Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

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Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It’s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expectations.

But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished 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 much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.

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File Name:dread-nation-by-justina-ireland.epub
Original Title:Dread Nation
Creator:Justina Ireland
Language:en
Identifier:9780062570628
Publisher:HarperCollins
Date:2018-01-29
File Size:1.070 MB

Table of Content

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Dedication
4. Contents
5. A Prologue: In Which I Am Born and Someone Tries to Murder Me
6. Part One: The Civilized East

Chapter 1: In Which I Am Found Lacking
Chapter 2: In Which I Look the Fool
Chapter 3: In Which I Relate My First Encounter with a Shambler
Chapter 4: In Which I Dodge Unwanted Advances and Engage in a Bit of Blackmail
Chapter 5: In Which I Attend a Very Educational Lecture
Chapter 6: In Which All Hell Breaks Loose
Chapter 7: In Which I Receive Invitations Both Expected and Unexpected
Chapter 8: In Which I Relate the Circumstances Surrounding My Departure from Rose Hill Plantation
Chapter 9: In Which I Have an Accomplice and We Skulk in the Shadows
Chapter 10: In Which I Receive an Unwelcome Invitation and Am Forced to Accept It
Chapter 11: In Which I Remember Rose Hill and My Momma’s Sworn Enemy
Chapter 12: In Which I Become an Unwilling Co-conspirator
Chapter 13: In Which I Attend a Rather Eventful Dinner
Chapter 14: In Which I Go Snooping
Chapter 15: In Which My Fate Is Decided