Will the stranger's coming bring back the fish, or the hungry dead? The survivors have thrown the snarling corpses into the Sea of Galilee, only to starve as the ghoul-haunted sea yields no fish. In this retelling of a tale from Judges, the strangers in the land must stand together if they are to rid the land of its blight.Ī man wanders out of the desert one day and finds a village in ruins after a night of the walking dead. And the widower Barak, who has sworn to defend his homeland from a migration of walking corpses greater than has ever been seen. And ancient Rome may burn him for it.įour must stand against the dead: The aging prophetess Devora. The man is Polycarp, and he has the Gift of gazing into the eyes of the hungry dead and granting them rest - a Gift that comes at a terrible cost. Regina endures a death-in-life as a sex slave in the Subura, the ancient world's most terrible ghetto - until a strange man sees her suffering and gives her a coat, a new name, and a new life. Now, the things Yirmiyahu sees and the things he must do will call into question every promise he has made, every duty he has sworn - to his wife, his God, and his city. A vast army lies encamped about Yirmiyahu's city, and a rebellious king has closed the city gates, locking in the living and the dead together.

(and an exclusive excerpt from By a Slender Thread)ĭEATH HAS COME UP INTO OUR WINDOWS (Book 1).Biblical tales retold as episodes in humanity's battle with the ravenous undead.

Strangers in the Land by Stant Litore