Dead Hunger — Eric A. Shelman

A phone call to his sister leads Flex Sheridan into a nightmare and a quest to save his family from a new, horrifying epidemic that's turning humans into zombies.  As he makes his way from Georgia to Gainesville, Florida and back, he picks up old and new friends and survivors.   Flex re-connects with perhaps the strongest woman he's ever known, Gem Cardoza, his former girlfriend.  Together they take his six-year-old niece Trina - the only uninfected survivor of his sister's famiy - and his infected sister Jamie, and make a run from central Florida back to his isolated Georgia home.  As they head north, they encounter another uninfected, Hemphill "Hemp" Chatsworth.  Hemp is British, and extremely smart.  He holds a biology degree with a major in Epidemiology, as well as a degree in mechanical engineering, both of which this group will need.   Along with the crossbow-wielding Charlene "Charlie" Sanders and a pregnant Great Pyrenees dog, this small group uses street smarts