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The Secret Lives of Zombie Wives

By: Barbara Truelove
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The Secret Lives of Zombie Wives is an unhinged horror novella creating the perfect intersection between trad wives and girl dinners, where Shaun of the Dead meets Martha Stewart.

Patricia is a reformed zombie.

She’s also an influencer—the wholesome, homey, traditional values kind—a career built up with the help of her husband, Ralph. Cooking, shopping, and hanging out with her friends; most days, it’s easy to forget she’s even dead, so long as she takes her antifungal medication. But when a zombie horde starts approaching her fenced community, Patricia comes face to face with memories of an era of her life she thought she’d left behind.

Perhaps life with overbearing Ralph isn’t quite as perfect as she’d hoped, and maybe everyone kind of has the wrong idea about the zombie horde—they’re not frightening, they’re beautiful to Patricia, and they prompt her to embrace her true, authentic self.

Unfortunately for Ralph, this involves eating his brain on livestream.

Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Women's Fiction
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Critic reviews

“Patricia is mother; Patricia eats and leaves no crumbs. I devoured The Secret Lives of Zombie Wives in a single sitting and couldn’t be more satisfied.”- Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Dinner

“An ode to hunger and female rage like nothing I've ever read before.”—Cassandra Khaw, bestselling author of The Library at Hellebore

"Deliciously subversive!"–New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rozakis

“A perfectly timed, perfectly executed howl of rage against the expectations to act like everything’s normal, when in fact we want to rip things apart. Truelove has given us an enthralling novella that's probing and biting.”—Nat Cassidy, USA Today bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home

"Like if George Romero wrote The Brady Bunch and set it in a suburb on the edge of an apocalyptic wasteland. By turns funny and terrifying, Barbara Truelove tells undead Patricia’s story with insight and compassion.”—Richard Kadrey, co-author of The Dead Take the A Train

“An emotional gut punch ensconced in deliciously dark humor and expert world building, this novella is an unmissable morsel of modern horror.”—Liz Kerin, author of Night’s Edge

“Here's Gloria Steinem's The Last of Us. Here's The Walking Dead Housewives. Here's a succulent slice of feminist fungal fury that we can all tear our teeth into. You'll be grinning between bloody gulps, trust me.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Mr. Lonelyhearts

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