Hoaks - Torn Apart Series (Book 4): Escape Texas Dead

ESCAPE TEXAS DEAD

Torn Apart Series

Book 4

C. A. Hoaks

Copyright @ 2015 By Charlotte A. Hoaks

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This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to people or places, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Acknowledgment

Change your thoughts, and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

Once you have set a goal, know in your heart, you can reach them. It may mean educating yourself to gain a skill to be successful, but then still remember some painters paint a thousand canvases before someone takes notice, sculptors work decades before selling their first work and of course, fiction writers write in boring technical fields while writing dozens of failed novels before publishing the first one. In every case, the person changed the way they thought and changed their world.

I have lived my life by this motto. So can you.

San Antonio-The Attack

A biological attack on US military bases included San Antonio. The viral agent spread across the compounds, then the communities surrounding those bases increasing the death and destruction. While coping with the hundreds of dead and dying from the unknown agent, confusion reigned. The real horror became evident when the dead reanimated and attacked the living.

Elizabeth Jameson received a warning from her military police husband. He demanded she takes their two daughters and leaves the city, immediately. When caught in a massive traffic jam on a freeway, Liz and her children were separated while trying to escape the ensuing massacre. Liz secured her daughters behind a fence then led the infected away. While trying to get back to her children, an infected attacked Liz. She was rescued by a trio of Viet Nam Veterans, Harry Walters, David Simon, and John Tilman, who then volunteered to aid her in her quest to find her daughters. Liz and the vets arrived just in time to witness three soldiers in a military vehicle spirit away the children in a mad dash to escape the infected swarming the alley. Liz and her saviors mounted motorcycles and raced after her daughters. Ultimately, their quest is abandoned when Liz falls ill, and they are met by members of the Pine Springs Canyon compound.

The day of the attack, Matt Monroe was just another soldier struggling to cope with life back in the States. Like most off-duty time since his return, he was spending the day drinking. With the infected swarming the streets, Matt was rescued by fellow soldiers, Jake Curtis and Larry Benson, from the rundown bar. Finding it impossible to escape with a passed-out Monroe, they dropped him into a dumpster and secured the lid. When the two men returned to the alley to rescue their friend, they found two children hidden in the trash bin along with him. Surrounded by the infected, the soldiers grabbed the kids and barely escaped. Matt and his team, with other rescued survivors, find security and safety at a campground. Over time Matt rescues more survivors in need of sanctuary including a brash, rough-speaking, female truck driver. Despite his promise to take the children to Pine Springs Canyon, he and his fellow soldiers rescue even more survivors while the camp struggles to feed and clothe an ever-growing population of mostly children and women. The struggle to get the children to their family is complicated and ends up postponed time and time again, but Matt is determined to get them to family.

Steve Benton, a double amputee, was in a rehabilitation center with Della Marshall and unaware there had been an attack until the city was overrun by the infected, and they were trapped. When the infected broke into the facility, Steve and Della rescued a small group of teens left to fend for themselves. Together the group faces loss and danger as they continue their journey to Pine Springs Canyon. The road is more dangerous than ever as they near their destination.

Brian Jameson, surviving the initial attack on the military base in San Antonio, makes his way through the city despite a torrential rainstorm flooding the municipality. He collected survivors and rescued others from the abuses of their fellow Texans. Brian faces danger at every turn as he travels hundreds of miles to Pine Springs Canyon where he hopes to find his wife, Liz, and two daughters. During his race to find his family, he is forced to face the atrocities of the new world delaying his quest time and again. Brian meets more than the dead when he is forced to face an adversary from his past.