Saving Grace

In the spirit of Children of the Damned, The Girl with Gifts, and the film Weapons, Jon McConnell’s first foray into writing horror delivers a heart-pounding dive into a strange new world that is haunting and dangerous. Middle school English teacher Gabriel Walker always joked that his students were going to kill him; he never thought it might actually happen. After a mysterious epidemic turns children into psychotic killers who rule the night, the world descends into chaos. Gabriel and a small group of survivors are alive because they hide in plain sight; they broke down their own door, busted in their windows and even took pictures off the wall to make it seem as if the house was abandoned in a rush. The survivors have a system of survival and it works. But when they run into Grace, who might be the last healthy girl on earth, everything changes.

McConnell is the co-author of The Time Trials and a fan of science-fiction, horror, and post-apocalyptic epics. He is an avid Tampa Bay Buccaneer fan, a Magic the Gathering enthusiast, and lover of anything zombie. He resides on the Central Coast of California with his wife, whom he plots and writes and edits with. They also co-wrangle two insane sons.