Walled
R. L. Monty
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 7, 2018)
Being strong in the face of danger doesn't mean you have to forget who you are on the inside. When the food supply hits a critical level, one family has to go. Five years ago when the zombie virus struck, 12-year-old Emma Newberry’s town built walls to protect itself. Since then, it’s been nothing but a competition to prove yourself worthy to live there. And Emma’s family can’t compete, mostly because they’re pacifists who won’t even kill zombies. With resources dwindling fast, the town’s motto, “for the good of the community,” has quickly come to mean: ration incentives to turn each other in, food deductions, usefulness tallies, and the harsh reality that, every once in a while, one family has to go. And it’s always the family seen as the least useful to the community. But Emma and her seven-year-old sister have been having dreams that the zombies need their help. So when a zombie stumbles into town, Emma starts to question whether her dreams are somehow real, and her town is hiding a secret about the zombies. But she’d better figure things out fast. It’s time for another family to go, and it’s the Newberrys. Emma’s family has one week left in their walled town.