The In-Betweener

Book 1 of the Between Life and Death series

Two years ago a new medical nanite advance divided humanity into three types: humans, deaders and the frightening in-betweeners who crave human flesh. Emily's world has grown quiet and ordered, her day bounded by mornings killing deaders at her fence and nights alone in a warehouse office. She's begun to believe life will always be this way, days alone with the dead or fighting in-betweeners for her life. But even that life is better than the alternative.

Everything changes when one of the deaders at the gate isn't a deader at all. He's an in-betweener different from any Emily has seen before...and he has a message.

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The Between Life and Death series is suitable for ages 16 and up, with occasional violence and mild language.

Genre
zombiescience fictionhorrorpost-apocalypticdystopia
Audience
young adult
Length
short · 191 pages

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