Winner of the ABR Book Excellence Award Contest for Best Dystopian Fiction Novel.

Thirty years ago, a plague called the Splicer's Sickness spread across the world, shaping all it effects into rabid, half-animal beasts intent on contaminating every uninfected person they can find. The Old World fell, but a new one took its place.

Not everyone wants to accept the new order. Some are desperate to reestablish the status quo. Desperate enough to kidnap innocent people and subject them to inhuman experiments.

Enter Nessa Shirokuma and Karl Gearhart, who will stop at nothing to save Nessa's sister from such a monstrous fate. But the road is a long and perilous one, and only by relying on each other will they survive.

"The Deadlands by Minerva Hart is a brilliant, compelling and a one-of-a-kind action, adventure and post-apocalyptic story with just the right amount of romance to satisfy every reader." - Artistan Book Reviews