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A USA Today bestseller Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award - Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel - A Bram Stoker Award Nominee - One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of the Year - An Indie Next Pick "This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight."--Stephen Graham JonesA provocative and unforgettable debut that is both a blood-soaked love letter to Los Angeles and a gleeful send-up to iconic horror villains, Maeve Fly will thrill fans of slashers and the macabre. By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child's favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes. But when Gideon Green - her best friend's brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet. Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it's Maeve's turn with the knife. "An apocalyptic Anaheim Psycho." --Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House Also by CJ Leede: American Rapture

The instant USA Today bestseller from CJ Leede, author of Maeve Fly--a scorching and sweeping new novel about the end of the world as we know it. "A blistering, feverish ride through a uniquely American apocalypse."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author Named one of the Best Horror Books of 2024 (Esquire, Vulture, Paste, ScreenRant, and Literary Hub) - A GoodReads and Publishers Weekly Editors' Pick - An Indie Next Pick - A Splatterpunk Award Finalist A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while the world around her burns. Along the way she discovers there are far worse fates than dying a virgin... The end times are coming. Also by CJ Leede: Maeve Fly

Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can't. Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it's his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he's summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago, with a chilling message: it's happening again. Seemingly innocent people are waking up on the side of the highway, with no memory of how they got there, wearing the skin of victims they've allegedly never met. And they each share one haunting detail: a strand of a stranger's hair is tied around their tongue. Now Daniel is pulled back into the gruesome cycle, and every clue leads him deeper into the shadows of his own past. He will have to confront the ghosts of his traumatic childhood and face what's been hunting him all along-- before he and the people he loves become the next victims. Perfect for fans of The Shining and Longlegs, bestselling author CJ Leede's Headlights is a pulse-pounding hunt across the frozen wilderness of Colorado. Also by CJ Leede: American Rapture Maeve Fly

"From CJ Leede, the author of Maeve Fly, comes a scorching new apocalyptic novel. American Gods meets The Last of Us in this epic and sweeping story about the end of the world as we know it. A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while the world around her burns. Along the way she discovers there are far worse fates than dying a virgin... The end times are coming."