Deadland's Harvest (29 page)

Rachel Aukes is the bestselling author of 100 Days in Deadland, which was named one of the best books of 2013 b
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Suspense Magazin
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and one of the best zombie books by th
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Huffington Post
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She also writes romance under the pen name Berinn Rae, including Stealing Fate, a 
USA Toda
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recommended read. Rachel lives in Iowa with her husband and an incredibly spoiled sixty-pound lap dog
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When not writing, she can be found flying old airplanes and trying (not so successfully) to prepare for the zombie apocalypse. 

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With many thanks:

To my editor, Stephanie Riva, for taking a decent story and making it so much better.

To Glenda Moleski for working miracles. I couldn’t have done it without you.

To my husband
for hanging in there through all the crazy times.

To Sarah Lyons Fleming for your genius and humor.

To Al Rowell for the fantastic help and great ideas.

To Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Michael Koogler, Amber Schmidt, and Linda Tooch for the helping out on the ugly first draft.

To the Bards of Badassery—Elle J Rossi, Cynthia Valero, and Beth Ciotta—for keeping me from falling off that cliff.

And especially to all those making sacrifices to keep our world safe.

Copyright 2014 Rachel Aukes

Surprisingly Adequate Publishing

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved.

Kindle Edition: May 2014

Edited by Stephanie Riva – RivaReading.com

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Cover image (soldiers) © Adrian Hillman – Fotolia.com

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