As if keeping house and raising two spirited kids weren’t work enough, Kate Connor just took on a new job … and it comes with a terrible benefits package.

Out of retirement and back in the demon-slaying game, it’s up to her to keep her family, her city, and—yeah—pretty much the entire world safe from an evil uprising.

When the 9th Duke of Sudeleigh discovers that his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, is the clandestine author of a scandalous editorial, he hatches a plan to bring the feisty young woman to heel. He will secretly send her off to an arranged marriage so that she might better concentrate her efforts on hearth and home instead of the spreading of contrary ideas.

From the #1 bestselling author of the Dark-Hunters comes an all new tale her fans have been waiting almost two decades to read. A post-apocalyptic tale unlike any you ever seen:

The virus ran swiftly on the hot summer breeze. Unseen. Unheard. Unknown. It swept through the entire earth in a matter of months, having mercy on no one. Young—old—it didn’t matter.