The Secret Lives of Zombie Wives

by Barbara Truelove

Genres: Women's Fiction; Post-Apocalyptic sci-fi

Synopsis

The Secret Lives of Zombie Wives is a horror novella that combines the perfect intersection between trad wives on Instagram and #girldinner. Both funny and fleshy, it unravels the layers of domestic perfection demanded of women to get to the rotten heart of societal expectations.

Patricia is a reformed zombie.

She’s also an influencer—the wholesome, homey, traditional values kind—a career built up with the help of her husband, Ralph. Cooking, shopping, and hanging out with her friends; most days, it’s easy to forget she’s even dead, so long as she takes her antifungal medication. But when a zombie horde starts approaching her fenced community, Patricia comes face to face with memories of an era of her life she thought she’d left behind.

Perhaps life with overbearing Ralph isn’t quite as perfect as she’d hoped, and maybe everyone kind of has the wrong idea about the zombie horde—they’re not frightening, they’re beautiful to Patricia, and they prompt her to embrace her true, authentic self.

Unfortunately for Ralph, this involves eating his brain on livestream.

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Release date: February 2, 2027

Publisher: Tor Publishing Group

Print pages: 160