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* TheChick: Played with as Emma is definitely TheHeart of her group but is also the most intelligent and level-headed one.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Jake and Emma's marriage is quite...active. This suffers in the zombie apocalypse.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Jake becomes increasingly controlling, nasty, and unpleasant as the books go on. {{Justified}} as he [[spoiler: just lost his brother.]]
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Jake becomes increasingly controlling, nasty, and unpleasant as the books go on. {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} as he [[spoiler: just lost his brother.]]
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* CrazyEnoughToWork: Emma karaoke-ing "Oops, I did it again" in order to distract the zombie horde.
** Later, she finds and kills her brother-in-law's ex-girlfriend's zombie.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Jake and Emma's marriage is quite...active. [[RealityEnsues This suffers in the zombie apocalypse]].
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* DeathOfAChild: In the second book, much to Emma's distress.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted in the second book, much to Emma's distress.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Teased at. [[spoiler: But averted.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Who goes out in the middle of the zombie apocalypse to get some stuff from their car? [[spoiler: A child who just lost her father and needed a keepsake, that's who.]]
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** Becomes a full-blown, albeit subdued, one in ''Asylum.''
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* InfantImmortality: Averted in the second book, much to Emma's distress.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: The residents of Asylum. Are all of them evil, just some, any of them whatsoever?
** Is racheted up in the sequel as no less than ''two'' groups of survivors are wiped out to the man. [[spoiler: Also, Jake's brother]].
** Appears to be officially no longer the case come the end of ''Asylum.''
* HazyFeelTurn: Jake joining the Asylum military.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Asylum has a number of rules designed to restrict women to cleaning, child-support, and other locations. As an educated and spunky nurse, Emma resents this.
* ThePollyanna:Emma.Emma is relentlessly cheery.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Jake becomes increasingly controlling, nasty, and unpleasant as the books go on. {{Justified}} as he [[spoiler: just lost his brother.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: Seems to be the case about Asylum.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Seems to be the case about Asylum.
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* AuthorAvatar: An unusual example in the main character's dog is based on the author's RL one.
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* ActionGirl: Not quite yet but Emma makes it a point of training in shooting as well as other survival techniques after arriving at the military base.
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* AngstWhatAngst: Emma keeps a positive attitude throughout. [[spoiler: Even when her husband is apparently dead.]]
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* ActionSurvivor: Emma has an almost Sookie Stackhouse ability to survive situations untouched which kill everyone around her.
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* ActionSurvivor: Emma has an almost Sookie Stackhouse ability to survive situations untouched which kill everyone around her. [[spoiler: She survives no less than ''three'' separate city-sized settlements being destroyed by zombies.]]
* AngstWhatAngst: Emma keeps a positive attitude throughout. [[spoiler: Even when her husband is apparently dead.]]
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: A rather dark example as Emma Rossi is there in the emergency room when the first zombie attacks begin.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Jake and Emma's marriage is quite...active. [[RealityEnsues This suffers in the zombie apocalypse]].
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* GoodLookingPrivates: Jake and many of the men at the military base, according to Emma.
* HappilyMarried: Jake and Emma. [[spoiler: Their marriage suffers strain as well as a brief period where the other is thought dead due to the zombie apocalypse.]]
* HappilyMarried: Jake and Emma. [[spoiler: Their marriage suffers strain as well as a brief period where the other is thought dead due to the zombie apocalypse.]]
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* HospitalHottie: Played with. Emma is a very attractive woman in her late thirties but otherwise normal.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Verges on a DownerEnding. Sanibel Island and its community is destroyed by an outbreak but Emma, her husband, her brother-in-law, her dog, and sister-in-law all escape.]]
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*** [[spoiler: Happens again in the finale when a lone survivor away from the rest of the group triggers the zombie outbreak which destroys their otherwise secure island and forces them on the run again.]]
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* CrazyAwesome: Karaoke-ing "Oops, I did it again" in order to distract the zombie horde.
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* NauseaFuel: The 'Code Brown' moment is disgusting.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Happens a couple of times. [[spoiler: subverted with Jake.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: Seems to be the case. [[spoiler: Subverted when Jake is revealed to have survived.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: Toting around a tiny little dog may not improve your chances for survival in a ZombieApocalypse. Try telling Emma that.
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* ZombieInfectee: They encounter a couple of them, one of whom hides their bite while insisting they weren't bitten. [[spoiler: it ends how you'd expect.]]
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* BadassArmy: Almost unprecedented in zombie fiction is the fact the United States Army is presented as completely competent, intelligent, concerned with civilians, and working together. [[spoiler: They still lose.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Happens more or less every time they find some place safe. The first time? ''A hurricane hits their well-fortified house.''
** To be fair, it ''is'' set in Florida.
* EvilArmy: Subverted resoundingly.
* DiabolusExMachina: Happens more or less every time they find some place safe. The first time? ''A hurricane hits their well-fortified house.''
** To be fair, it ''is'' set in Florida.
* EvilArmy: Subverted resoundingly.
* HumansAreBastards: Subverted, again, for perhaps the first time in zombie fiction where the survivors all cooperate for the greater good.
* KickTheDog: Jake thinks they should leave behind Daphne because she's a burden. Almost becomes his MoralEventHorizon for dog lovers [[spoiler: but he rescues her when she's in danger.]]
* KickTheDog: Jake thinks they should leave behind Daphne because she's a burden. Almost becomes his MoralEventHorizon for dog lovers [[spoiler: but he rescues her when she's in danger.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Has some genuinely hilarious laugh out-loud moments and a charmingly optimistic heroine, during the EndOfTheWorld.
* NauseaFuel: The 'Code Brown' moment is disgusting.
* NauseaFuel: The 'Code Brown' moment is disgusting.
* SanitySlippage: Jake suffers from this.
* TheVirus: As with most zombie apocalypses lately. Subverted as it's actually caused by a type of gas.
* TheVirus: As with most zombie apocalypses lately. Subverted as it's actually caused by a type of gas.
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In a few short days, 37 year old Emma Rossi’s hard work will finally pay off. She will don her cap and gown and graduate with a degree in nursing, but not before she loses her first patient and is confronted with a new reality. In Cape Coral, Florida, a storm approaches. The dead are coming back to life.
And they’re hungry.
Infection ravages the Eastern Seaboard with alarming speed while attempts to contain the spread of infection fail. Within days, a small pocket of panicked survivors are all that remain of civilization. Fighting to survive the zombie apocalypse alongside her husband Jake and their dog Daphne, Emma comes face-to-face with her worst nightmare.
Relying on snarky wit and sheer determination, she is forced to commit atrocious acts to protect her family and avoid joining the ranks of the undead.
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* HappilyMarried: Jake and Emma.
* LighterAndSofter: Than most zombie novels. Emma never loses her boundless optimism and it's hard to be completely depressed when there's a cute dog accompanying her everywhere.
* ThePollyanna: Emma.
* PostApocalypticDog: Daphne. Played with as she's an adorable little Yorkie.
* YourCheatingHeart: Teased at. [[spoiler: But averted.]]
* ZombieApocalypse: Caused by a mysterious gas in the ground.
And they’re hungry.
Infection ravages the Eastern Seaboard with alarming speed while attempts to contain the spread of infection fail. Within days, a small pocket of panicked survivors are all that remain of civilization. Fighting to survive the zombie apocalypse alongside her husband Jake and their dog Daphne, Emma comes face-to-face with her worst nightmare.
Relying on snarky wit and sheer determination, she is forced to commit atrocious acts to protect her family and avoid joining the ranks of the undead.
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* HappilyMarried: Jake and Emma.
* LighterAndSofter: Than most zombie novels. Emma never loses her boundless optimism and it's hard to be completely depressed when there's a cute dog accompanying her everywhere.
* ThePollyanna: Emma.
* PostApocalypticDog: Daphne. Played with as she's an adorable little Yorkie.
* YourCheatingHeart: Teased at. [[spoiler: But averted.]]
* ZombieApocalypse: Caused by a mysterious gas in the ground.
