Through the Zombie Glass. Gena Showalter
THE WHITE RABBIT CHRONICLES
I’ve lost so much.
A dear friend.
My new home.
My purpose. My pride.
And it’s my fault. I can blame no one else.
I and I alone let the darkness in.
Zombies stalk the night. Forget blood and brains. These monsters hunger for human souls. Sadly, they’ve got mine…
Alice Bell has lost so much. Family. Friends. A home. She thought she had nothing else to give. She was wrong.
After a new zombie attack, strange things begin to happen to her. Mirrors come to life, and the whispers of the dead assault her ears. But the worst? A terrible darkness blooms inside her, urging her to do very wicked things.
She’s never needed her team of zombie slayers more, but ultra bad-boy Cole Holland, the leader and her boyfriend, suddenly withdraws from her…from everyone. Now, with her best friend Kat at her side, Ali must kill the zombies, uncover Cole’s secret and learn to fight the darkness.
But the clock is ticking…and if she fails at a single task, they’re all doomed.
Through the Zombie Glass
Gena Showalter
To three bright lights in my life—Shane, Shonna and Michelle
Contents
“The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A Note From Ali
Where should I begin?
With travesty? Heartache?
No. I don’t want to begin with where I am now.
I don’t want to end that way, either.
We’ll start with this. A truth. Everything around us is subject to change. Today is cold. Tomorrow, heat will come. Flowers bloom, then wither. Those we love, we can grow to hate. And life...life can be perfect one minute and in shambles the next. I learned that lesson the hard way when my parents and beloved little sister died in a car crash, shattering every corridor of my heart.
I’ve done my best to weld the pieces back together, but—tick, tock. Another change.
A change that cost me everything.
The respect of my friends. My new home. My purpose. My pride.
My boyfriend.
And it’s my fault. I can blame no one else.
One mistake gave birth to a thousand others.
I knew there were monsters out there. Zombies. I knew they weren’t the mindless beings movies and books portrayed them to be. They exist in spirit form, unseen to the ungifted eye. They’re fast, determined and, at times, smart. They hunger for the source of life. Our spirits.
I know, I know. That’s laughable, right? Invisible creatures determined to feast on humans from the inside out? Please. But it’s true. I know, because I became an all-you-can-eat buffet—and offered my friends as dessert.
Now I’m not just fighting the zombies. I’m fighting to save the life I’ve grown to love.
I will succeed.
Tick, tock.
It’s time.
Chapter 1
Begin at the Beginning
A few months earlier
More and more I’d been dreaming about the crash that killed my parents and younger sister. I relived the moments