Underground

Harper has come to the point where the world of the Grey, (the world of the dead and various “monsters”) overhangs the “real” world all the time, but she's finally learned to deal. Quinton is a friend of hers, and he takes her with him to a place containing a dead body. Quinton tells her it's not the first.

Harper manages to ripe a zombie apart (it wanted to stop existing), but her boyfriend panics and runs away. Later see visits Quinn and sees where he lives. He's hiding from the law and everyone else but those who, like him, are also hiding, or are just plain forgotten people.

Quinn and Harper work together to try and figure out what is happening. Another person dies, and Harper finds out that there was a pattern of similar deaths decades before.

She and Will break up. It also turns out she will have to meet with the head vampire, which is something she really doesn't like to do at all. Then she has to meet with Carlos, and it turns out that whatever is causing the zombies is something that even the vampires are afraid of.

Harper finds out that Albert, a ghost that has been staying at a house owned by a couple of her friends, has some kind of tie to what has been going on.

While all of this is going on, she suddenly gets visited by people from the National Security Agency.

There's a lot about a monster familiar to the Native Americans of the area, and Harper and some others talk to an elder who knows about the monster.

The rest of the novel deals with their attempts to find and stop the monster and stop the person who is controlling, sort of, the monster.

This is nothing less than a fantastic book. It combines mystery and horror, archeology and architecture, ancient spirits and more modern-day zombies. It's a wonderful blend of all sorts of interesting things, and itself at all times interesting and compelling. Without doubt this is one of the best books of this nature I have ever read.

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