Where the Dead Are Gentle
Juniper Vale has kept four of her mother's five rules since she was twelve. Don't run. Don't bleed. Don't scream. Count everything. The fifth one - come home - is the one she's still working on.
She goes over the wall because her brother can't breathe and the medicine ran out two winters ago. She comes back because something in a dead pharmacy on Cutler Street kills six of them to save her - and then apologises with its hands.
His name is Ezra Locke. He has been dead four springs. He can't speak, so he writes: in a green notebook, in handwriting that steadies as it goes, like a man remembering how. He has been clearing the road to her gate every night for three years, and she never knew.
He is cold. He is patient. He is unbearably careful with her. And he is slipping, in a way nobody has ever come back from.
Loving him will cost her everything her valley has ever been certain about. Because eight hundred people behind that wall have spent six years agreeing on exactly one thing - that there is nothing behind the eyes - and June has looked, and something looked back.
The only thing that can save him is ninety miles north, where her mother went six years ago and never returned.
Book One of The HushA slow-burn, aching, closed-door romance set at the end of the world - for readers of Warm Bodies, The Girl With All the Gifts and Shatter Me, and for everyone who ever wanted the monster to be handed a pencil.
Content note: apocalyptic violence, grief, chronic illness, and a great deal of longing. High romantic tension, no explicit content - suitable for teen and adult readers alike.
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