Rick Grimes, his family, and the other survivors find a prison and decide it would be safe to hole up there, but they discover that the prison isn't exactly uninhabited and isn't so safe after all.

Rick Grimes, his family, and the other survivors leave thecamp outside of Atlanta in search of a safer place, which they locate about twenty miles out of Atlanta--a gated housing development called Wiltshire Estates--but it may not be as safe as it appears.

A group of people wander a land filled with zombies while trying to find food and shelter, avoid getting bitten, and possibly live normal lives.

Police officer Rick Grimes and a few human survivors battle hordes of decomposing zombies.

Rick Grimes and company try to establish a regular routine of daily life in the prison complex now that the zombies are more or less out of the way. With danger not constantly on their minds, however, relationships in the dysfunctional group start to undergo some radical changes.

Police Officer Rick Grimes and his son, Carl, find shelter in a house while zombies roam outside, but their supplies are dwindling and Rick decides it is time to move on and they encounter a familiar face along the way.

After being betrayed by members of his own community, Rick Grimes charts a new course and marshals his forces against the Whisperers.

"An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled-- no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living" -- p. [4] of cover.