Biblical tales retold as episodes in humanity's battle with the ravenous undead. Now, get five novels in a single volume:Death Has Come up into Our WindowsWhat Our Eyes Have WitnessedStrangers in the LandNo Lasting BurialI Will Hold My Death Close(and an exclusive excerpt from By a Slender Thread)DEATH HAS COME UP INTO OUR WINDOWS (Book 1)It is 587 BC. A vast army lies encamped about Yirmiyahu's city, and a rebellious king has closed the city gates, locking in the living and the dead together. Now, the things Yirmiyahu sees and the things he must do will call into question every promise he has made, every duty he has sworn -- to his wife, his God, and his city.WHAT OUR EYES HAVE WITNESSED (Book 2)Regina endures a death-in-life as a sex slave in the Subura, the ancient world's most terrible ghetto -- until a strange man sees her suffering and gives her a coat, a new name, and a new life. The man is Polycarp, and he has the Gift of gazing into the eyes of the hungry dead and granting them rest -- a Gift that comes at a terrible cost. And ancient Rome may burn him for it.STRANGERS IN THE LAND (Book 3)Four must stand against the dead: The aging prophetess Devora. Hurriya, the slave girl. Zadok, a legend among warriors. And the widower Barak, who has sworn to defend his homeland from a migration of walking corpses greater than has ever been seen. In this retelling of a tale from Judges, the strangers in the land must stand together if they are to rid the land of its blight.NO LASTING BURIAL (Book 4)A man wanders out of the desert one day and finds a village in ruins after a night of the walking dead. The survivors have thrown the snarling corpses into the Sea of Galilee, only to starve as the ghoul-haunted sea yields no fish. Will the stranger's coming bring back the fish, or the hungry dead?I WILL HOLD MY DEATH CLOSE (Book 5)Marked for sacrifice by her own father.... A young woman must rely on only her wits and troubled memories of her mother's faith to survive. Jepthah's daughter flees to the hills, knowing her father and his stone blade may appear at any time to claim her -- while the unburied dead of her people also hunt her in the low ravines.
