Zombie Castle (Book 1)
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I looked at the little girl’s sleeping face. You couldn’t be cross with her. A helpless six month old baby girl who’d lost everything. She’d already stolen a small piece of my heart and I think we all looked to her as a kind of mascot: a symbol of hope for the future. If little Sarah could survive this, then there might be hope for humanity yet. A small hope maybe, but at that moment I think we were willing to take whatever we could get.
As we finished our breakfast of coffee and pancakes, we got ready to start our day. We had no idea how long it was going to take us, but we were beginning the journey we’d first planned on Bodmin Moor. That seemed like a lifetime ago.
We were heading into unknown dangers. Our group had grown to twenty one, including a baby. We’d lost friends and loved ones and watched others die without being able to help them. We’d also killed out of mercy. As far as we knew, we might well be among the last survivors in the UK, but we had survived and we knew how to survive.
Now we were heading for one of the oldest symbols of power in the world. These places had offered shelter and sanctuary to people for centuries. The designs might have changed and the materials used to build them might have altered but they’d all been built for one purpose: to keep their occupants safe from the dangers that lurked outside the walls. Over the years countless castles had fallen into disrepair, no longer required for their original purpose. Now times had changed. We needed somewhere that could resist a besieging army of zombies. Nothing built in modern times was going to be able to do that.
We set out on our journey to the only place that could offer us a future.
A symbol of our past.
We were heading to our Zombie Castle.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Harris was born in South Birmingham in 1971. Apart from a few years in his early twenties he has lived his whole life in the city, and proudly declares himself to be a true ‘Brummie’, born and bred.
He settled in Moseley about fifteen years ago and has become a keen and active member of its thriving community.
He is a loyal and enthusiastic member of Chantry Tennis Club where he can frequently be seen demonstrating his talents on (and off) the court.
He’s also a dedicated supporter of several local music festivals and a number of local charities and is passionate about supporting the local independent economy (and is therefore a regular at the many local independent pubs and restaurants for which Moseley is rightly famous!)
His early career centred around the building trade, before moving on to property development. Now a family man with a wife and three children, all of whom are very important to him and keep him very busy, he still finds time to pursue his many interests, which include: tennis, skiing, racquet ball, darts, and shooting. He’s also been an avid reader throughout his life.
He came late to writing, but feels that it’s really ignited something long buried inside him. It’s given him an outlet for his imagination and, never one to be short of an opinion or the last word, he’s enjoyed the opportunity of ‘putting this down on paper’ in his books.
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NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
Thank you for reading this far. As I’ve said in my previous books, if you’ve enjoyed this one please leave a review and if you haven’t then please accept my apologies, contact me via my Facebook page and let me know how I could have done it better.
Writing this book was a fantastically enjoyable experience. The fact that it was a zombie book enabled me to dispense with reality and break away from the boundaries and rules that respectable human beings are meant to adhere to.
In the meantime, I would like to say thank you to the following people:
To my family for allowing me the time and space to write. Nicky, Billy and Katie I love you.
To my volunteer Beta readers who again played an invaluable part in the process.
To Paul Berry, Shawn Graveling, Simon Wood (they all love their characters), James Clayton, Edward James and Mark Jones – thank you all very much.
To Sian Abbinnett, my proof reader and editor. Our meetings were much more fun than proper work. The memory of the looks we got from people overhearing us trying to describe as many ways to kill a zombie as we could think of with a knife while having a coffee in a local coffee shop still makes me chuckle.
And most of all to you, the person who bought my book and took the time to read it, thank you.
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Table of Contents
ZOMBIE CASTLE
COPYRIGHT
DEAR READER
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR