Finally, to John Mawer and Xanthe, for giving me the best reason in the world to survive the zombie apocalypse.
KIRSTY MCKAY, born in the UK, now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband and their young daughter. Undead is her debut novel; she is currently finishing its sequel, Unfed. Visit her website at www.kirstymckay.com and follow her on Twitter @kirkybean.
Text copyright © 2012 by Kirsty McKay
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McKay, Kirsty.
Undead / Kirsty McKay. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Summary: On a school trip to snowbound Scotland, several students become infected and turn into hungry zombies, leaving a small band of survivors to take refuge in the school bus.
ISBN 978-0-545-38188-8
[1. Zombies — Fiction. 2. Survival — Fiction. 3. Horror stories — Fiction. 4. Scotland — Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M47865748Un 2012
[Fic]—dc23
20110449431
First American edition, September 2012
The display type was set in Alisal Bold.
Cover design by Phil Falco
eISBN 978-0-545-47346-0
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