Dead Awake: Collapse

The bite infects you. Sleep seals your fate. Noxidone was meant to be a miracle drug - designed to shorten the sleep cycle, unlock more hours in the day. Somewhere along the way, everything went wrong. The town of Egglemore is waking up to a terrifying epidemic. Those who have taken Noxidone are trapped in a violent, hallucinatory state, attacking other residents in increasingly brutal ways. Worse yet, the infection is transmitted through bodily fluids, activating when victims fall asleep. Trapped in the midst of this chaos are a journalist on a last-ditch effort to save her career, a survivalist mother trying to protect her ailing daughter, and an introverted shut-in faced with the world outside his window. The barricades are going up, escape less likely with every passing minute. When it takes just one mistake to become infected, how many second chances can you afford? The first entry in the Dead Awake series, Dead Awake: Collapse offers a twist on the traditional zombie outbreak, with action-packed set pieces, ‘fast-infected’ and flawed characters doing whatever it takes to stay alive... and awake. If you come into contact with the infected…