Dust

Joan Frances Turner was born in Rhode Island and grew up in the Calumet region of northwest Indiana. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, she lives near the Indiana Dunes with her family and a garden fill of tiger lilies. Dust is her first novel and she is writing the follow up Frail. Follow her on twitter @violetinbloom

After she was buried, Jessie awoke and tore through the earth to arise, reborn, as a zombie. Jessie's gang is the Fly-by-Nights. She loves the ancient, skeletal Florian and his memories of time gone by. She's in love with Joe, a maggot-infested corpse. They fight, hunt, dance together as one-something humans can never understand. There are dark places humans have learned to avoid, lest they run into the zombie gangs. 
 
But now, Jessie and the Fly-by-Nights have seen new creatures in the woods-things not human and not zombie. A strange new illness has flamed up out of nowhere, causing the undeads to become more alive and the living to exist on the brink of death. As bits and pieces of the truth fall around Jessie, like the flesh off her bones, she'll have to choose between looking away or staring down the madness-and hanging onto everything she has come to know as life . . .

Joan Frances Turner

A thoughtful, poignant, and frightening book about the undead

A nail-bitingly good Zombie romp . . . a cut above the rest

Amber Benson, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Since a devastating, morphing plague swept through human and zombie populations, almost everyone who survived is an 'ex' these days. Ex-human. Ex-zombie. Both creatures crave flesh, have the strength and speed of predators - and what seems like immortality. Pierced skin and broken bones mend, but their all-consuming hunger never dies . . . 
 
Amy is the only purely human survivor from town - a frail. Her mother is gone, but she won't believe that she's dead. Feral dogs stalk her, in reality and in her imagination. Amy thinks she's losing her mind. But when an ex-human named Lisa saves her life, a fragile friendship forms, a bond that will save Amy over and over again when she and Lisa are abducted into a makeshift community run by exes who use humans as their slaves. 
 
For a girl who is used to going it alone, trusting anyone isn't easy, but Amy will have to. She has secrets from her past she can't afford to face by herself, and secrets in her future that will cost her just about everything - including her humanity . . .

Joan Frances Turner

Praise for Frail

A new and unique take on zombies

A thoughtful, poignant, and frightening book about the undead

A nail-bitingly good Zombie romp . . . a cut above the rest

A new and unique take on zombies

A thoughtful, poignant, and frightening book about the undead

A nail-bitingly good Zombie romp . . . a cut above the rest

A new and unique take on zombies

A thoughtful, poignant, and frightening book about the undead

A nail-bitingly good Zombie romp . . . a cut above the rest

Books by Joan Frances Turner

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