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STRAYS (Book 1) by Audrey Mancini
STRAYS (Book 1) by Audrey Mancini
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Post-apocalyptic survival • “rapture gone wrong” horror vibes • flesh-eating mutated monsters (“Strays”) • found family/group survival • searching for family • humans are the real monsters • gritty, unpredictable journey
Perfect for readers of:
- Fast, gritty apocalypse stories with both monster horror and human danger
- “The world ended and nobody agrees why” setups (bio-terrorism/government/rapture theories)
- Found-family survival groups and constant moral tension
- Narrators who keep it blunt, dark, and real while everything collapses
The vibe
In short…the world ended. No one’s sure what caused it—bio-terrorism, the government, maybe even the rapture—but whatever it was, it didn’t save anyone. The bodies left behind didn’t stay dead. They rotted into mutated, flesh-eating monsters the narrator calls Strays, and surviving means learning the rules of a world that doesn’t have any.
This is a personal, boots-on-the-ground survival story: a journey through the end times that starts with a desperate search for family, then shifts into something harsher as hope gets stripped away. Along the way, the narrator finds a solid group of people to run with—but the biggest threat isn’t always the infected.
Because in the ruins, the living can be worse than the Strays. Trust is rare, cruelty is common, and the only thing you can count on is the unpredictability of it all.
Tropes & tags
- Post-apocalyptic survival
- Zombie/monster horror (mutated flesh-eaters)
- “Rapture gone wrong” premise
- Found family / survival group
- Searching for family (and losing hope)
- Humans are the real monsters
- Gritty, first-person journey narrative
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