[The Suburban Dead 01] • Left Behind

**Life is looking good for Tiernan Kelly**

He's got a decent job, a nice apartment, and he's in love.

But there's a creeping danger in the Voison Republic -

A deadly virus, twisting everything it touches.

It started as a foreign pandemic. It became a domestic health scare. It may be too late.

**Now the world is falling apart around them,**

Kelly needs to find his fiancée, take care of his neighbours, and stay alive.

For their friends, families, food and fuel, they'll brave the dangers of the city.

But ultimately, they must be their own heroes -

And escape the living hell their home has become.

Left Behind is an action/horror story, set against the backdrop of a fictional but easily relatable modern world. Told from the perspective of the group's would-be leader, it focuses on the personal story of several friends and neighbours in a city stricken by an apocalyptic plague, turning living people into walking corpses.

The characters are savvier than the average horror movie cast, and use this genre-awareness to make plenty of commentary on Apocalyptic Fiction as their story progresses from cautious ignorance of the rising pandemic, to a desperate bid to escape their doomed city.