Synopsis: Another Dawn: an apocalyptic novel

A strange disease rages through the United States, later spreading to the rest of the world. Presenting with a rash, blindness, and a strange dementia, it kills more than half of the US population. The government, in a panic, pulls all people that have contracted the disease out of hospitals and morgues. The dead are all buried in various mass graves in the middle of nowhere. The infected and dying are pushed into quarantines, which are located in guarded bases similar to Area 51. Strangely enough, grave by grave, some of the dead are starting to rise. Most of the dead remain dead in the graves, but some crawl their way out and go on to terrorize the still-living. The people that remain still uninfected scatter themselves, some breaking off into small communities and become small cities, and others take their remaining loved ones and choose to distance themselves from people.
This story is really about a boy - who lost everything but is still strangely optimistic - and a girl - who never thought anything good could come out of this pandemic. He is searching for something, and she's along for the ride - though it soon becomes less about what he's looking for, and more about their love and trying to find a future amongst this chaos.