Softly Walks the Beast

Something is creeping closer and closer. What does it want?Five years after the nuclear holocaust, only fifteen people are alive on Earth. Children, teenagers, and adults have banded together in a small southern town - for love, companionship, and survival. But now the little community is threatened. One by one they are being taken by - something. But what in God's name is it? What does it want? Why does it take the males first? How can the defenseless survivors stop this sickening, silent thing, this thing beyond the imaginable?First published as a paperback, "e;Softly Walks the Beast"e; went into three reprints, selling over 50,000 copies and garnering rave reviews by the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly, among others. This end-of-the-world page-turner takes place in the not-too-distant future. The story's white-knuckle action centers on a dwindling community of smart and resourceful people on a college campus, struggling against the horrible and seemingly unstoppable after-effects of a nuclear war. Contaminated citizens turn into monstrous fungal mutants whose only purpose in life is to spread their disease. How can a small band of individuals in rural Georgia, no matter how determined they are, hope to defend themselves?And what if they can't...?