When the dead in Fairfield begin waking—pleading, sobbing, and driven by an unrelenting violence, Eddie Langley quickly discovers they're not like the horror movies he's grown up watching. As his sleepy town splinters under the weight of paranoia, suspicion, and mounting terror, Eddie and a desperate group of survivors must piece together what's happening before the madness spreading through Fairfield consumes them all. But the deeper they dig, the more they realize the true horror may lie much closer to home.