num_pages: 470
description: Love can never die.Love conquers all so they say. But can Cupids 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 countrys 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 shes nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses. But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility shes suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting The Laz a fatal virus 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 theres 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 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.
language: English
title: Dearly, Departed
publisher: Del Rey