Hyper-violent and possessed with a murderous rage, no-one knows where the diseased hordes outside Edin’s walls came from, but they all understand their single-minded purpose …To spread their virus to the uninfected …Spike and Matilda, as residents of Edin, are about to serve their six months of mandatory national service. Six months outside the city’s walls where fifty percent of the people who leave, die.But they won’t be a statistic. They won’t deny themselves the future they have planned together. And not only will they survive, but they’ll thrive, returning to Edin with a chance of becoming one of the city’s next protectors.At least that’s the plan …What they’re yet to realise is their chances of survival will become the least of their worries.Things in Edin are about to change forever …Beyond These Walls is a post-apocalyptic epic. Join Spike, Matilda, and their friends as they leave their city for the first time to face the brutal reality of national service. Some of them won’t return, and for those who do, their lives will never be the same again.