The Rotten Frontier: A Western Horror Thriller of Survival & Undead Plague

The dead don't stay buried in the West. This time, they're learning.

Bounty hunter Luke Granger rides into Smokevale expecting a simple job: one wanted man, one hundred silver dollars. What he finds is a town of the walking dead — miners fused with a fungus that rots the body but keeps it moving. Every bullet he fires teaches it. Every fire he sets, it learns to smother.

As the plague spreads through towns, livestock, and finally the wind itself, Luke gathers an unlikely band of survivors: a crippled sheriff with a score to settle, a frontier doctor who refuses to look away, and a quiet boy carrying the infection in his blood. Together they arm a broken town with fire and ashwood and ride into the earth itself — down to the Cradle of Rot, where something older than mankind is waking up.

Some evils can't be outdrawn. They have to be faced.

Inside this full-length Western horror thriller:

An undead plague that adapts, coordinates, and whispers back

A lone gunslinger forced to defend the towns he used to ride past

Night sieges, mine descents, an infected stampede, and a last stand a hundred feet underground

A clean read — relentless tension and dread with no profanity or explicit content

A complete, standalone story with a resolved ending and one final chill

Perfect for fans of The Last of Us, The Walking Dead, and classic frontier Westerns with a dark edge.

What readers say about The Rotten Frontier:

"Cleverly weaponizes the classic Western, replacing outlaws with an eerie fungal plague. Its true horror isn't just the shambling corpses, but the visceral fight to preserve human decency and grit. A tense, surprisingly moral survival ride." — Lisa, 5-star review

"Action packed and definitely made you feel like you were immersed in the old west! Luke is a great character to follow. It was refreshing to read about small towns banding together to survive what seemed like the end of the world." — Frida, 5-star review

"An exciting read. Well rounded story-writing with no gratuitous fluff." — Alena, 5-star review

About the Author

Dr. Rabea Hadi is a board-certified family physician and the author of more than 160 books — full-length narrative fiction and educational nonfiction spanning Western horror, mystery, epic fantasy, and the bestselling Choose Your Quest interactive series. A career spent listening to patients — their fears, their grit, their survival — shaped the stories Dr. Rabea writes: ordinary people who hold the line when everything around them rots, and who choose decency when it costs the most. Join the reader community at ChooseYourQuest.net for exclusive content and early access to new releases.

3 FREE ebooks are waiting inside this book as a thank-you for reading — an interactive gamebook, a cozy mystery, and a sports facts collection for the kids.

Get your copy of The Rotten Frontier today — and ride into Smokevale, if you dare.