num_pages: 496
description: Can the living coexist with the living dead? Thats 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 arent the only ones in danger: Their living allies are also in The Murders 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 Noras 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 virusand the nation of New Victoria braces for a new wave of the apocalypse. Lia Habels 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.
language: English
title: Dearly, Beloved
publisher: Del Rey