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Del Rey
October 2012
On Sale: September 25, 2012
496 pages ISBN: 0345523342 EAN: 9780345523341 Kindle: B0082XLTIE Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult
Can the living coexist with the living dead?
That’s the question that has New Victorian society fiercely
divided ever since the mysterious plague known as “The Laz”
hit the city of New London and turned thousands into walking
corpses. But while some of these zombies are mindless
monsters, hungry for human flesh, others can still think,
speak, reason, and control their ravenous new appetites. Just ask Nora Dearly, the young lady of means who was nearly
kidnapped by a band of sinister zombies but valiantly
rescued by a dashing young man . . . of the dead variety.
Nora and her savior, the young zombie soldier Bram Griswold,
fell hopelessly in love. But others feel only fear and
loathing for the reanimated dead. Now, as tensions grow
between pro- and anti-zombie factions, battle lines are
being drawn in the streets. And though Bram is no longer in
the New Victorian army, he and his ex-commando zombie
comrades are determined to help keep the peace. That means
taking a dangerous stand between The Changed, a radical
group of sentient zombies fighting for survival, and The
Murder, a masked squad of urban guerrillas hellbent on
destroying the living dead. But zombies aren’t the only ones
in danger: Their living allies are also in The Murder’s
crosshairs, and for one vengeful zealot, Nora Dearly is the
number one target. As paranoia, prejudice, and terrorist attacks threaten to
plunge the city into full-scale war, Nora’s scientist father
and his team continue their desperate race to unlock the
secrets of “The Laz” and find a cure. But their efforts may
be doomed when a mysterious zombie appears bearing an
entirely new strain of the virus—and the nation of New
Victoria braces for a new wave of the apocalypse. Lia Habel’s spellbinding, suspenseful sequel to Dearly,
Departed takes her imaginative mash-up of period romance,
futuristic thriller, and zombie drama to a whole new level
of innovative and irresistible storytelling.
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