Elena survives a year of the apocalypse only to be handed to the dead by the people she fed. Her husband Leon, his mistress Lena, and his whole family push her into a zombie horde so the pregnant mistress can take her place. Elena dies, and wakes up twenty days before the outbreak.
This time she moves first. She divorces Leon, drags his affair and his money scheme into the open, and trades a rescue for funding from Marcus Vance to build a fortress and stockpile weapons. Researchers and neighbors call her a lunatic while she warns them what is coming, and when the virus finally sweeps New York, everyone who laughed has to decide whether to beg at her gate or break in.
