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YA Historical Fantasy: What if the Civil War was derailed by the undead

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hard-hitting advice

What Will doesn't know is that the promise he made to his little girl might be harder to keep than he imagined

Mara must navigate a war fought in the shadows

no excuses

ambition and dubious sense of morality kept him in the thick of political intrigue

As the big day approaches

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