Book one in the Black Tide Rising series from the New York Times bestselling authorZombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few marines.When an airborne "zombie" plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family—Steven, Stacey, Sophia, and Faith—take to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos. The plan is to find a safe haven from the anarchy of infected humanity. What they discover, instead, is a sea composed of the tears of survivors and a passion for bringing hope.For it is up to the Smiths and a small band of Marines to somehow create the refuge that survivors seek in a world of darkness and terror. Now with every continent a holocaust and every ship an abattoir, life is lived under a graveyard sky.