She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.
Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would changed course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took....
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Alice Bell: "Ali" - "Alice Rose Bell" - A sixteen-year-old orphan who sees monsters; Has wavy white-blonde hair, big blue eyes and legs that stretch for miles; Is five-ten
Emmaline Lily Bell: "Em" - "Emmaline Lily Bell" - Alice's little sister; 8 years old; Has a slick fall of dark hair and beautifully uptilted golden eyes
Miranda Bell: "Miranda Bradley" - Alice & Emma's mother; Has a slick fall of dark hair and beautifully uptilted golden eyes; Is barely over five-three; A medical transcriptionist
Phillip Bell: Alice & Emma's father; Has blond hair and electric blue eyes; Is six-four; He saw monsters no one else could see; A builder
Grandmother Emmaline: "Nana" - "Emmaline Bradley" - Alice & Emma's maternal grandmother; Carl's wife; Miranda's mother; Has shoulder-length brown hair and golden eyes
Carl Bradley: "Pops" - Alice & Emma's maternal grandfather; Emmaline's husband; Miranda's father; His thinning, graying hair has receded so much at the sides that he has a major widow's peak and he sports a cringe-worthy comb-over; Was a boxer in his youth
Cole Holland: A guy at Alice's new school; 17 years old; Leader of a "gang"; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Is gorgeous with hair so black it's almost blue and violet eyes; Is six-three; Has a myriad of scars and beautiful tattoos on his chest and arms
Kathryn Parker: "Kat" - "Mad Dog" - "Meow" - Alice's new best friend; Frosty's on-again, off-again girlfriend; 16 years old; Has straight dark hair, large hazel eyes framed by spiky black lashes, and skin the perfect shade of sun-kissed
Frosty: Kat's on-again, off-again boyfriend; Cole's best friend; 17 years old; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Has dark blond hair and dark blue eyes with brown flecks; Has black bands tattooed around his wrists and brass knuckles tattooed over his knuckles
Trina Brighton: "Rina" - Part of Cole's group; 18 years old; Has muscular arms and tats; Her hair is chopped to just below her ears, and there are scars stretching across the back of her neck (like teeth marks)
Reeve Ankh: Alice & Kat's friend; 16 years old; Has dark hair, striking, bold features, and her skin is the most beautiful sun-dusted color of bronze
Poppy Verdeck: Kat's friend; 16 years old; A beautiful freckled redhead
Wren Kyler: Kat's friend; 16 years old; A gorgeous black girl with amazing caramel eyes
Mackenzie Love: "Kenz" - Cole's ex-girlfriend; 17 years old; Part of Cole's group; Has silky dark hair curling to the middle of her back and jade-green eyes
Bronx: Part of Cole's group; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Has barbells in both of his eyebrows and electric blue hair
Haun: "Spike" - Part of Cole's group; An Asian boy with dark brown hair sticking up all over his head and dark eyes
Cruz: "Turd" - Part of Cole's group; A hispanic boy with brown hair and a scar running down the side of his cheek
Lucas Anderson: Part of Cole's group; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Is gorgeous and black; Wears a house arrest anklet
Derek: Part of Cole's group; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Is black
Brent: Part of Cole's group; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Has blond hair
Collins: Part of Cole's group; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Has a shaved head; Wears a house arrest anklet
Boots: Ducky's best friend; Was part of Cole's group; Died last year from a disease called Antiputrefactive Syndrome
Ducky: Boots' best friend; Was part of Cole's group; Died last year from a disease called Antiputrefactive Syndrome
Justin Silverstone: Cole's nemesis; Jaclyn's twin; 16 years old; Is very cute with auburn hair and puppy dog brown eyes
Tiffany Chang: A girl at Asher High School; Is heavyset with dark hair
Mr. Flanagan: Alice's former neighbor; Cary's father
Mrs. Flanagan: Alice's former neighbor; Cary's mother
Cary Flanagan: Alice's former neighbor; Mr. & Mrs. Flanagan's son; A cute boy, a little older than Alice
Dr. Wright: Principal at Asher High School; Has dark brown hair framing a pretty face, brown eyes and olive-toned skin
Mr. Buttle: "Mr. Butthole" - Teacher at Asher High School
Ms. Meyers: Creative Writing teacher at Asher High School; Is short and rotund; Wears her salt-and-pepper hair in a bun and her glasses are too big for her face
Tyler Holland: Cole's father; A tall man with dark hair, electric blue eyes and a shadow of a beard on his jaw
Mr. Ankh: Reeve's father; A genius plastic surgeon with the hands of an angel; Dates someone new every week; Is five-eleven with salt-and-pepper hair and deeply bronzed skin
Prologue - A Note from Alice Chapter 1 - Down the Zombie Hole Chapter 2 - The Pool of Blood and Tears Chapter 3 - Eerily Curiouser and Eerily Curiouser… Chapter 4 - What Bloody Bloody Nonsense! Chapter 5 - The Deadly Rabbit Returns Chapter 6 - Advice from a Dying Caterpillar Chapter 7 - Out of the Chrysalis and Into the Abyss Chapter 8 - The Beginning of the Dead End Chapter 9 - A Fiendishly Mad Tea Party Chapter 10 - Hungry…Need Brains…Will Have Yours Chapter 11 - Red Roses, White Roses…Black Roses Chapter 12 - Off with Her Head! Chapter 13 - Knock, Knock, Says the Evil Chapter 14 - Let’s Hear the Chorus of Pain Chapter 15 - The King and Queen of Shredded Hearts Chapter 16 - The Good, the Bad and the Really Ugly Chapter 17 - A Nightmare of Zombie Proportions Chapter 18 - Alice’s Happy Beginning What's on Alice's iPod? Special Q & A with Gena Showalter
Antiputrefactive Syndrome: A disease that turns your blood into a toxic sludge, basically causing you to rot from the inside out. It's not contagious or anything like that, or so the proverbial ‘they’ say.
Witness: Someone who has died, who lives in heaven and watches over the lives of those they loved.
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