
How to keep things fresh! And interesting! And exciting! But with characters who feel real and flawed and stories that surprise.” “Isn’t that the question we all stay up until late in the night pondering? Okay, maybe not, but it is one of the many questions I constantly struggle with. “How do you keep the zombie apocalypse interesting?” Ireland asks. 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.īalzer + Bray will release Deathless Divide on February 4th, but you can start reading today! We’re excited to share an exclusive excerpt from the novel as well as a note from Ireland to her readers. 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. Katherine Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. 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. 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. 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.

And based on the description, it sounds like another thrilling epic (spoilers for Dread Nation ahead):Īfter 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. The sequel, Deathless Divide, picks up immediately after the first book.

The result is a thrilling YA saga following Jane McKeene, a teen who is trained to protect the wealthy from the undead. Her 2018 novel Dread Nation imagines an alternate history for the U.S., one in which the “Native and Negro Reeducation Act requires certain children attend combat schools” in the apocalyptic aftermath. Would the rise of zombies have derailed the Civil War? Justina Ireland thinks so.
