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It’s the end of the world, and zombies are real… my love life should be the least of my worries.
It all started with the Turning.Nine months ago, everything went to hell. An injectable medicine touted as humanity’s savior turned one-third of the United States into ravenous monsters whose only vulnerability is fire. They killed more than a half of us, leaving the rest a group of shell-shocked survivors.
All we do now is band together in individual communities, working to push back against the lurkers — hooded, hungry creatures that lurk in the dark, eager to take a bite — and make it another day. Resources are scarce, and there is no one to help us. The government abandoned us all to the creatures. Phone and television and the outside world… they don’t exist.
Or do they?
After a tragedy in my settlement has me eager to leave, I’m willing to do anything to escape. Enter Maverick Brooks. A stranger with a suicidal plan to go after the lurkers head-on, he arrives at the Grave, stoic and mysterious, and looking for volunteers.
Of course I raise my hand.
My dad isn’t happy that I offer to go. Neither is Chase, but that is understandable. He wants me to stay so that we can talk about the night that changed everything between us. Only I''' I can’t. We both need to forget it because there’s no way there can be anything between us at all.
Not when he was my dead twin’s fiancé.
Going on a dangerous mission with a stranger and killing as many monsters as I can in this dystopian world is a piece of cake compared to dealing with my love life…
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The lurkers come at dusk.
The creatures live in the shadows and despise the light. Hooded, pale and ravenous, they lurk on the edge of the remaining encampments and settlements that used to be the United States, just waiting for the chance to feed. Fire is the only thing that can kill them—but first you have to get close enough to strike a match.
Alexandra Holden has fought her fair share of lurkers since the world went to hell and one-third of the population transformed into ruthless monsters, killing more than a half of the survivors those first few dark days. But when her twin sister is struck down during a routine flaming, she can't bring herself to blame the lurkers alone. And while her father pretends everything will be okay and Chase, her sister's fiancé, has even started to forgive her for the accident that killed his love, Xandra knows it was all her fault. And she'll do anything to make the guilt—and the haunting memory of Hallie—go away.
Even if it means she has to partner up with the first stranger she's met in close to a year. Because when Maverick Brooks breaks into their camp, talking about a wild plan that will lead to the destruction of the largest nest of lurkers on the East Coast, Xandra decides she is going with him. Whether her father, Mav, or... anyone at all thinks she should.
What happens next is a journey through a world she thought she knew, where the lurkers are supposedly the biggest threat—but torn between two very different men, Xandra would rather face off against the monsters than deal with her emotions and her past.
Too bad she's not going to have any choice about that.
* Burn is a dystopian/zombie romance told in 1st person POV. This is Xandra's story, and while it seems like there is a love triangle, she knows exactly who she belongs with -- even if it's the rest of this new world that barely makes sense to her.
Genre: Science Fiction
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