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Mr. Isherwood has been writing in various venues for over 30 years. He got his start rolling dice and writing fantasy adventures for his friends in Dungeons and Dragons. He wrote an extremely dull book called "Master's Thesis" so he could escape from a dystopian nightmare called college. Then he went into IT for twenty years. Today, he is passionate about zombies and post-apocalyptic worlds. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where many of his stories take place.

The world is ending. Who will save Grandma?What would you do if a mysterious plague began to devour your city and the dead started banging on your door?Fifteen-year-old Liam Peters is spending the summer with his great-grandmother (not by choice) when the authorities of St. Louis spin up the tornado sirens to announce a civic emergency. Police robocalls declare mass disturbances throughout the city, suggesting citizens try to escape to safer jurisdictions. Radio offers contradictory instructions: stay inside, hunker down, ride it out. The President tries to convey a message of hope to calm a scared populace, but the tone is interpreted as a goodbye. The mixed messaging sends society--already on the verge of panic--into a tailspin. When the President signs off, half the city boards their windows while the other half dashes for the interstate.Now Liam is faced with his first dilemma of an increasingly complicated morning. Should he stay with Grandma and attempt to defend her urban home against both the living and the dead, or should he try to get her out of the city to his parents' home in the suburbs? Nothing is ever as simple as it sounds when life and death are on the line.As an avid reader of zombie books, Liam realizes you go into the zombie apocalypse with the army you have, not the one you want. He sees himself as an unlikely savior, with an unlikely ally, but he embarks on the hero's journey nonetheless. As the city implodes, they race against the clock to outpace desperate refugees, gang violence, criminal opportunists, overzealous military units, scared civilians, and a growing horde of bloodthirsty zombies. He does it while burdened with a woman unable to walk more than ten feet without his help.As they chase the elusive vision of safety, Liam comes to appreciate why there are no atheists in foxholes.The Sirens of the Zombie Apocalypse series.Book 1: Since the SirensBook 2: Siren SongsBook 3: Stop the SirensBook 4: Last Fight of the Valkyries [April 28, 2016]Reader Feedback for Since the Sirens."I would give it 6 stars if I could.""The highest praise I have ever given an author""It was an excellent rendition of a post apocalyptic world"Author's Notes:Since the Sirens can be read as a standalone story. It doesn't end with a cliffhanger. Books 2-4 continue the story but are optional reading beyond this first volume. I hope you'll enjoy Liam and Grandma's journey enough to follow them further, but as an author and a reader of post apocalyptic and young adult book series, I abhor misleading or otherwise trapping readers.

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Safety in the suburbs? Not in this apocalypse.Liam and Grandma have crossed the river to the suburbs, leaving the zombies on the far shore. So why is the battle for survival just getting started?Fifteen-year-old Liam Peters was successful in rescuing his 104-year-old great-grandmother from the worst of the zombie plague in the urban hell. They were finally in the suburbs, ready to enjoy the safety and calm they'd been after. All he had to do was get Grandma to his survivalist father and be free of the burden of caring for her. Should be a piece of cake.As a voracious reader of zombie literature, Liam knows nothing is ever as it seems during the zombie apocalypse, so he's ready for letdown. True to form, the tranquility is shattered when he accepts a ride with a local police officer. The officer's small town is fighting to keep the citizens of nearby St. Louis from crossing bridges over the river to safety. When the zombies show up behind the blockades, nothing will stop the desperate men and women from storming the town's defenses. The crowds arrive with murder in their eyes.Liam and Grandma are swept up in the destruction, always with an eye for what's behind the mobs of angry refugees. As they race for Liam's suburban home, the swelling zombie horde pushes the wave of fleeing humanity into the suburbs and ensures there's no peace or security for anyone. Liam's entanglement with a military convoy sets events in motion which reveal the presence of a government research facility, a refuge filled with Boy Scouts, and the first hint of a cure to the zombie plague.As he endures many challenges in the hills and forests outside the sprawl, he learns the government itself is chewing up test subjects in their quest for that cure. Only when he stumbles upon a mass grave does he finally see the direct threat to his grandma.The Sirens of the Zombie Apocalypse series.Book 1: Since the SirensBook 2: Siren SongsBook 3: Stop the SirensBook 4: Last Fight of the Valkyries [April 28, 2016]Reader Feedback for Siren Songs."Love the faith in the story, love the lack of profanity.""Enjoyed book 2 as much as book 1.""Excellent addition to this series!"Author's Notes: Siren Songs is book 2 in my Sirens of the Zombie Apocalypse series. As such, it answers some of the questions hinted in book 1. You will gain a better understanding of the plague. You'll learn what Liam's parents have been doing. And finally, you'll get the answer to the central mystery of book 1: why was there a severed foot in the front seat of Angie's car? (sorry, that's Apocalypse humor) This book does end with a cliffhanger, though I included a sneak-peek chapter of book 3 just in case you want to stop the series and don't want to feel ripped off.COMING SOON: Paperback version.

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When the sirens end, "post-apocalypse" begins.Exhausted after two weeks of rolling chaos since the sirens, Liam and his family prepare for their biggest challenge yet.Fifteen-year-old Liam Peters starts his day in a muddy creek. The Air Force tried to wipe his subdivision off the map, but luck and fast feet helped him find refuge from the big bombs. When he looks up, he sees his whole life has been swept away by fire. And Grandma? He'd been successful getting her out of the city, and across suburbia, but she was snatched from him minutes prior to the attack. She'd gotten a one-way ticket to a brutal government facility set up to research the cure.As a studious reader of zombie literature, Liam knows the dangers of being without shelter or direction during the zombie plague. He'd already been attacked by angry looters, malicious refugees, and hordes of zombies. His house had been riddled by a chain gun--twice--before the final bombs fell. He tried to look ahead, but saw little hope. He was bolstered by Victoria, but without Grandma by his side he felt defeated.And yet, hope was out there. People were coming together to survive and help each other. One such group was at the Beaumont Boy Scout Reservation. It was an enclave of peace within the swirl of zombies and death engulfing all of metropolitan St. Louis. There Liam and his family might find a base from which to search for Grandma Marty.As book 3 concludes, Liam will learn the origin of the plague, the fate of Grandma, and whether a couple of teenagers have anything to look forward to in a world filled with zombies.The Sirens of the Zombie Apocalypse series.Book 1: Since the SirensBook 2: Siren SongsBook 3: Stop the SirensBook 4: Last Fight of the Valkyries [April 28, 2016]Author's Notes: Stop the Sirens is book 3 in the Sirens of the Zombie Apocalypse series. I tried to deliver satisfying answers to the most pressing questions from books 1 and 2, in case you'd like to quit the series at a break point. This book does not end with a cliffhanger requiring you to read further. I even give a sneak peek into book 4 to help with closure. However, I've had such tremendous response to this series I've started work on book 4. I needed to leave a few mysteries for Liam, Grandma, and Victoria to solve! Thank you for being a reader.COMING SOON: Paperback version.

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The escape is over. The race to save civilization begins.Forget bullets, food, or shelter. The most precious resource in the Zombie Apocalypse is now the elderly. A rare few over the age of 90 survive. Some died within hours, when the power shutoff. Some died in days, as their meds ran out. Others succumbed to the elements, died by the teeth of the zombies, or made easy marks for desperate criminals.Grandma Marty is 104. Unlike almost everyone else, she has a resistance to the plague. An elusive protection only found in some people over the age of 100. It makes her an instant fugitive from those who unleashed the sickness, and an instant rally point for those fighting to find the cure.With teens Liam and Victoria by her side, Marty does what she can in the real world--but she also experiences a dream-like state inside her mind where she interacts with an image of her long-dead husband. Unsure if she's going senile under the stresses of the Apocalypse, or being graced by the presence of an angel, she does her best to hold it all together. A tall order when zombies walk the Earth.Now, two weeks since the sirens, and fresh off surviving a brush with the group who crafted the deadly disease, Liam and Victoria are rescued by remnants of a Marine Corps strike force. Also rescued is a young woman who literally crawled from under a pile of dead bodies inside a medical lab. Grandma knows her--she saw her in her dreams.Armed with a powerful clue given to them by Colonel McMurphy, Liam and Victoria begin a new adventure which is destined to span four states and reveal exactly what the zombie plague is going to do to the human race.The Sirens of the Zombie Apocalypse series.Book 1: Since the SirensBook 2: Siren SongsBook 3: Stop the SirensBook 4: Last Fight of the Valkyries [April 28, 2016]Author's Notes: Last Fight of the Valkyries is book 4 in the Sirens of the Zombie Apocalypse series. It is a continuation of Liam, Marty, and Victoria's story, and it builds in new characters. Books 1-3 concerned the first days of the collapse and established the good guys and the bad. Books 4-6 will explore the origin of the zombie infection and the all-important question for Liam--can humanity survive them? I hope you enjoy where the story is taking us both. Thank you for being a reader.

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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy