DEADFALL: AFTER THE HORDE

The Price of Freedom

By: Clint Stryker

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The dead are fading.
The living are the danger.
A year after the meteor plague shattered civilization, the great zombie hordes are finally breaking apart. Heat, time, and quiet resistance have done what armies could not. Roads reopen. Survivors emerge. For the first time since the end, the future feels possible.
That’s when the bandits come.
As the Maddox-led community brings farms back to life and opens safe travel corridors, word spreads fast—and not everyone drawn to order wants to live by it. A roaming coalition of predators begins hunting survivor groups, forcing men to join them, enslaving women, and killing anyone who resists.
The community has spent months preparing for this moment.
Underground shelters, disciplined patrols, suppressed rifles, and hard-won intelligence have turned survival into stability. But stability brings responsibility. To protect the vulnerable and end the violence, the community must finally reveal what it has become—and accept the consequences.
When the bandits push too far, the response is swift, decisive, and unforgettable.
Deadfall: After the Horde — The Price of Freedom is the final chapter in the Infection From Beyond series—a grounded, hard-edged exploration of what it takes to rebuild civilization after catastrophe, and what it costs to defend it once the monsters are no longer the dead.