| = Chronicles of the Apocalypse = Species |

| BOOK I: SPECIES The end came on a Friday night. In its final hour, humanity had no chance to raise an angry fist to the sky and rage against its fate. The human species perished with all of the fanfare and hurrah of unwitting cattle led to slaughter. Yet few died quickly and painlessly. Tortured, anguished looks were affixed to the faces of the dead which littered the streets like autumn leaves--features stained with coagulated blood and claw marks drawn in bleeding lacerations across their throats. Their vacant eyes searched the heavens for help, for answers, for salvation, only to find they were alone. Those who survived were the chosen, the damned: saved by their genetics. It was a random mutation that would have killed them had life been permitted to continue unimpeded, and it was that same malady that enabled seven strangers to survive them. The survivors thought they had been saved. They thought it was over. And then they reanimated the dead... |


| BOOK II: THE HIVE Death came from above in a cataclysmic rain of fire, wiping all life from the face of the earth… save for the chosen, the few possessing a genetic mutation allowing them to survive the atmospheric changes that exterminated their race, changes conducive to a colonial extraterrestrial organism capable of reanimating the dead. Having narrowly escaped the rising of the new order of humanity, the ragged survivors flee into the mountains beneath a ferocious blizzard that refuses to relent. Their sanctuary is fleeting, as the creatures mercilessly track them down, metamorphosing into something even more vile and deadly. Now the lone way to escape the onslaught is to learn how to think like them, to be like them… to become them. Only then will mankind’s last hope be able to find their weaknesses and prepare for the ultimate battle, the outcome of which will determine no less than the fate of our race. Who will survive the evolution of the species? |