Daphne Press

The Secret Lives of Zombie Wives

February 2027

Annie Bot meets What Moves the Dead in this biting satire of trad wives and (dead) girl dinners, perfect for fans of C. J. Leede and Gretchen Felker-Martin in this gory zombie horror.

Patricia is a reformed zombie.

She’s also an influencer—the wholesome, homey, traditional values kind—with a career built up due to 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.

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Barbara Truelove

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Barbara Truelove is an Australian author and game designer. She writes about werewolves and sometimes other things including but not limited to vampires, zombies, and sentient space ships. She's worked as a television production assistant, a hotel receptionist, and a kindergarten teacher. She started writing when she was nine years old and believes it’s too late to break the habit now.

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