Reclamation

Katherine It’s been sixteen years since her life was turned upside down. Sixteen years since a botched medicine and the flesh-eating bacteria created a pandemic, unlike anything the world had ever seen. The dead began to walk. To run. And like all things that move, they needed sustenance. The flesh of the living had sustained them, and it was like Hell had risen and walked the Earth. Survival for Katherine came at the cost of blood, sweat, and tears, but in the end, she’d made it. She and her lovers had made it. But life wasn’t easy. Not when Katherine found out she was pregnant in the midst of the apocalypse, and not when she was bitten by one of the Sightless, changing both her life and that of her unborn child, forever. Hope Sixteen years old, and death is what she’s always known. It literally walks around her, seeking out the flesh of the ones she loves— like sharks drawn to blood. But not her. She’s different from the others; Her hearing, sense of smell, all enhanced, and her parents have trained her to use those senses to ensure no one ever takes advantage of her. But there are some things they can’t teach, let alone understand. While the dead may not seek her out to make her their next meal, they still seek her out. And when they do, they listen and obey her every command. Two women, two entwined lives, and they’re going to face a new journey. Times have changed, the world has changed, and with it, the Sightless aren’t the only things to fear anymore. It’s the unseen that poses the greatest risk now, and when the cough starts, the time you have left starts to tick away. With the fever, you’re halfway there, and when you see the blood, you’re at Death’s door. So, when the cough starts too close to home, their only chance to survive is in Washington DC. Almost seven hundred miles from home.