The plague that destroyed Blood Creek didn't vanish with the sunrise—it followed them into the prairie.

Sheriff Ezekiel Cool and his unlikely band of survivors are racing for Fort Lower Brule, desperate to warn the Army before the sickness spreads across the frontier. But the open plains hold new dangers: strangers with rifles, growing desperation, and the unsettling signs of a presence stalking them from a distance.

Myra senses someone—or something—watching. A figure whispered about in old stories, a shadow that seems to drift just beyond the edge of sight. She doesn't know what it wants, only that it's following them… and that its appearance feels far from natural.

When the group encounters a wounded mother and her infected child, Ezekiel faces impossible choices—choices that test his humanity as much as the monsters that hunt them. And Fort Lower Brule may not be the sanctuary they're counting on. Its soldiers have their own fears, their own suspicions, and their own secrets.

With miles yet to travel and night falling fast, Ezekiel must lead his people toward a future that grows darker by the hour, unsure whether the danger can be outrun… or whether it rides beside them.

Walking Dead meets 1883 on the lawless edge of the American frontier. For readers who crave bleak landscapes, creeping dread, and the fragile hope found only among survivors who refuse to give up.

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