Shawn Chesser Books in Order

Picking up on day four of the outbreak, Cade keeps driving toward Myrtle Beach with the dead and the desperate closing in. Every mile east costs him something, but turning back is not an option.

On the day the Omega virus turns Portland violent, former Delta operator Cade Grayson is separated from his wife and daughter by 3,000 miles. He loads up, heads east, and vows to find them alive or die trying.

As the outbreak widens, Cade's story crosses with new survivor factions, including dangerous zealots and ruthless opportunists. The fourth book broadens the world and shows how quickly survival can become politics.

Cade's fight grows beyond reunion and escape as military missions, power plays, and fresh enemies complicate survival. While he is drawn back toward duty, Brook and Raven are learning how hard this new world can be.

Cade returns from a mission to find his supposedly secure base no longer feels safe. Forced to choose between duty to country and protection of his family, he starts weighing a dangerous move west.

With Omega swallowing what remains of the United States, two survivor groups face impossible odds and hard losses. This installment pushes the series deeper into the human cost of staying alive one more day.

Three weeks into the outbreak, Cade must move his family and other survivors across Utah toward a promise of safety. At the same time, Duncan's hunger for revenge threatens to drag everyone into fresh disaster.

Winter reaches the Eden compound, and Cade tries to use the cold to gain an edge over the dead. Then an old decision starts a chain reaction that could break the group apart when they need each other most.

A pause in the action gives Cade and the other survivors time to reckon with the people and places still haunting them. But in this world, grief does not stay quiet for long, and the next mission is never far away.

When enemy soldiers are found on American soil, Cade answers a direct call to defend what is left of the country. While he is away, the survivors at Eden face resurging dead and brutal scavengers closer to home.

This side story steps back to Duncan Winters before he became one of Cade's key allies. As the world starts to fail, Duncan battles PTSD, the bottle, and the first signs that life as he knows it is ending.

Cade comes home from a mission to find his life and community badly shaken. While training Raven for the world ahead, he starts chasing answers about hidden enemies, shaky loyalties, and threats closing in on Eden.

Still carrying grief, Cade takes Raven outside the wire and turns the trip into brutal survival training. Missing friends, enemy soldiers, and swelling zombie herds make the lesson far more real than either of them wants.

Lee Riker returns to Indiana for his mother's will just as reports of the dead rising turn real. A deathbed promise, a frightened sister, and a hard quarantine shove him into a desperate run for survival.

In the nation's new capital, Raven Grayson is battling loneliness and grief when vandalism to something she loves points toward a larger threat. To follow the clues, she has to trust her training and act without much help.

Lee Riker, Tara, and Steve-O hole up in a Miami mansion and hope the outbreak can still be contained. When the Romero virus reaches their doorstep, they flee with almost nothing and a plan that may not survive first contact.

After a punishing trek to New Mexico, Lee Riker and his companions finally near safety, only to find Santa Fe falling apart around them. Old secrets, supply shortages, and a deadly problem from Riker's past push the group to the edge.

Nearly a year into the apocalypse, Cade Grayson leads the Pale Riders to Idaho after clues point to a dangerous new enemy plan. Zombies, political chaos, and old wounds collide as he races to stop the next disaster.

Back in Portland after years of combat, Cade Grayson wants a normal life. Then intelligence from Kabul lands on his porch, and he reunites his old team to stop terrorists already operating inside the United States.

Winter is closing in on Trinity House, and Lee Riker's uneasy group is still patching itself together. A radio distress call and a strange map send them into the Southwest on a rescue mission that could save someone, or split them for good.

Years into the apocalypse, Cade uses a stand-down to take Raven on a solemn mission across the western frontier. Part training exercise and part reckoning, the trip tests their bond against zombies, soldiers, and human predators.

Riker and his companions are offered refuge inside a Cold War bunker after a brutal journey through the Southwest. Safe walls quickly turn into a trap, and escape may be just as dangerous as staying.

A source long believed dead sends word from inside China, and Cade sees a chance to learn more about Omega's origins. While he launches a high-risk mission abroad, Raven begins her own next stage of training.

Back at Trinity House, Shorty learns his daughter may still be alive somewhere to the east. He joins Riker on a rescue run through zombie country, hostile territory, and old promises that still demand to be kept.

A reckless trip into Santa Fe puts Trinity House in the sights of a former mob hitman. A winter resupply mission soon becomes a brutal contest of revenge, pressure, and who is willing to sacrifice what.