Escaping San Antonio after a terrorist attack is not enough; survivors are forced to face the undead! After a horrendous death, the infected rise up to devour the living. The nightmare of late night television becomes reality across the Lone Star state within a week.Liz Jameson's every attempt, to find her children, is fruitless until a single clue of their survival is found. All the while, with her protectors, two Viet Nam Vets that did their best to locate the soldiers that rescued Liz's daughters eventually could only ensure her safe arrival to her father, William Edmonds, at his Pine Springs Canyon hide-away. Matt Monroe faces his own struggles in the midst of the apocalypse. He finds himself the guardian of nearly sixty people in addition to the Jameson girls. He and his men set up camp at a remote fishing camp in the Hill Country. The struggle is more than half of those survivors are children.Four VA Center survivors made their way out of San Antonio and to the safety of Utopia, a small rural community in the middle of nowhere west Texas. Steve Benton, Della Marshall and Zack Davis with three companions escape the small town when a corrupt Major and his men invade to set up a private fiefdom. Steve's band of survivors find temporary shelter in a remote hunting cabin when Steve develops a life-threatening infection. Amid the relief of Steve's recovery, they are forced to move on.Brian Jameson, Liz's husband, with a young recruit, Billy Walker, and a small group of survivors from San Antonio continue their trek west. When faced with the injustice of other, Brian's journey to reunite with his family is interrupted.
About the Author: C. A. Hoaks spent twenty years as a technical writer for IT and software projects for some of the largest companies in Houston, Texas. Now retired, she is devoting her time and energy to a different style of writing. A life-long love of the written word has provided a solid foundation for her fiction writing. Currently, C. A. Hoaks is working on apocalyptic fiction projects based in Texas. The inevitable fall of metropolitan areas during any apocalyptic scenario has always been fascinating. Without the skills of yesteryear, how would civilization survive is always at the heart of each situation. C.A. finds asking the questions of who would know how to survive, what skills would add to a group of survivors, and who would have latent skills that would be an asset? SURVIVE TEXAS DEAD is the third book in the Torn Apart Series.