Deadrush — Yvonne Navarro

Born of the twisted faith of a teenage boy in a backwoods Georgia church, a new addiction is carried to the brutal streets of Chicago. In a dark alley, on a steamy June night, the fifth victim of a serial killer rises from the dead as its first initiate. Unable to resist her dark new desire, trapped by her own body and perverse yearning, she is alive but not alive, dead but not undead - forced by the raging call inside to spread the. . . deadrushAcross a landscape of urban violence, the contagion passes from hand to hand, flesh to flesh, predator to prey. One by one, its unwilling victims return to live again-only to discover a craving that is not to be denied. Soon they learn the terrible truth of their rebirth: there is no life after death ... only hunger.***Praise for deadrushA delicate tapestry of bizarre images and intriguing characters. - Poppy Z. BriteNavarro does the near impossible of reviving one of the oldest themes-the curse of the undead-by making it fresh, frightening, and uncomfortably relevant... - Stanley Wiater deadrushis the Pulp Fiction of dark suspense, and Yvonne Navarro is who comes after Clive Barker. From page one, deadrushhad a death grip on me. I loved it. - Nancy HolderThe voice of horror has a new cutting edge. Yvonne Navarro places a fresh blood-wet shine on tarnished and familiar themes. Things still do go bump in the night, and there just may be a monster under the bed after all... - Kevin J. AndersonFrom the horrifying birth in the beginning to its dark echo at the end, Navarro never lets the reader draw an easy breath. Solid, believable characters-alive and dead-make deadrusha roller coaster ride from beginning to end. Not for the squeamish, deadrush is the work of a writer we'll be seeing more of. - Gary Brandner Yvonne Navarro's novel deadrushis in itself a non-stop, obsessive rush. The characters, both dead and alive, are hurled through a nightmarish world in which an addiction stronger than any drug is unleashed, and the reader can only hold on for the ride. The story is pure, terrifying pleasure! - Elizabeth MassieYvonne Navarro fulfills the promise shown in her debut, with a novel even richer in complexity, character, and horrors both natural and unnatural. deadrushwalks a compelling line along the borders of life and death, and the eerie gray regions between. - Brian Hodgedeadrushis deliciously nasty. Navarro uses richly textured detail to conjure up haunting visual images, some of which will stay with me for a long, long time. - Elizabeth Engstrom