The Harvesting by Melanie Karsak

From New York Times best-selling author Melanie Karsak comes the award-winning Harvesting series.

It was the end of everything we knew.
The pandemic came, killing millions.
Then, the dead began to rise.

Layla Petrovich, a Smithsonian curator, is busy with her life in Washington D.C. when a pandemic sweeps across the globe. What starts out as the flu flames into a global catastrophe.

Escaping D.C., Layla sets off for her rural hometown, Hamletville. All her life, Layla tried to run from the shadow of her past. Now, she must risk everything to get to her grandmother, the only person she truly loves, before it’s too late. The townspeople of Hamletville—including the ex-boyfriend who jilted her—will soon discover that they need Layla’s help if they hope to survive the end of the world.