New York Times bestseller * 6 starred reviews

At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland’s stunning eyesight of the America both foreign and familiar-a country for the brink, at the explosive crossroads where competition, humanity, and success meet.

Jane McKeene was created two days prior to the dead started to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-derailing the Battle Between the Claims and changing the nation forever.

Within this new America, safety for everyone about Dread Nation depends on the work of a few, and laws and regulations like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend fight schools to understand to place down the dead.

But there’s also opportunities-and Jane is studying to be an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It’s a opportunity for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even becoming the daughter of a rich white Southern girl could conserve her from society’s expectations.

But that isn’t a existence Jane wants. Almost completed with her education at Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay out much mind towards the politics of the eastern metropolitan areas, with their talk of returning America towards the glory of its times before the inactive rose.

But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one which finds her inside a desperate combat for her lifestyle against some powerful enemies.

And the restless dead, it could seem, are the least of her problems.