Everyone feared the dead. The dead feared me.
The day the dead rise, Cassia Reyes does what she's always done: she stays calm. She's spent her life preparing bodies for rest, and nothing about the apocalypse frightens her more than a Tuesday at the morgue.
But the zombies won't touch her.
They kneel.
Then the Zombie King walks through thousands of the undead, stops in front of her, and says:
"My bride has finally returned."
She has never seen him before. But when Zayn touches her, memories of another life flood in: a woman whose presence could keep the dead at peace, and the lover who held her the night she was murdered.
A hundred years ago, someone killed the Queen of the Dead. Now she's back, the world is ending, and the killer is still out there.
Zayn is brutal to everyone else, and gentle only with her. He has waited a century for her to return. But is he waiting for Cassia, or for the woman she used to be?
To survive, she'll have to find her power, trust the monster who claims her, and uncover who took everything from her before they finish the job.
Apocalypse. Rebirth. A slow-burn love between a woman and the king of the dead.