Keep together. Keep your eyes open. Keep your wits about you. The desert is unkind in the best of times. And the decade since the Civil War has been anything but the best of times for Daisy Wilcox--call her Willie--and her family. This tense, heart-pounding alternate history about a young woman fig
Devils Unto Dust
โ Scribed by Emma Berquist
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 224 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0062642782
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Keep together. Keep your eyes open. Keep your wits about you.
The desert is unkind in the best of times. And the decade since the Civil War has been anything but the best of times for Daisy Wilcox--call her Willie--and her family. This tense, heart-pounding alternate history about a young woman fighting to survive the unthinkable will keep fans of Westworld and The Walking Dead reading late into the night.
A horrifying sickness has spread across the West Texas desert. Infected people--shakes--attack the living, and the surviving towns are only as safe as their perimeter walls are strong. The state is all but quarantined from the rest of the country. Glory, Texas, is a near ghost town. Still, seventeen-year-old Willie has managed to keep her siblings safe, even after the sickness took their mother. But then her good-for-nothing father steals a fortune from one of the most merciless shake hunters in town, and Willie is left on the hook for his...
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