Ashley Parker series

## Genre Information

Horror
Zombie Apocalypse

Urban Fantasy
Zombies

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## About the Series

* **Genres:** Urban Fantasy / Zombie Apocalypse
* **Theme:**
* **Narrative style**: First person narrative told by Ashley, protagonist.
* **Wikis**:

## Series Description

Ashley Drake was just trying to get through a tough day when the world turned upside down. A terrifying virus appears, quickly becoming a pandemic that leaves its victims, not dead, but far worse. Attacked by zombies, Ashley discovers that she is a ‘Wild-Card’—immune to the virus—and she is recruited to fight back and try to control the outbreak. It’s Buffy meets the Walking Dead in a rapid-fire zombie adventure!

## Books in Series

**Ashley Parker series**:

1. Plague Town (Ashley Parker Book 1) (2012)
2. Plague Nation (Ashley Parker Book 2) (2013)
3. Plague World (Ashley Parker Book 3) (Aug 2014) ~ **Final**

### Short Stories

* Pinky Swear (2017) short story that takes place immediately after Plague World. Originally published in *Z Resurrected*, an anthology featuring new adventures about characters from existing zombie series. Can now be found as a stand alone ebook.

## World Building

### Setting:

Isolated college town in northern California—gradually throughout the U.S.

### Fantasy Elements

Zombies, crack-post scientists (started plague),

* "Wild Card": a person who is immune to the zombie virus—heal quickly and have super strength and they can't become infected by the zombies; they can, be killed if they are injured severely enough
* Dolofónoi tou Zontanoús Nekroús: secret government zombie squad ("killers of the living dead")

### World

This is a rewrite of the author's previous book entitled Ashley Drake, Zombie Hunter. On her web site, Fredsti states, "Plague Town will be a revised and updated version with a lot of new material and a slightly older heroine." You won't find much that's new or inventive in this typical zombie apocalypse tale. The outbreak is caused in the usual manner by science gone awry. Also, as usual, some people (one in every 10,000) are immune to the virus. The series follows the zombie outbreak as it begins in an isolated college town in northern California and gradually spreads throughout the U.S. and then the world. The government has a secret zombie squad that calls itself the Dolofónoi tou Zontanoús Nekroús, which, loosely translated, means killers of the living dead—or as their wise-cracking members call it, Delta Zeta Nu.

### Protagonist

Ashley Drake
a college student in her late twenties who is bitten by a zombie while on a woodsy picnic with her boyfriend and discovers that she is a wild card—a person who is immune to the zombie virus. The army recruits her and other wild cards to fight the zombies because as a result of their initial infection and recovery they heal quickly and have super strength...plus, they can't become infected by the zombies. They can, however, be killed if they are injured severely enough. Ashley's love interest is the handsome **Gabriel**, whom she meets when he assists in (ironically) a class called "Pandemics Throughout History." Gabriel later turns up as the trainer and leader of the wild card team. Gabriel is not a wild card, but he's not exactly human either.
## Book Descriptions

1. Plague Town (2012)
Ashley was just trying to get through a tough day when the world turned upside down. A terrifying virus appears, quickly becoming a pandemic that leaves its victims, not dead, but far worse. Attacked by zombies, Ashley discovers that she is a 'Wild-Card' -- immune to the virus -- and she is recruited to fight back and try to control the outbreak. — It's Buffy meets the Walking Dead in a rapid-fire zombie adventure!
2. Plague Nation (2013)
Ashley Parker was a ordinary woman who was also a “wild card,” immune to the emerging zombie plague, drawn unwillingly into a shadowy paramilitary organization. Having been ambushed in San Francisco, which is now fully engulfed in the zombie plague, Ashley and the wild cards must pursue the enemy to San Diego. There they will discover a dark organization which seeks to weaponize the plague. But that isn't the worst news. The plague itself has gone airborne, making it transferable without physical contact. It cannot be controlled by anyone, so reports of the zombie swarm are coming in from across the United States—and across the world.
3. Plague World (2014)
The thrilling conclusion of the zombie apocalypse begun in PLAGUE TOWN and continued in PLAGUE NATION! The zombie plague has gone airborne, and the conspiracy that began it all reaches the boiling point. Having been ambushed in San Francisco, which is now fully engulfed in the zombie plague, Ashley and the wild cards must pursue the enemy to San Diego. There they will discover a splinter of their own organization, the Dolofónoi tou Zontanoús Nekroús, which seeks to weaponize the plague. But that isn't the worst news. The plague has gone airborne, making it transferable without physical contract. It cannot be controlled by anyone, so reports of the zombie swarm are coming in from across the United States—and across the world.
## References

1. ↑ Books and Other Writing Projects | Dana Fredsti
2. ↑ Fang-tastic Fiction: Dana Fredsti: ASHLEY PARKER SERIES