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The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America.After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother.But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880s America.What's more, this safe haven is not what it appears - as Jane discovers when she sees familiar faces from Summerland amid this new society. Caught between mysteries and lies, the undead, and her own inner demons, Jane soon finds herself on a dark path of blood and violence that threatens to consume her.But she won't be in it alone.Katherine Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. But after the hell she has endured, she knows friends are hard to come by - and that Jane needs her too, whether Jane wants to admit it or not.Watching Jane's back, however, is more than she bargained for, and when they both reach a breaking point, it's up to Katherine to keep hope alive - even as she begins to fear that there is no happily-ever-after for girls like her.



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Justina Ireland

Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide (Balzer Bray/HarperCollins) , the middle-grade novels Star Wars, Flight of the Falcon: Lando's Luck and Spark of the Resistance, a Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm Books) , and the fantasy young adult novels Vengeance Bound and Promise of Shadows (both Simon and Schuster) . Her short science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in the anthologies A Phoenix First Must Burn (Viking BFYR) , Feral Youth (Simon and Schuster) , Black Enough (Balzer Bray/HarperCollins) , Three Sides of a Heart (HarperCollins) , and online at Vox.com. She is a former editor in chief of FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award. She holds a BA in History from Armstrong Atlantic State University (now Georgia Southern) and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. Her forthcoming book, Ophie's Ghosts, will be available May 2021.



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