Death was supposed to be humanity's final disease. Jonathan Trude intends to cure it-even if he must become the first human test subject. At eighty-two, dying from cancer and heart failure, the billionaire founder of Trude Biotechnics risks everything on an experimental anti-aging serum. At first, the impossible happens: his cancer disappears, his failing body heals, and decades seem to fall away. Eleven minutes later, the miracle becomes a nightmare. As a terrifying infection escapes the laboratory, Jonathan discovers that the outbreak is not a new disaster but the awakening of something buried beneath the Adirondack Mountains for forty years-something intelligent, evolving, and bound together by a relentless hunger. Miles away, Andria Lopez has only one mission: protect her twelve-year-old brother, Manuel. Brave, observant, and living with Down syndrome, Manuel notices dangers others overlook. But when the infected begin speaking their names and a secret from their father's past connects them to Trude Biotechnics, their quiet farmhouse may become the most dangerous place of all. Two families. One buried conspiracy. A plague that remembers. Generation Zero is a gripping, character-driven post-apocalyptic horror thriller about family, sacrifice, survival, and the deadly consequences of humanity's obsession with defeating death. The cure worked. Now the world may not survive it.
