Blood and Picket Fences
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Last published Sun, Jun 5, 2022
Karoline Kraus thought the summer of her 17th birthday would be pretty close to perfect, a time for her to finally uncover her family's past and get in a significant amount of travel. What's not for a girl to love? Daughter to a famous author Karoline is used to a well-placed twist, just not in her real life. So, when the dead begin to rise and it is painfully clear life will never be the same, Karoline is left with the daunting task of staying alive in a world that seems determined to want her dead. Grayson Kessler has spent most of his teen years pining after his next-door neighbor and best friend Karoline Kraus. So when she declares to him she's going to be gone all summer finding her roots in Germany he pretty much wrote off the summer. Living in a small town in south Florida, Grayson spends most of his days helping his father at Temple, or hiding at the library with fellow book enthusiast Tansy O'Brien. The last thing he was expecting was an urgent call from his mother at Nicklaus Children's Hospital telling him the dead are rising up in the streets. Not that it mattered, all he had to do was look out the window to see she was right.
Aided by Gray's Rabbi father, the three must set out on a dauntless journey of self discovery as they face the dead and the harsh reality of this new world in a desperate attempt to reach the Coral Cove high school safe zone.
(Look forward to seeing them in Unaccompanied Minors book 1: Residuum)
(Plus I'd really appreciate feedback!)
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