Dead, but Not for Long

When the first outbreaks occurred, the reports were quickly stifled. By the time the dead began to walk in Lansing, Michigan, it was already too late to stop the plague. In the heart of the city, a child with cancer and her caretaker risk their lives to help a security guard and a nurse secure an old hospital. As the survivors struggle to stay alive, the grid begins to fail. All the while, the dead fight to get inside. * * * As the world crumbles around them, Keith, Lindsey, Jack and a handful of other hospital employees fight to keep their patients alive. Will they work together and become a community or will it all fall apart as different personalities collide? There is Eric Wapowski, the hospital security guard who is more of a hindrance than a help; Dr. Doune, brain surgeon and sociopath, who has been tasked with the job of researching the plague; and Autumn McAllister, a nine-year-old cancer patient who is old beyond her years. When Snake and his gang of bikers find out about the hospital, will they want it for themselves? As the city is left to burn, will those that stay be able to make a stand against the ever-growing legion of dead closing in on them? Dead, but Not for Long is sometimes dark, but there are moments of levity and a message of hope as well as a few surprises along the way. It is not a book about skilled fighters with state-of-the-art weapons, but ordinary people thrust into the darkest of circumstances. What will they do to stay alive? From the authors: We are now working on a sequel. For more information about the book, please visit our website. www.deadbutnotforlong.com To contact the authors, please e-mail us at deadbutnotforlong@yahoo.com

Matthew Kinney was born in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. After spending some time in New York and Virginia, his family finally settled down in the desert Southwest where he spent the remainder of his childhood. After a short stint in Portland, Oregon, he decided he wanted to see the sun again, so he returned to the southwest where he now works as a masonry contractor and writes in his spare time. Matthew owes a great debt of gratitude to his wife and son who, after reading the rough draft of ＂Dead, but Not for Long,＂ begged him not to quit his day job. Having thoroughly enjoyed the abuse he endured co-writing his first full length novel, he is now working on a sequel. Matthew hopes to continue writing well into the afterlife * Lesa Kinney Anders was born in central Michigan and was later dragged by her parents to Nevada, where she still resides with her husband and the youngest of her four children. She has also lived in New York, Virginia and Colorado. She is currently employed as the controller for a research and development company. Lesa has been writing for years and has several mostly-finished manuscripts tucked safely away on her computer. She is currently working on the sequel to ＂Dead, but Not for Long＂ as well as a few other projects. She enjoys reading, drawing, photography, camping, traveling and martial arts and has a black belt in Taekwondo.