ShadesOfBlood are back - and they're getting competitive! Cover by @MagmaKepner - thanks Maggie!

Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toronto's a lot further away than it used to be. Clio suggests that Okie transport Sumatra across the border, because family is family. But coaching Okie by cellphone isn't easy, and Clio has some zombies of her own to contend with. Luckily she has some garden tools. Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood team up for this unusual two-hander. Encompassing love, death, sex, and the meaning of family, The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home will surprise, delight, and convince you of the vital importance of keeping ready supplies of rhubarb and mini-wieners in your freezer at all times. The story unfolds beginning October 24.

'She has dropped a stone in the sea; it is too late to wonder what damage the waves will cause.' Aged eight, Branwen Harwood was the only daughter of a minor family. Now she lives at the High Palace, among the queen's ladies. She is the sister of First Commander Dewi Harwood. She is married to Lord Ranulph Clare, one of the kingdom's most powerful men. And she is Queen Cerys' closest friend. But a rise like this does not come without making enemies, those who question her hold on the queen and kingdom. And when war comes to the kingdom, Branwen makes a crucial mistake; she pleads for mercy for a childhood friend - who is not only not her husband, but who is lowborn. Starved of scandal and desperate for any distraction from the battles in the north, the women of the court seize the story. Branwen finds herself the object of attention in a way she never has been before. She expects it to pass. She's wrong. Her enemies are massing, emerging from the High Palace's tapestries and gardens, and among them are people who would stop at nothing to see her pulled back down to where she began, if not lower...