In The Family, the story continues in the aftermath of the undead outbreak, where survival depends not just on avoiding the walking dead, but navigating the brutal new societies rising from the ruins.

The biker gang known as The Family has seized control of Uxbridge, imposing their dominance on both the living and the undead. Violent, unpredictable, and bound by their own twisted code of loyalty, they represent a danger far greater than the shambling corpses outside the gates.

At the heart of the novel is the group of survivors introduced in The Hordes. They must now contend with the terrifying reality of living under The Family’s shadow—where betrayal, intimidation, and violence lurk in every exchange. Personal loyalties are tested as characters struggle to decide whether to submit, resist, or escape the gang’s rule.

As the tension builds, The Family explores not only the horror of the apocalypse but also the fragile line between order and chaos, freedom and subjugation. The undead may be ever-present, but the true threat comes from the living—those who wield fear as power.

The Family brings the same gritty, realistic character work and wry tone to this second installment, grounding the brutality of the world with sharp human moments, gallows humor, and the uneasy question: when survival demands compromise, how much of your humanity can you keep?