Scared Silly

The dead are rising. People are dying. Civilization is collapsing.When the end finally occurred, everything about it was cinematic. The dead came back and ate people, civilization collapsed, and no one could do a thing.But Cyrus V. Sinclair couldn’t care less; he’s a sociopath.Amidst the chaos, Cyrus sits back and contemplates the gore stained streets and screams of his fellow man with little more emotion than one of the walking corpses. With his cache of guns and MREs, he rather likes the idea of hunkering down in his Seattle apartment while the world ends outside.All is well and good for Cyrus... until he meets up with Gabe, a belligerent annoyance, and the other inconvenient survivors who cramp his style and force him to re-evaluate his outlook on life. It’s Armageddon, and things will definitely get messy.“As people turn into monsters, a monster learns how to be human.... The zombie apocalypse meets its match in sociopathic survivalist Cyrus V. Sinclair, the antihero of Eloise J. Knapp’s THE UNDEAD SITUATION.”—Craig DiLouie, author of THE INFECTION“An action packed trip through the ‘zombocalypse’ with a unique character as our guide. Eloise J. Knapp has delivered very strong entry to the genre and I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next. Highly recommended.”—Timothy W. Long, author of AMONG THE LIVING“A roller coaster ride through terrifying and sometimes disastrous events... Knapp has managed to introduce some fresh new scenarios into her zombie tale with some unexpected turns.”—ZombiesDrule.com "When the end finally occurred, everything about it was cinematic. The dead came back and ate people, civilization collapsed, and no one could do a thing. But Cyrus V. Sinclair couldn't care less; he's a sociopath. Amidst the chaos, Cyrus sits back and contemplates the gore stained streets and screams of his fellow man with little more emotion than one of the walking corpses. With his cache of guns and MREs, he rather likes the idea of hunkering down in his Seattle apartment while the world ends outside. All is well and good for Cyrus ... until he meets up with Gabe, a belligerent annoyance, and the other inconvenient survivors who cramp his style and force him to re-evaluate his outlook on life. It's Armageddon, and things will definitely get messy."--Back cover A shoe museum? When Mary Rose and Jo-Beth Onetree and their father see a sign for "The Walk-Your-Way-Around-the-World Museum," they just have to stop and go exploring. At first, everyone's disappointed. The Walk-Your-Way-Around-the-World Museum is full of boring old shoes . But then a six-foot rabbit shows up with a mystery: some priceless slippers have vanished! Mary Rose and Jo-Beth's search for the shoes turns into one wild trip. Their "boring" museum is full of secret passages, upside-down rooms, and weird inventions! Will Mary Rose and Jo-Beth ever find the lost shoes? Will they ever find their way out? Only one thing's for sure: this is the silliest old museum they've ever been to! Sensible eleven-year-old Mary Rose, constantly at odds with her imaginative seven-year-old sister Jo-Beth, finds that they need to work together when an unplanned visit to a strange shoe museum and house of magic illusions involves them in the disappearance of a Chinese emperor's shoes.