stay alive. Run, fight, pick each other up when they
stumble, fall in love…anything is possible at the end of the world. (less)