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Vampires are just zombies with good PR.
Del Rey
September 2011
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Featuring: Nora Dearly; Bram Griswold; Pamela Roe
480 pages
ISBN: 0345523318
EAN: 9780345523310
Kindle: B004J4XA2I
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy Steampunk | Young Adult Science Fiction | Young Adult Paranormal
Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow
pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the
undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in
the arms of a dashing zombie? The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech
nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an
antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far
more interested in military history and her country’s
political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls.
But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the
mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing
spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune, and now
plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate
could be more horrible—until she’s nearly kidnapped by an
army of walking corpses.
But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from
her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning
down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad
commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal disease that
raises the dead—and hell along with them. Hardly ideal
circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young
soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But
as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit,
luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his
mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of
trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there’s no turning
back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win,
separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then,
beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.
In Dearly, Departed, steampunk meets romance meets walking-
dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-
roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre
comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.
Comments
2 comments posted.
Re: Dearly, Departed
Wow! This is on my wishlist!
(Carla Carlson 1:53am November 15, 2011)
I love this whole concept! What a fun book this will be to read. It's now at the
top of my Wish List. Thanks for the wonderful review and synopsis.
(Connie Fischer 7:58pm November 15, 2011)
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