Ground Zero by Crystal Avilla

Five men wake up in a strange basement laboratory. Naked. Scarred. Their memories erased. They don’t know who they are or how they got there. All they know is they’re in danger.

The surviving members of Hogan’s Zeroes, an elite military unit, barely escape the clutches of an armed security force and find themselves hunted in an unfamiliar city. With no supplies, no answers, and no one to trust, they realize their only hope lies inside Lazarus Corporation itself—the secretive biotechnology firm famous for resurrecting the dead.

But their search for the truth leads to darker secrets.

When new employee Brynn Garland is tasked with salvaging the company’s tarnished reputation, she discovers evidence of grotesque experiments using the controversial Serum Vitae to manipulate life itself. Lazarus isn’t just raising the dead—they’re experimenting on the living with catastrophic consequences.

Forced into an uneasy alliance, Brynn and the Zeroes fight to expose the corporation’s twisted plans and uncover a government conspiracy. But the serum is mutating, and none of them are prepared for the disturbing truth: the dead at Lazarus don’t stay dead . . . and the living may not stay human for long.