As the second day of the disaster continues to unfold, a storm is gathering. High above Sombie Street, vast clouds are preparing to unleash torrential rain, but strange lights above those clouds hint that something even more sinister might be about to happen.

At the Earnshaw, Daphne is still trying to maintain control. The barricades are holding – at least for now – but more and more noises can be heard coming from the other side. From their vantage point on the hotel's roof, the survivors can already see that the streets of London are starting to fill with more and more zombies. And if the barricades can't hold them all back, the street and the hotel might soon face more than one type of flood.

Meanwhile, Tom Duke and Maggie head toward the palace, hoping to find a better kind of shelter. They soon discover, however, that they're not the first people to have this idea. Dark forces are waiting for them in the palace's opulent rooms, and what seems at first like a miracle soon starts to resemble a complex and deadly trap.

And then, back at the hotel, the heavens open and tragedy strikes.

Dust & Rain is the third book in the Duchess of Zombie Street series, about a desperate band of survivors trying to survive a zombie apocalypse in a single London street. Each book ends on a cliffhanger, and readers are advised to read them in order.

First published: July 2024
Genre: Horror / Post-Apocalyptic / Zombie
Series or Standalone: Series (3 of 6)