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The world ended. His wife betrayed him. Now he’s stuck on a tropical island... with twelve beautiful women—and a deadly secret beneath the sand.

Jude thought escaping the zombie apocalypse on a cruise ship was salvation.
He was wrong.

After a cruel twist of fate leaves him stranded and betrayed, he wakes up on an island that seems like paradise—but the truth is far more dangerous.

He’s not alone.
Twelve mysterious women.
No way out.
And the undead? They're not the only threat hunting him.

Will Jude survive the secrets of the island… or become part of them?

Stuck in an Island with Twelve Beautiful Women

But even as he spoke, the pool stirred. Not the surface-no ripple marred its mirror-like calm-but beneath, deep down, something shifted. A shape, dark and vast, uncoiled at the bottom, rising slowly toward the light.

Jude's heart seized. He reached for Rose, for Sophie, drawing them back. "Stay together," he said, voice steady despite the chill that raced down his spine. "Stay ready."

The shape came closer, its outline clearer now-like a great serpent or root, dark as shadow, moving with the slow, inevitable grace of the sea itself. The glow of the spiral brightened, as if feeding the thing's ascent, and the hum filled the clearing so that it was no longer sound but the very air they breathed.

Lucy stepped beside him, her blade raised. "Say the word."

Zoey flanked him on the other side, her stance wide, prepared. "We're with you."

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