Maximum Effort

Lord of The Living Dead. Thousands of Worm Brains had already undergone the startling transformation to something that was less, and somehow more, than human. Helen McIntyre was one of them-but with a difference. She could hear their thoughts in her head, and they worshipped her for it. But the mind she most cherished was closed to her, for the man she loved, Blaise Cunningham, was only normal, and each day he was slipping farther away from her. Blaise knew that it was up to him to protect Helen and her kind, but he didn't know how. And the Worm Brains' answer-that he take the final step himself and become one of them-was not an acceptable solution. But Helen and the others who had once been human knew the truth: Blaise Cunningham was the key to God...