When They Come Home

THE DEAD DON’T FORGET.Paramedic Mateo Cruz thinks he understands death.Then a dead man opens his eyes.Within hours, cities begin to collapse as the recently dead return with a violent hunger for the living. But Mateo soon discovers something far more terrifying than the outbreak itself.The infected are remembering.They remember streets. They remember houses. They remember names. And most terrifying of all, they remember the people they loved.As civilization falls apart, Mateo races to reach his sixteen-year-old daughter, Sofia, while his ambulance partner, Jamal, hides a bite that should have transformed him hours ago.Then Mateo’s former wife, Elena, becomes infected.But Elena does not forget her daughter.She recognizes Sofia. She protects her. And somewhere inside the monster she is becoming, a mother is still fighting to come home.Infectious-disease physician Dr. Evelyn Park soon uncovers a horrifying possibility: the infected may not be mindless at all. Memory, emotion, recognition-and even choice-are beginning to survive the transformation.The people everyone thought were dead may still be trapped inside.And now millions of infected are moving toward the one thing they remember most.Home.When They Come Home is an emotional zombie-apocalypse thriller about survival, family, memory, sacrifice, and the terrifying possibility that death may not be enough to make someone forget the people they love.Some bonds survive death.And some of the dead will cross anything to get back to the people they left behind.