The drone was meant for the power station. It hit the church instead.February 2024. In the Ukrainian town of Kryvobor, a Russian Shahed crashes into a 300-year-old church and tears open a hidden crypt. The rescuer who climbs down to search for survivors comes back up pale, silent and wounded at the throat.Within days, people start dying during the nightly curfew. An old man in his own yard. A night watchman at the foot of a grain silo. A young nurse in the snow outside the hospital gate. Every throat torn open. Not one drop of blood left in the bodies.Senior Investigator Oleh Marchenko has spent two years documenting war crimes and feels nothing anymore. Exiled from Kyiv for embarrassing the wrong people, he is sent to write a quick report and close the case. But the local police are lying, the graves in the cemetery are empty, and the town's dead have started knocking on windows at night, begging to be let in.With a young local sergeant, Marchenko uncovers a legend buried beneath the church: a Cossack colonel who drank the blood of the fallen in 1648 and was chained in iron by monks who could not kill him.Those chains are broken now. He is heading east, toward a front line where the dead lie unburied by the thousands.The war has given him a banquet. And the whole country is the table.Hour Zero is the gripping first book in The Curfew Dead, a dark horror thriller series set against the real war in Ukraine. Perfect for fans of military horror, vampire fiction and apocalyptic thrillers.Scroll up and start reading tonight. Just don't open the window. Read more
