Kate and Michael, twenty-something housemates functioning in the same Investor Joe’s supermarket, are thoroughly screwed when people start turning into zombies at their house party in the Oakland hillsides. The zombie plague is certainly a sexually transmitted disease, turning its victims into shambling, horny, voracious killers. Thrust into extremes by the unfolding tragedy, Kate and Michael are compelled to confront the decisions they’ve produced, and their worries of commitment, while trying to remain alive. Michael convinces Kate to meet him in the main one put in place the Bay Area that’s likely to be safe and secure in the zombie hordes: Alcatraz. But can they stay human long enough? “In The Adoring Deceased, Amelia Beamer gives us a zombie novel like none other. Crisp, simple and stylish, it zips along from picture to scene, accumulating tension, laughter and insight as it accelerates. It is also comic and sexy, a mixture I find irresistible.” – Peter Straub, author of A Dark Matter