Song of the Sleepers - M. K. Trott

The ritual didn't bring back the dead. It let in the dark.

When the gate to the Void opens, the living are the first to fall.

Max Green is a man haunted by a broken heart and his own perceived shortcomings. But when his niece, Alice, is snatched from their small town, Max must set aside his isolation to join his brother, Gabriel, on a desperate hunt.

The trail leads to a secluded winery, where a grief-stricken madman is forcing Alice to perform a forbidden ritual. He wants his dead child returned; instead, he shatters the natural order.

The ritual fails, tearing a hole between our world and the Void. Now, monstrous entities crawl into the light of day, and the fallen don't stay down-they rise as Sleepers, zombie-like husks driven only to destroy.

Amidst a town transformed into a charnel house, Max must navigate a landscape of nightmare to rescue Alice from the men who stole her and the monsters they unleashed. In the battle for survival, Max will discover that the only way to mend a broken heart is to find something worth fighting for.

"Song of the Sleepers" is an action-packed zombie horror novel that explores the thin line between loneliness and hope, and what it truly means to be alive in a world dominated by death.