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3In a few short days, 37 year old Emma Rossi’s hard work will finally pay off. She will don her cap and gown and graduate with a degree in nursing, but not before she loses her first patient and is confronted with a new reality. In Cape Coral, Florida, a storm approaches. The dead are coming back to life.
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5And they’re hungry.
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7Infection ravages the Eastern Seaboard with alarming speed while attempts to contain the spread of infection fail. Within days, a small pocket of panicked survivors are all that remain of civilization. Fighting to survive the zombie apocalypse alongside her husband Jake and their dog Daphne, Emma comes face-to-face with her worst nightmare.
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9Relying on snarky wit and sheer determination, she is forced to commit atrocious acts to protect her family and avoid joining the ranks of the undead.
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11''Time of Death: Induction'' is author Creator/ShanaFesta’s full-length novel debut. It is part of a larger series published by Creator/PermutedPress. Its sequel, ''Time of Death: Asylum'' was released on December 9, 2014.
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14This series contains the following tropes:
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16* ActionGirl: Not quite yet but Emma makes it a point of training in shooting as well as other survival techniques after arriving at the military base.
17** Becomes a full-blown, albeit subdued, one in ''Asylum.''
18* ActionSurvivor: Emma has an almost Sookie Stackhouse ability to survive situations untouched which kill everyone around her. [[spoiler: She survives no less than ''three'' separate city-sized settlements being destroyed by zombies.]]
19* AmbiguouslyEvil: The residents of Asylum. Are all of them evil, just some, any of them whatsoever?
20* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Happens a couple of times. [[spoiler: subverted with Jake.]]
21* AnyoneCanDie: Seems to be the case. [[spoiler: Subverted when Jake is revealed to have survived.]]
22** Is racheted up in the sequel as no less than ''two'' groups of survivors are wiped out to the man. [[spoiler: Also, Jake's brother]].
23* AuthorAvatar: An unusual example in the main character's dog is based on the author's RL one.
24* BadassArmy: Almost unprecedented in zombie fiction is the fact the United States Army is presented as completely competent, intelligent, concerned with civilians, and working together. [[spoiler: They still lose.]]
25* BeenThereShapedHistory: A rather dark example as Emma Rossi is there in the emergency room when the first zombie attacks begin. She's also there for several major events in the ensuing zombie war.
26* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Verges on a DownerEnding. Sanibel Island and its community is destroyed by an outbreak but Emma, her husband, her brother-in-law, her dog, and sister-in-law all escape.]]
27* CrazyEnoughToWork: Emma karaoke-ing "Oops, I did it again" in order to distract the zombie horde.
28** Later, she finds and kills her brother-in-law's ex-girlfriend's zombie.
29* DeathOfAChild: In the second book, much to Emma's distress.
30* DiabolusExMachina: Happens more or less every time they find some place safe. The first time? ''A hurricane hits their well-fortified house.''
31** To be fair, it ''is'' set in Florida.
32*** [[spoiler: Happens again in the finale when a lone survivor away from the rest of the group triggers the zombie outbreak which destroys their otherwise secure island and forces them on the run again.]]
33* DoomedHometown: Emma's hometown is where the zombie apocalypse begins. You do the math.
34* EvilArmy: Subverted resoundingly.
35* GoodLookingPrivates: Jake and many of the men at the military base, according to Emma.
36* HappilyMarried: Jake and Emma. [[spoiler: Their marriage suffers strain as well as a brief period where the other is thought dead due to the zombie apocalypse.]]
37** Appears to be officially no longer the case come the end of ''Asylum.''
38* HazyFeelTurn: Jake joining the Asylum military.
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40* TheHeart: Played with as Emma is definitely this in her group but is also the most intelligent and level-headed one.
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42* HumansAreBastards: Subverted, again, for perhaps the first time in zombie fiction where the survivors all cooperate for the greater good.
43* JerkassHasAPoint: Toting around a tiny little dog may not improve your chances for survival in a ZombieApocalypse. Try telling Emma that.
44* KickTheDog: Jake thinks they should leave behind Daphne because she's a burden. Almost becomes his MoralEventHorizon for dog lovers [[spoiler: but he rescues her when she's in danger.]]
45* HospitalHottie: Played with. Emma is a very attractive woman in her late thirties but otherwise normal.
46* LighterAndSofter: Than most zombie novels. Emma never loses her boundless optimism and it's hard to be completely depressed when there's a cute dog accompanying her everywhere.
47* MoodWhiplash: Has some genuinely hilarious laugh out-loud moments and a charmingly optimistic heroine, during the EndOfTheWorld.
48* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Asylum has a number of rules designed to restrict women to cleaning, child-support, and other locations. As an educated and spunky nurse, Emma resents this.
49* ThePollyanna: Emma is relentlessly cheery.
50* PostApocalypticDog: Daphne. Played with as she's an adorable little Yorkie.
51* SanitySlippage: Jake suffers from this.
52* TookALevelInJerkass: Jake becomes increasingly controlling, nasty, and unpleasant as the books go on. {{Justified|Trope}} as he [[spoiler: just lost his brother.]]
53* TooDumbToLive: Who goes out in the middle of the zombie apocalypse to get some stuff from their car? [[spoiler: A child who just lost her father and needed a keepsake, that's who.]]
54* TownWithADarkSecret: Seems to be the case about Asylum.
55* TheVirus: As with most zombie apocalypses lately. Subverted as it's actually caused by a type of gas.
56* ZombieApocalypse: Caused by a mysterious gas in the ground.
57* ZombieInfectee: They encounter a couple of them, one of whom hides their bite while insisting they weren't bitten. [[spoiler: it ends how you'd expect.]]
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