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**PLEASE BE AWARE This eBook collects the first two Living With the Dead eBooks into one. This work contains. "LWtD: With Spring Comes The Fall" and "LWtD: The Bitter Seasons" as well as a large amount of bonus content. If you own "With Spring Comes The Fall" and simply want the next six... read more

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A self-proclaimed nerd protects his friends & family when a strange virus eruptes causing people to die & quickly reanimate as zombies. He starts out by reinforcing his home and his mothers home but as people start coming he finds himself and his friends building a compound that ... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

A self-proclaimed nerd protects his friends & family when a strange virus eruptes causing people to die & quickly reanimate as zombies. He starts out by reinforcing his home and his mothers home but as people start coming he finds himself and his friends building a compound that encompasses his neighborhood. They defend this place against not only the zombies but the trash of society who are determined to take the safe haven that he has created. Josh and his group realize that every human life will matter if the earth is to make a comeback, but some of the existing genepool is not going to be benificial toward the future. They fight against the dregs of society to protect what they have. While they are open and welcoming to other survivors, Josh is aware that it is only a matter of time before one of the incoming is a bad seed or worse one of the existing people that he has fought side by side with, cracks under the pressures of this new lifestyle. Josh has maintained a daily blog of the things they have done and the ways they have done them as a format for anyone else out there trying to survive. He has supply lists, equipment lists and general tips and techniques included in the day to day report of their lives.

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  • Josh: Main character, blog writer, Jess's husband
  • Jess: Josh's wife
  • Patrick: Josh's friend, 6'3" 280lb Alaskan
  • David: Josh's brother, lives out in the sticks but may come to the compound
  • Little David: Josh's friend & a pretty tough guy
  • Joe: A friend from S. Frankfort
  • Bigby: A Norwegian Elk Hound
  • Gabrielle: Gabi, friend, nurse
  • Courtney: A friend they had to go and get because she was running low on supplies & everything around her had been burned
  • Steve: Was with Courtney, who Josh & Jess went to rescue
  • Elizabeth: Josh's first love, Jess is trying to convince Josh to impregnate her
  • Al, Allison: Came with Elizabeth, she brought her roommate and the roommate's boyfriend with her
  • Darlene: One of 4 siblings to join
  • Jack: He started up another large group
  • Edward: Darlene's brother
  • Ellen: Darlene's sister
  • Josh's mom: Has knowledge in the medical field, lives very close but won't move in with him. The compound eventually encloses her home anyway
  • Will: Soldier from Richmond who's helicopter crashed leaving the other soldier dead and leaving Will a patient at the compound long enough that he ended up wanting to live there. He earned the trust of most of the people.
  • Jackie: Joshua's sister. She came with her husband and 4 children.
  • Dodger: A forty something marine vet, from Mercer County just out of Harrodsburg
  • Jamie Packard: Managed to save his immediate familt only to lose them and a group he was leading. He sucker punched Dodger, received 4 lashes for it, and with the wierdness of all men they seemed to become close friends.
  • Treesong, Tree: Friend of Josh's, they went to rescue him and were attacked by a group of marauders.
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