THE HEIRESS WHO WAKES THE DEAD

Elena Vaughn (26, a midwife) secretly married Julian, the third son of the Ashe family, five years ago. Two months into her pregnancy, she was sent to be "eliminated" by Silas, the family steward, then rescued by Wes Doyle, a miner leader, and went into seclusion alone on the Whistle Ridge ridge. On the night the apocalypse broke out, she returned to Cinderwick with her soon-to-be-born child to demand an explanation — in the delivery room on the fourth floor of an abandoned hospital, she gave birth to her daughter Rowan all by herself. The baby's first cry triggered more than two dozen zombies on the entire floor. Elena fled into a shaft with the baby, and Silas's voice came from the top of the well — the man who had plotted to eliminate her five years ago was back. Forced into exile across manors, streets and bridges, she gradually figured out the zombies' positioning rules along the way, and discovered that a melody she had heard old man Barnaby humming at the water purification plant in her childhood could actually make the zombies freeze rigid. She gradually evolved from a "fugitive mother being hunted" into a "hunter who can lead zombies to the villains in turn", and on this path she met her old flame Cass Ashe (the rebellious heir), Wes the second male lead whose father was blown up in a mine by Silas to silence him, Vivian her aunt who had secretly supported her for twenty years, and Julian her husband who had been imprisoned for five years.