First Date of Doomsday

Maisie Bennett is determined to get laid before lockdown, no small feat for an anxious doomsday prepper who has never survived a first date.

When a stubbly-jawed film professor swipes right, she swears she will act normal and leave her taser behind.

Dr. Everett Greer has little desire to date after a personal tragedy, yet he cannot stand up the woman his best friend catfished him into meeting.

Their uneasy meetup is already off-kilter, with Maisie clinking in cargo pockets and a utility belt that looks packed with weapons, when a GI virus that has trapped half of America in the bathroom starts killing people and raising them as flesh-eating zombies.

The mismatched pair flee north toward possible safety with Everett's cat, Chicken, and strike a bargain: she will teach the soft liberal-arts professor how to survive, and he will teach her how to live through movies, travel, and sex.

As the miles pile up, their lessons turn intimate, and both of them stand to lose far more than a first date gone wrong.