The Undead War
Middle Grade Horror
Searching for the truth of her community’s experience during the war with the undead leads a girl to believe they are on the brink of another outbreak in this post-apocalyptic middle grade novel.
Kyle Woodward has never seen a reaper—the Undead War ended before she was born. But every aspect of her life has been shaped by them.
Kyle was raised in a remote compound built for survival and taught to guard against the reaper threat, even while being taught reapers no longer exist. When rumors of new reaper sightings begin to spread, Kyle grows frustrated by her community’s silence and her parents’ refusal to talk about the war. Guided by the gut feeling that there’s more to the story, Kyle decides to document her community’s history and the war that defined it. But the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the secrets she uncovers.
If the truth is being buried on purpose, Kyle might be the only one who can expose it. Because if her community refuses to face what nearly destroyed the world once, they might be standing on the edge of the apocalypse all over again.
About Damara
Born and raised in snowy Central New York, Damara lives with her immeasurably supportive (and patient) husband, her 14-year-old daughter, 4 cats, and a dog. When she’s not writing or vacuuming up cat hair, she enjoys watching horror movies, Halloween, crafting, and traveling. Damara has been writing for most of her life, starting with illustrated stories as a kid, graduating to fanfic when she was a little older, to full-blown novels as a teenager and young adult.
Her dreams of becoming a published author were pushed to the side for career and family, but she rediscovered her love of writing during the pandemic, when she wrote her first "real" novel for her daughter. After some encouragement from family and friends, she decided to pursue traditional publishing, and landed an agent, Emily S. Keyes of the Keyes Agency, LLC.