A sinister Necromancer wishes for power and immortality. A dying hero wishes for one last crack at evil. Lord Harlequin wants to sow chaos and strife. When all their paths cross on a magical night, their lives are changed forever.“This series is truly terrifying. Mr Harwood is a master of horror.” “Tremendously Different Apocalyptic Epic” “I have never read a zombie book quite like this one.” The second series in the Of Sudden Origin universe.Since the beginning, nature has revised and deleted her various life forms. Versions of man have been dominant for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years. Africanus, Habilis, Erectus, Neanderthal, and many more, have returned to the dust from which we all come. At times they have overlapped with one another and even interbred until a dominant new design supplants that which came before. Telepathus is here now. "What of us?" asks the Sapiens. Perhaps Sapiens has had its time too... Ten years have passed since the modern world was riddled with FNDz (Frontal Negation Dementia) and North America fought to the edge of extinction. America has folded in on itself in perfect isolation. Infected but medically stabilized people live in exile, and beyond the wall known as the Terminus, a new species of Man is growing stronger every day. On the isolated Mid-Atlantic peninsula of Delmarva, a splinter group of Americans led by a man without morals, have created their own nation. A group of them will follow a team of Northern explorers into the very heart of darkness, awakening the new species to the competition that Homo Sapiens really are.